AtoZ Challenge 2019 – Theme Reveal (Berliner Cabaret) In 1920s Germany, cabaret had a chance to express people’s feelings in that excessive, shockingly honest way that was so particular to Berlin, the town that was becoming a Weltstaadt. A cosmopolis.
Founded in the 1870s to protect the Catholic minority, the Zentrum was part of the government coalition for most of the history of the Weimar Republic, but was never a true supporter.
There’s no doubt that the generation of Weimar was formed by WWI. The young people who fought in the trenches thought their elders, their parents, their fathers and mothers, could not understand what that meant.
A symbol of good luck and well-being for thousends of years, in the XX century in Europe the swastika took up a completely new meaning
In the 1920s, German women embraced the freedom women were exploring in the Western World. Maybe more, and for this they were often considered unpatriotic
Veterans were a strong public presence in the Weimar Republic. A total of 1.4 million disabled veterans came back from war and the republic provided them, though veteran generally didn’t support the Weimar Republic
One of the most speculated matters in the history of the Weimar Republic is whether it would have weathered the hard crises of the Great Depression, and so resist the rise of the Nazi, if all forces had been more united. Disunity – both true and perceived – was indeed a characteristic of the Weimar…
Often described as punitive to Germany, the Treaty of Versailles failed to create the base for long-lasting, solid peace in Europe
In spite of the perceived failure of the Weimar Republic, the SPD – which is identified with it – actually achieved many liberal laws and provisions that meant inclusion for a lot of society sections previously cut off form Germany’s political life.
The Reichswehr, the German republican army, was always a state in the state, a strong power inside the Weimar government. Maybe it wasn’t realy an enemy of the republic, but certainly it never supported its liberal regime.
Berlin has been a queer-friendly city for well over a hundred year. During the Weimar time, the policing tolerance had allowed the creation of a community that lived almost in the open
Over the whole XIX century, the Western World in its entirety had been moving in the same direction: away from the countryside into the cities, away from a rural lifestyle into industrialization and generally into a more inclusive, if maybe more lonely society. Germany had been inside that general flow.