Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic from 1923 to 1929, at the General Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva. (Wikimedia Commons). If the object of learning history is ...

The title of Katja Hoyer’s book is, and is not, misleading. It might appear to be a history of the Weimar Republic, the successor to the Second Reich, which took its name from the assembly that met ...

The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both emphasize Germany’s ...

During the Weimar Republic, an art movement that looked at the nation with a cool eye developed in Germany. Labeled Neue Sachlichkeit-- new objectivity -- it reflected the resignation and cynicism of ...

Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: a Retrospective Retrieval -- Agendas of Surface and Simulacrum -- Weimar Surfaces Now -- Tactility in the City -- Exhibiting Superficies -- ...

Combining the study of film, history, social movements, psychopathology and art, ‘Weimar Film and Culture’ presents a portrait of Germany at its moment of greatest cultural crisis: between WWI and ...

Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival begins this weekend with two concerts featuring Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. One of the many ...

Flapper girls and Nazi stormtroopers, prostitutes and proletarians, jazz troupes and jackboots — when the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” arrived on U.S. Netflix in January, so did all these Weimar ...