Examines intellectual life in the Weimar Republic, looks at paintings, caricatures, dance, architecture, and films, and discusses the Nazi rise to power.
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Weimar's golden epoch gave us Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, but it also spawned countless trashy novels and military memoirs. The era that produced Fritz Lang's Metropolis also saw the Berlin film industry founder in financial woes, shamelessly copying Hollywood and turning out kitsch. In this revealing study, two East German theater historians present the downside of glittering Weimar. Mocking Germany's importation of American jazz, the authors point out that "grotesque misunderstandings" bedeviled German music into the mid-1920s. They bring to light experimental radio, Dada pranks, political theater and progressive educational projects, all of which seem like islands of cultural innovation sinking in a sea of schlock. Among the 222 illustrations are posters, woodcuts, film stills, theater sets and pictures of the era's symbols like the Graf Zeppelin airship and the Bauhaus.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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First published in 1987 in the German Democratic Republic, this work presents us with a fresh and provocative chronicle of Germany from the aftermath of the First World War to the beginning of the Third Reich. Using a wealth of original documentation and little-known illustrations, the authors illuminatefrom an East European perspectivethe political, social, and cultural life of an era as turbulent as it was contradictory. The translation reads very well. Essential for students and scholars of European cultural history. Ulrike S. Rettig, Wellesley Coll., Mass.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Okay, but not enough about New Objectivity,
By Art and Music Guy (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Golden Twenties: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republic (Paperback)
This book focuses much of its space upon theater, performance and popular culture. For its comprehensiveness, the authors should be applauded, but I truly wish more could have been done with German Magic Realism, called New Objectivity.
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