Development of Culture in Weimar Germany (1924-1929) By Seb, Will and Connor

What did the culture include? Literature Architecture Science Music Art Theatre Cinema

How did these things change both positively and negatively

Cinema Expressionism Fritz Lang (director) Marlene dietrich/gretta garbo (actresses) “dr mabuse, the gambler” “metropolis” Robert wiene’s “the cabinet of dr. caligari” (1919) F.W. murnau’s “nosferatu” (1922) “the blue angel”

literature Modernism Thomas Mann won a Nobel prize in literature in 1929 Bertolt Brecht Erich maria remarque “Disorder and early sorrow” All quiet on the western front Literature affected by 1st world war-all is quiet on the western front

theatre Cabaret Piscator-wartime experience Reinhardt Christopher Isherwood Josephine Baker

Did these changes affect all groups in society the same?

sciences Einstein Freud Jung Institute of social research (the “frankfurt school”) Humboldt university

art Dadaism –painting movement of dada style (nonsense and anti-bourgeois sentiment) Collage, photo montage, assemblage-new art techniques Grosz Paul Klee and the “Blue Riders” –critisised middle-class conservatives Otto Dix – famous modernist portraits and sought to capture feeling by depicting his subjects with brutal honesty Expressionism Artists interpret world through their eyes 1920s berlin replaces Paris as the world centre of modern art

architecture Bauhaus Gropius Ernst May and Bruno Taut

music Atonal Music Alban Berg Arnold Schoenberg Kurt Weill Jazz and ragtime