Week 9 The Golden Years of Weimar Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt,

Weimar Culture High vs. Low Culture Mass culture and the Avant-Garde Clash of values and new expectations The Individual vs. the Collective Social tensions and class stability Mass Consumption & Modernisation Technology and its repercussions

Avant-Garde Movements Bruno Taut’s Glass Pavilion

The First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920

Dadaism

Expressionist Architecture The Einstein Tower in Potsdam ( ), designed by Erich Mendelsohn The Chilehaus in Hamburg ( ), designed by Fritz Höger

Expressionist Film Scenes from Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920) Nosferatu (1922), directed by F. W. Murnau The ‘Tower of Babel’ from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

Expressionist Theatre Ernst Toller, Die Wandlung (Transformation, 1919). George Kaiser, Die Koralle (1917), Gas (1918) & Gas II (1920). The director and impressario Max Reinhardt ( ) did much to popularize an Expressionist aesthetic in the theatre of the Weimar Republic

Union of Art and Technology

Bauhaus,

Bauhaus, Dessau

Social Critique in the Arts

Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity Otto Dix Skat Players 1920

Großstadt (Metropolis) Triptych ( ) by Otto Dix Life in the Big City

The Pillars of the Establishment (1926) by George GroszThree Whores (1926) by Otto Dix

Industriebauen (1920) by Georg Scholz and Deutsche Familie (1932) by Adolf Uzarski Satires of Middle Class Life

Mass Culture and Entertainment

Der Blaue Engel / The Blue Angel, 1930 Directed by Joseph von Sternberg Starred Emil Jannings & Marlene Dietrich The sexually liberated woman!

Metropolis, 1927 Directed by Fritz Lang Heady embrace of technology and the machine world alongside its threat to humanity The logical conclusion: harmonization of labor and capital

Revue Nègre

Josephine Baker

Tiller Girls

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, 1936

Book Review Due: Monday in Lecture, Week 1, Term 2 You may choose any book that is at least 200 pages and has been published since the year The purpose of a book review is to provide a summary of the work, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, and, most importantly, present your overall assessment of the work. Towards this assessment, you should discuss one or more of the following: the book’s audience, its usefulness (for scholars, students, the general public), and its contribution to the field.

Sample Book Review Available on Jstor: Hannah Schissler, “Review: Rebuilding West German Society: A Gendered View”, Reviewed work: Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany by Robert G. Moeller Central European History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (1993), pp Linda Gordon, “Review: Nazi Feminists?”, Reviewed work: Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz Feminist Review, No. 27 (Autumn, 1987), pp on%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dlinda%2Bgordon%2Bnazi%2Bfeminists%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1% 3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=2&ttl=321&return ArticleService=showFullText Robert Gellately, “Review: [untitled]”, Reviewed work: Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp =hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Drobert%2Bgellately%2Bhitler%2527s%2Bwilling%2Bexecutioner s%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed %3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=1&ttl=28&returnArticleService=showFullText