1. Development
of Culture in
Weimar Germany
( )
By Seb, Will
and Connor

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

3. How did these things change both positively and negatively

4. 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”

5. 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

6. theatre Cabaret Piscator-wartime experience Reinhardt
Christopher Isherwood
Josephine Baker

7. Did these changes affect all groups in society the same?

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

9. 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

10. architecture
Bauhaus
Gropius
Ernst May and Bruno Taut

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