The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some
respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural
history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with
the defeat of the Imperial German army, nor is there any obvious
connection between abstract painting and atonal music and the
escape of the Kaiser, nor were the great scientific discoveries
triggered off by the proclamation of the Republic in 1919. As the
eminent historian Walter Laqueur demonstrates, the avant-gardism
commonly associated with post-World War One precedes the Weimar
Republic by a decade.It would no doubt be easier for the historian
if the cultural history of Weimar were identical with the plays and
theories of Bertolt Brecht; the creations of the Bauhaus and the
articles published by the Weltbuhne. But there were a great many
other individuals and groups at work, and Laqueur gives a full and
vivid accounting of their ideas and activities. The realities of
Weimar culture comprise the political right as well as the left,
the universities as well as the literary intelligentsia. It would
not be complete without occasional glances beyond avant-garde
thought and creation and their effects upon traditional German
social and cultural attitudes and the often violent reactions
against "Weimar" that would culminate with the rise of Hitler and
the fall of the republic in 1933.This authoritative work is of
immense importance to anyone interested in the history of Germany
in this critical period of the country's life.
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