The Weimar Republic began at 2:00 PM on November 9, 1918 when
Philip Scheidemann declared from a second-story window in the Reich
Chancellery to his hearers below that the German Reich was now a
republic. It ended at 11:00 AM on January 30, 1933 when President
Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler Chancellor. The Cultural
Chronicle of the Weimar Republic is an account of significant
cultural events in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic.
Weimar, already a German cultural mecca because Goethe and Schiller
had lived and worked there 120 years earlier, emerged as a unique
and experimental culture. Weimar culture was responsible for
producing such icons as actress Marlene Dietrich, novels like All
Quiet on the Western Front, musicals like The Threepenny Opera, the
political cabaret, the Bauhaus School, and films like The Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis. There were hundreds of premieres,
performance debuts, exhibitions, works of fiction, and other
cultural events that marked the Republic as Western Civilization's
first modernist society. Modernism took many forms: the Einstein
Tower in Berlin, the symphonies of Paul Hindemith, the paintings of
Max Beckmann, the drawings of Kathe Kollwitz, the novels of Alfred
Doeblin, the industrial designs of Ferdinand Porsche, the
choreography of Mary Wigman, the acting of Ernst Deutsch, the plays
of Expressionism. The Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic
presents these and scores of other modernist inscriptions worthy of
note, while providing notations that inform readers of connections
among individuals, art works, related cultural activities, and
significant political and economic developments.
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