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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013. Lecture Sixteen: The Weimar Republic and Weimar Culture. The Weimar Republic. Parliamentary Republic Proportional Representation Office of Chancellor and Cabinet Office of President. The Period of Instability 1919-1923.
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HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013 Lecture Sixteen: The Weimar Republic and Weimar Culture
The Weimar Republic • Parliamentary Republic • Proportional Representation • Office of Chancellor and Cabinet • Office of President
The Period of Instability 1919-1923 • The Democratic Coalition -- SPD, Center, DDP • The Anti-Democratic Forces -- KPD, Freikorps • Left vs. Right Bavaria after Eisner • Left vs. Right The Kapp Putsch • Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations -- Erzberger, Rathenau, Scheidemann
Crisis of 1923 • Occupation of the Ruhr • Hyperinflation • Communist Insurgency in Saxony • Beer Hall Putsch
Stabilization 1924-1928 • Rightward Shift of the Coalition -- the DVP • Gustav Stresemann as Foreign Minister • The Spirit of Locarno
Weimar Culture • Cultural Responses to World War I • Expressionism and Satirical Art -- Otto Dix, Georg Grosz, Max Beckmann • Dada -- Art and Theater • Modernism and Culture -- the Bauhaus • Literature, Theater, and Left Wing Ideology -- Alfred Doblin, Bertolt Brecht • Cabaret and Introduction of Jazz • Photography and Cinema as New Art Forms