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Development of Culture in Weimar Germany (1924-1929 )

Development of Culture in Weimar Germany (1924-1929 ). By Seb , Will and Connor. What did the culture include?. Literature Architecture Science Music Art Theatre C inema. How did these things change both positively and negatively. Cinema. Expressionism Fritz Lang (director)

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Development of Culture in Weimar Germany (1924-1929 )

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  1. Development of Culture in Weimar Germany (1924-1929) 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/grettagarbo (actresses) • “drmabuse, 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 • BertoltBrecht • Erich mariaremarque • “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

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