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Altogether, 14 Weimar buildings representing 19th century classicism or the 20th century Bauhaus are covered by a Unesco World Heritage listing. And they're mostly in walking distance of the ...
After Germany was unified, we got Sturm, Drang, Weimar Classicism and Goethe. Theater had a slow start in Germany, mainly because Germany wasn't a thing until *relatively* recent times.
Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both ...
like Goethe a representative of Weimar Classicism, and the composer Franz Liszt. Walter Gropius gave impetus to the modern movement in 1919 when he founded the Bauhaus school of art, architecture ...
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small Thuringian town of Weimar witnessed a remarkable cultural flowering, attracting many writers and scholars, notably Goethe and Schiller. This ...
From the end of World War II until German unification in 1990, the three cities of Weimar, Dresden and Leipzig were part of the German Democratic Republic, under Soviet control behind the Iron ...
Weimar is considered the capital of German Classicism, and that is why our recommendation for what is known as the Classic Road comes from this city. 28-year-old Thimo Hennig has close links to ...
The story follows a sprawling collection of characters from different classes and viewpoints during the years 1928 to 1933, as the Weimar Republic decayed and Hitler emerged as the figure who ...
Over the past few weeks, this reviewer has been on a binge, tele-drunk on “Babylon Berlin,” the noirish Weimar-era dramatic series abruptly abandoned by Netflix after three seasons ...