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During the Weimar Republic, an art movement that looked at the nation with a cool eye developed in Germany. Labeled Neue Sachlichkeit-- new objectivity -- it reflected the resignation and cynicism ...
She was speaking at a book launch in early May to mark the publication of her latest work, The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: Twenty-First-Century Literature, Media, and Visual Culture (Camden House / ...
Postmodern cabaret sensation Meow Meow—who blends performance art, cabaret, comedy, and pop culture—in Sequins and Satire, Divas and Disruptors: The Wild Women of the Weimar Republic (Mar. 23 ...
Combining the study of film, history, social movements, psychopathology and art, ‘Weimar Film and Culture’ presents a portrait of Germany at its moment of greatest cultural crisis: between WWI and ...
The Weimar Republic was a time of endless crises. Its existence ceased to exist after less than 14 years with the arrival of Adolf Hitler. Few at the time mourned German democracy.
Despite high hopes, the new republic was troubled throughout its short life, riven by radicalism on both the left and the right, catastrophically failing in the end, and giving way in 1933 to ...
At the center of Carnegie Hall’s announcement of its 2023-24 season is “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice,” a festival stretched over five months devoted to the beautiful and ...
Under the swaying trees and the scent of rain-drenched summer air, a peculiar transformation is unfolding in the courtyard of ...
Like in the Weimar Republic. A lot depends on who Merz will govern with and how he will govern. A weak Germany will mean a weak European Union. Moscow and Washington will be watching closely.
I’m no prognosticator, but I’m anticipating the return, any day now, of the house style of Germany’s Weimar Republic. I’m not thinking “Cabaret” and kohl eyeliner so much as the shrewd ...
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, despite ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too ...