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The Weimar physician advocated for a more fluid understanding of sexuality and gender—a pioneering idea that was erased by the rise of Nazism.
Last Updated on July 28, 2025 by Matt Staff 1921 was a year of contrast, post-war optimism mixed with strict societal norms, ...
There isn’t a huge amount of variation in the song styles, but they lend weight to Trauffer’s narrative and he performs them with absolute authority. Ultimately, The Pink List is a far more ...
Director Brian F. Finnerty says the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical ‘Cabaret’ set during the rise of Nazi power in Berlin, ...
Like several other arts groups in town, the Sarasota Players has become a mom-and-pop shop. With husband-and-wife Brian ...
“Hess employed a richly informed method in his writing that was rooted in a wide command of his material but crucially took art, and artists, as historically determined social categories and the ...
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Which begs the (endlessly repeated) question — why art? Why bother looking at locally curated shows of local artists when our foundational principles are being renegotiated, disassembled, demoralised?
It was published posthumously, over 25 years after Haffner’s death, after the manuscript was found in a drawer.
Declarations that any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza amounts to “antisemitism" and represents an abuse of Holocaust remembrance are assuming increasingly bizarre forms.
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Before Sebald Was Great

By looking at his early work, we can better understand who the German writer was beyond his persona as the melancholy intellectual and serious man of letters.
In the final years of the Weimar Republic, the German left was paralyzed by ideological divisions, by a failure to persuade broad swathes of the populace that it was capable of guiding the country out ...
I think all of this musical and subsequent film directed by Muppets legend, Frank Oz, taught me what perfect storytelling looks like, and how funny and absurd a piece can be while telling a ...