

The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army, nor is there any obvious connection between...

The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time



As the eminent historian Walter Laqueur demonstrates, the avant-gardism commonly associated with post-World War One precedes the Weimar Republic by a decade.
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La plupart des Francais l'ignorent: c'est en Allemagne, pendant les annees 1920, que s'est developpee la premiere culture authentiquement moderne. L'expressionnisme, Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Gropius, Thomas Mann, Fritz Lang, Max Reinhardt, le Bauhaus, Heidegger, Paul Klee.....

The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army, nor is there any obvious connection between...