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	Weimar culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Weimar Republic refers to the years (1919-1933) in German history.
		German artists made significant cultural contributions in the fields of literature, art, architecture, music, dance, drama, and the new medium of the motion picture.
		Political theorist Ernst Bloch described Weimar culture as a Periclean Age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weimar_Culture (490 words)

	Weimar Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Weimar Republic (German Weimarer Republik, IPA: [ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk]) is the historical name for the republic that governed Germany from 1919 to 1933.
		The use of the English word empire and its adjective imperial may be confusing because the Weimar Republic was a republic; empire is an imprecise translation of the German word Reich (which does not have a specific monarchic connotation) and is increasingly translated as commonwealth or realm.
		The last years of the Weimar republic were stamped by even more political instability than in the previous years and the administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) were all Presidentially appointed Dictatorships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weimar_Republic (7552 words)

	Re-membering the European Citizen (Weimar) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Weimar is synonymous with the remembered unity of German and European culture -all that is collected by the terms "Enlightenment" and "Modernity." And, within those same terms, Weimar is also synonymous with what is broken, dis-membered, with what resists unity, reconciliation, and assimilation to a whole.
		Weimar is both a wound, where the constitutive antagonism of modernity is palpable, and Weimar is a place of suture, where the work of drawing together the raw and ragged edges of modern culture is ongoing.
		Weimar, European City of Culture is a postmodern phantasmagoria, whose rhetorical practices seek to interpellate and re-member modern sensibilities in a post-modern subject; a subject who is neither skilled, nor alert, nor interested in being a hero, but is happily stupefied, suspended in the ecstasy of communication.
	www.ucc.ie /ucc/depts/sociology/papers/kkweimar.htm (8049 words)

	Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
		Weimar was Germany's belated and ultimately ill-fated attempt at becoming a democracy -- fourteen brief years between the Empire's ignominious end and Hitler's rise to power.
		Somewhat unusually for a cultural historian, Widdig takes the economic history of the period seriously, and is clear on the most important debates about the inflation's causes.
		Rapid growth and full employment were also in evidence in the cultural sphere, while Widdig almost appears to take the vibrancy of Weimar culture during the years 1919-23 for granted.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0560.shtml (2145 words)

	The Brilliance of Weimar Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Weimar Culture provides a barometer of deeper currents, tensions, and directions in German Society, trends that were not always visible to contemporaries.
		William II (1890-1918) had demanded a narrow cultural outlook which glorified accomplishments of his Hohenzollern family, encouraged acceptance of the status quo, ignored the uglier side of society, and rejected modernism is art as degenerate.
		(1) Weimar culture reflects the tone of postwar Germany: its discordance, fragmentation, and increasing subjectivism.
	www.appstate.edu /~brantzrw/GermanHistory/brilliantweimarculture.htm (3715 words)

	Burkhard Henke: Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar
		A prime example of Cultural Studies, this volume is a result of a quest for what was forgotten, concealed, revised, or transformed.
		Weimar and especially Goethe were always attractively 'wrapped,' but 1999 was the great Goethe Year, the year in which Weimar was the culture capital of Europe.
		9: The Hunchback of Weimar: Louise von Göchhausen and the Weimar Grotesque
	www.davidson.edu /academic/german/henke/pages/unwrapping.html (468 words)

	Weimar in America
		That Weimar culture obeyed this law is recognized even by its most admiring historians; as Peter Gay has observed, the excitement of Weimar was in large measure the product of "anxiety, fear, [and] a rising sense of doom" (not exactly the sentiments one discovers in Pericles' funeral oration).
		Indeed, the very word Weimar called forth a procession of tragic associations, for it stood for the intellectual heritage of Geoethem, that exemplar of the German liberal Zivilisation that had repeatedly been demonstrated to be the most fragile of reeds.
		Weimar Germany was consumed with a "hunger for wholeness," in Peer Gay's words, a hunger that accounts for the desperate attraction of radical ideas--whether the example of the Soviet Union's "new society," or the prospect of a purified Teutonic Kultur.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1986/may/bk7.cfm (4089 words)

	Lesson 10. Quiz 1. GER 216 German Civilization. A. Lixl
		The Weimar Republic was one of the most fertile grounds for modern arts and sciences in German cultural history.
		Which Weimar philosopher and cultural critic (1892-1940) is being described here: "He was one of Weimar Germany's most original and influential thinkers and cultural critics.
		cultural vitality and diversity of the Weimar period was best represented by the innovative curriculum of the __________________ School of architecture in Weimar.
	www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/lixl/216/Quizzes/Lesson10Quiz1Civ.html (301 words)

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		The Weimar Republic was the first attempt to establish constitutional liberal democratic government in Germany.
		Goethe's Weimar was contrasted with the Prussian Germany of authoritarianism, military swagger, and imperialism.
		German culture under the republic reflected the ideological diversity of a politically fragmented society.
	www.adolfhitler.ws /lib/bio/WeimarCulture.html (670 words)

	Art Journal: Frenetic surfaces - Reviews - book about German design in the 1920s - Book Review
		Yet, her even-handed study also addresses the underside of this display culture, which was located in a country where unemployment and poverty often limited consumption precisely to the surfaces on which its stimuli were so heavily concentrated.
		Weimar Surfaces is one of the latest publications in the University of California s Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism series, an essential collection of studies of, and translations from, the period.
		Her effort, for example, to "reenact the surface terrain of Weimar Germany as one of the most dazzling examples of the modern period and reassess it according to its own merits" (2) reaffirms the excitement that brought many of us to study this period in the first place.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0425/is_4_61/ai_96134619 (1243 words)

	Weimar Culture (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.
		Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the twentieth century.
		Vivid and eminently readable, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual reader and historian alike.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall01/032239.htm (180 words)

	GER 620 - Weimar: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Weimar Republic is an odd period of German cultural history.
		The name itself has become almost synonymous with mdoernism and modernity, and the period itself is looked upon as the first real flowering of an urban culture that embraced mass and popular culture, electronic media, and diverse forms of entertainment.
		Unlike other literary epochs that are defined by aesthetic forms or content similarities, Weimar is bound by political history: the fall of imperial system in 1918 and the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /~skidmore/courses/ger620weimar/introduction.htm (359 words)

	Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As historians have remarked, "German culture at the time of the Weimar Republic was a deeply divided culture." The truth of this can be clearly seen in Expressionist paintings of the time, with the radical left and right ‘expressing’ their feelings on what was going on around them.
		To the left, the Weimar Republic was responsible for the "social inequalities of [a] modern industrial capitalist society." George Grosz, himself an ardent support of Communism for a period, shows the dislike of the inequalities around him particularly well in Eclipse of the Sun, which he painted in 1926 [fig.1.].
		To the right, Weimar was spiraling downwards into moral depravity, and more and more was becoming modernized’; in a way they could not abide, and they longed for the prewar life.
	www.qthelights.com /writing/weimar.html (1594 words)

	OUP: David Midgley on Critical Realism in German Literature
		Weimar is the period which starts with the defeat of Germany in the First World War, continues with a sequence of economic and political crises, and concludes with the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor.
		At one extreme there is the tendency to view the literary writing primarily as evidence of cultural factors which contributed to the rise of Hitler; at the other there is the tendency to treat it as belonging wholly to that left-wing and avant-garde culture which the Nazis obliterated when they came to power.
		The strong sense of antagonism between the culture of the city (especially that of Berlin) and that of the provinces is another such issue; it was heavily politicised, but there is a substantial number of authors who can be seen as mediating in one way or another between polarised positions.
	www.oup.co.uk /academic/humanities/literature/viewpoint/david_midgley (816 words)

	WEIMAR CULTURE
		And Weimar governments lacked the basis of support and popular legitimacy to push through unpleasant but necessary measures: hence the terrible inflation of 1922-23.
		Restabilization of the economy was also painful: a quadrupling of interest rates; a tripling of taxes on farmers; the bankrupting of small shopkeepers; layoffs of thousands of civil servants and white collar employees.
		It was a defense of German culture, with its proud traditions of musical creativity and metaphysical speculation, against what he perceived as the shallow materialism of the Western powers.
	media.ucsc.edu /classes/thompson/weimar.html (3142 words)

	Lustmord
		Tatar had been teaching a class on Weimar (German) culture when her students brought to her attention the recurrent theme of psycho sexual assault and murder in the art they were studying.
		Weimar Germany has often been glamorized as a period of alluring decadence or idealized as a breeding ground for modernist culture, it also figured as a bridge between two cataclysmic events.
		In Weimar, the love obsession in Lolita also had a specific name; similar to Lustmord (sexual murder), Liebstod (love-death) is defined as "the assertion of transcendent desire and the spiritualization of egos", or by love that is a death, in actuality, of the soul or spirit.
	www.black-dahlia.org /lustmord.html (3637 words)

	Cinema And Film Industry in Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
		Film industry in the Weimar Republic was deeply affected by the intervention of economic and political concerns in all aspects of cultural life.
		Paul Coates defines the use of narrative framing in Expressionist Weimar cinema as "a Kafkaesque immitation of the functioning of the state bureaucracy, refering the question of the text to a higher instance, which usually overturns the sense of the subordinate text and sometimes destroys it entirely" (Coates, 1991, 32).
		The film’s emphasis on the instinctual is significant in comprehending the social distrust of the democratic institutions of the Weimar Republic.
	www.korotonomedya.net /theoria/weimar.html (12386 words)

	Fire ruins thousands of books in Weimar - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WEIMAR, Germany - A fire that ripped through one of Germany's most precious historical libraries destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of irreplaceable books, although some 6,000 works, including a 1543 Martin Luther Bible, were spirited to safety by a chain of people, officials said Friday.
		Weimar, 150 miles southwest of Berlin, was put on Europe's cultural map by Anna Amalia and her son, Duke Carl August, starting in the mid-18th century.
		Just a week after Weimar toasted Goethe’s 255th birthday, the Anna-Amalia Library was destroyed by a fire that engulfed some of the most precious pieces of German classical literature, including the library’s entire “Faust” collection.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=151754 (666 words)

	German Civilization. Lesson 10. Andreas Lixl, UNCG.
		Friedrich Ebert was elected president of the new Weimar Republic.
		The Weimar Republic, however ailing in economic and political terms, was one of the most fertile grounds for modern arts and sciences in German cultural history.
		cultural vitality and diversity of the Weimar period was best represented by the innovative curriculum of the Bauhaus School of architecture in Weimar.
	www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/lixl/216/216Lesson10.htm (4440 words)

	The Choices Program \| Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler
		In Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler students have an opportunity to ponder the lessons for democracy from one of the 20th century's most troubling political legacies.
		Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler asks students to see the world through the eyes of Germans in the Weimar era and to contemplate German political choices in 1932.
		Ultimately, the intent is to help students clarify their thoughts on the failure of democracy in Weimar Germany, articulate their own views, and apply the lessons of history to the challenges facing democratic institutions today both at home and abroad.
	www.choices.edu /curriculum_unit.cfm?id=14 (559 words)

	Judaism: The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany. - book reviews
		Although the cultural flowers that would bloom during the Weimar Period were already growing before the war, the stifling atmosphere of Prussian Junkerdom kept these accomplishments in check.
		Imperial Germany's collapse, the abdication of Wilhelm II, and the proclamation of the Republic on 9 November 1918 by Philipp Scheidemann of the Socialist Party, promised a new era.
		While not limited to the Weimar period, a remarkable number of the subjects of his thumb-nail sketches made their signal contributions during the Republic.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n1_v46/ai_19353466 (1097 words)

	Wagner in Weimar \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 26.08.2004
		In a city as steeped in history as Weimar, the task of re-energizing the local arts festival while upholding the city's formidable legacy is far from an easy one.
		Vokhard Knigge, director of the Weimar Klassik Foundation which organizes the festival, described her appointment as an "extraordinary opportunity." When the former culture minister in the Hamburg regional government agreed to take over, a funding crisis meant it wasn't even certain the event had a future.
		But she firmly believes that the festival's juxtaposition of old and new can only be good for a city whose history is both a boon and a burden.
	www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1441_A_1308149_1_A,00.html?mpb=en (1016 words)

	The art of taking a walk: flanerie, literature and film in Weimar culture
		While covering all of these areas, Anke Gleber's The art of taking a walk: flanerie, literature and film in Weimar culture enters into the discourse of flanerie in a directed fashion: her project is focused on an investigation of the flaneur in Weimar culture.
		As professional spectator, observer and recorder, the flaneur, Gleber argues, registers the excitement and innovation of Weimar modernity; he acts as a kind of barometer for measuring the impact of railroads, street lighting, photography, cinema and political and economic change.
		There are numerous references to the significance of film in Weimar culture, to the flaneur's intimate connections to cinema (she calls the flaneur a human personification of the cinema at one point) and to the connection between cinema and the role of women in the public sphere.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/shorts/reviews/rev1199/lcbr8a.htm (815 words)

	The Americanisation of the Culture of Weimar Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The third part will be about the cultural influence of America on Germany, first with the perception of American culture in Germany and then with German culture that has been influenced by the American, focussing on Jazz.
		The high American cultural influence on Europe after the Second World War can be explained with the stationing of large contingents of American troops in Europe until long after the war was over.
		Culturally, the jazz movement infiltrated Europe on the coat-strings of American economic supremacy on the depressed continent.
	www.informatik.hu-berlin.de /~goebel/ha/ha_weiku.htm (2878 words)

	Alibris: Weimar
		Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept for genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero.
		Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the 20th century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War.
		The Weimar experiment in democracy depended to no small degree upon the welfare system's ability to give German citizens at least a fundamental level of material and mental security in the face of the new risks to which they had been exposed by the effects of the lost war, revolution,...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Weimar (1169 words)

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