Weimar Society by Emily

Weimar Cinema

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Metropolis- Fritz Lang

Old Ruling Class

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Within German society there were many groups who were deeply resentful of
democracy and nostalgic for the order, prosperity and international standing of
the pre-war years. The most significant of these groups was the old ruling
class. The election of Hindenburg, one of their own, to the Presidency in 1925
gave renewed hope that the past could be restored. No matter how honourable
Hindenburg intended to be with regard to the democratic constitution, it was odd
symbolism for a new democracy to be headed by a hero of the old order. Worse,
those closest to the old man, and in a position to influence him, were all
representative of the old order.

Weimar Architecture

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Bauhaus- Walter Gropius

'Art & Technology- a new unity

Weimar Social System

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Middle Class Resentment

mounta07 — 2014-05-12 08:48:24 UTC

The middle class resented the fact that their savings had been wiped out in
1923 while others had profited from inflation.

Weimar Radio

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Mass Communication

1930: 4 million sets

Households that had radio:

46% in large cities

10% village

Weimar Art

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Wassily Kandinsky - Transverse Line 1923. Kandinksy's

abstractions brought to painting, the severe, geometric

functionalism of Bauhaus design

Weimar Cabaret and Dance

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40 theatres + 120 newspapers

n*ked dancing and open homosexuality

Army

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The Army remained unreformed and tolerant but not sympathetic towards democracy.
(In 1926 20% of army officers were the sons of nobility, while the nobility was
only 0.14% of the total population.)

Working Class Clash

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Working people actually improved their situation with better real wages,
unemployment insurance and lower working hours. What this did, however, was to
alienate other groups such as big business, who resented their loss of power and
profit, and the lower middle class ( the Mittelstand), who saw their own position threatened by a
system which seemed to favour the working class.

Weimar Music & Culture

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Atonality/ experimental

Modern issues from a radical left perspective

Kroll Opera House, Berlin

Otto Dix

pagee07 — 2014-05-12 08:59:13 UTC

Apotheosis

George Grusz

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Metropolis

Hannah Hoch

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Die Journalisten, 1925

Weimar Literature

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Aronld Zweig, Hermann Hesse & Thomas Mann

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, challenged the stab in the back myth, sold 500,000 copies in 3 months

Doomed to fail arugument

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Conservatives blamed Weimar Republic for undermining traditional German Culture

Left wing artists found the culture 'Grey and uninspiring'

More German people stuck to traditional ideas and festivals than participating in new culture

The culture itself was confined to Towns and cities

Middle class resented that their savings were lost

Businesses and Mittlestand felt threatened by the working class and worse of due to their loss of power and profit

Growing in Strength

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The Government used its control to limit radical radio programmes

The Culture increased the amount of Leftist ideas

Challenged Paris as the Cultural Centre of Europe

9 Germans won the Noble prize in the Weimar Republic years

The Working Class were better off due to better wages and less hours

Old Elites were happy with Hindenburg's appointment

Max Ernst

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Man Shall Know Nothing of This 1923

Max Beckmann

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Before the Masked Ball 1922

Conclusion

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The Weimar culture did reinforce many peoples hostility to the regime,

Weimar Germany was not ruined by female wrestlers or disfigured paintings,

but such activities seemed for many Germans to symbolise all what was wrong with

their country and so made them more likely to vote against the Weimar regime or simply not vote at all.