Cultral change in wiemar germany 1914-29

How did architecture change

• Ordinary geometric designs

Who led the bauhus movement

• By walter Gropius 1919 wiemar

How did the govement suport cultral change in wiemar

• Subsidised art exibitions and sponsered artists

What was modernisim in wiemar

• Became a synomyn with the values of weimar and was more liberal

What was the new objectivity movement

• The war had resulted in horror created through death and political unstability was shown in a new style of writing and painting

what resulted in cultral change wiemar

• After WW1 there was a ‘cultral explosion’

• due to the removal of censorship and reaction from the pain of the war

Resulted in Cultral experementation

Name two expressionist artists wiemar

• George Grosz

• Otto Dix

Who was against cultral change in wiemar

• zentrum and the right wing - led campains against the ‘tides of filth’

• new laws eg. 1926 law to protect youth from pulp fiction and p*rnography’

• Books like - ‘Decline of the west’ by Oswald spengler 1918 argued only the elite could save the west

Who were key writters of the weimar

• Herman hesse

• Thomas mann

• Arnold Zweig

• E.M.Remarque

Who and When was All’s quiet on the western front and how many copies were sold

1929 E.M.Remarque

• 500,000 sold in the first month

how did writting chanage in wiemar

• More paperbacks increaced publishing

• more purposefull writting politically and socially

how did theater change

• More direct communication with the audince

• new stage set

What does theater of the time translate into

• Zeittheter

What new plays were there in wiemar

• Three penny opera - Kurt Weil satire 1928

• Mother courage - Bertoit bretch - showd sympathy for ordinary people

what were the new topics explored in art

• Daily human life

• Provocative

• Challenge=ing the heroisim of war

Music in the wiemar

• Shoenburg

• Alaban berg

• Anton von webern

In the Kroll opera house in Berlin

Films in the Weimar

• The cabinet of Dr Caligri - silent horror movie

• Metropolis - Fritz lang

• The blue angel - starred Marline dirtitch

change of the youth in wiemar

Americanization of society

• Cigarettes

• Hollywood films

• Chewing gum

• women = cropped hairstyles

• Dance halls

• black jazz bands

• Charlston