Weimar Culture Research 10d 2012

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Art in the Weimar Republic

1925 Klee had his first exhibits in Paris,

In 1929, the first major monograph on Klees work waspublished, written by Will Grohmann.

Around the Fish 1926. In 1925 the Bauhaus published Klee's

Pedagogisches Skizzenbuch, (it was translated into English as

Pedagogical Sketchbook in 1953)

Ernst Barlach

In 1928 Barlach published his autobiography entitled 'Einselbsterzhltes Leben' ('A Self told Life').

From 1928 he created many anti-war art based on his own

experience of war.

Ernst was hired to create a sculpture called the Magdeburger

Ehrenmalwhich was suppose to show a heroic German solder,

but he did it as 3 German soldiers looking at a grave

Theatre and Film facts
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Marlene Dietrich was in the silent film The Blue Angel and

performed on stage in the 1920s in Berlin.

Greta Garbo was one of the most glamorous and popular

motion-picture stars of the 1920s and starred in 9 silentfilms, her first being The Temptress in 1926.

The 1920s in Germany was also known as the German

expressionism movement.

Carl Froelich made the first ever sound film

Fritz Lang: 1927 masterpiece Metropolis

His work influences filmmakers as desperate as Jacques

Rivette and William Friedrkin

His emigration remains controversial

America had better film industry

Ernst Lubischt made some of the first comedies

Fritz Lang: Lang directed films that film scholars would

consider a masterpiece.

Lotte Reiniger 1923- 1929

A unique opportunity came to her Louis Hagen who which bought a large quantity of

raw film stock to fight the inflation, Louis asked lotte Reiniger who asked her to do a

feature length animated film called The Adventures of Prince Achmedthis wasfinished in 1926.

Then in 1928 she made a second feature. Doctor Dolittle and His Animals (DoktorDolittle und seine Tiere)


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Music

Paul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Hindemith was taught the violin

as a child. He entered Frankfurt'sHochsche Konservatorium, where he studied violin with

Adolf Rebner, as well as conducting and composition with Arnold Mendelssohn and

Bernhard Sekles. At first he supported himself by playing in dance bands and musical-

comedy groups. He became deputy leader of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra in 1914, and was

promoted to leader in 1917. He played second violin in the Rebner String Quartet from 1914.

In 1921 he founded the Amar Quartet, playing viola, and extensively toured Europe.

In 1922, some of his pieces were played in the International Society for Contemporary Music

festival at Salzburg, which first brought him to the attention of an international audience. The

following year, he began to work as an organizer of the Donaueschingen Festival, where he

programmed works by several avant garde composers, including Anton Webern and ArnoldSchoenberg. From 1927 he taught composition at the Berliner Hochschule fr Musikin

Berlin.

Hindemith's relationship to the Nazis is a complicated one. Some condemned his music as

"degenerate" (largely on the basis of his early, sexually charged operas such as Sancta

Susanna), and in December 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germanys

Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced Hindemith as an "atonal

noisemaker."

Kurt Wiell composer

D.O.B: 02.02.1900

D.O.D: 03.04.1950

Religion: Jewish

Cause of death: heart attack

Occupation: composer and conductor

he was criticized by the Nazi authorities and was made a targetbecause of his background

he was a populist sympathiser

Wiell fled Nazi Germany in1933 because he was a socialist and a

Jew

While he lived in America he supported the war efforts abroad and on the home front

He wrote a piece of music called the ballad of the Nazi soldier wife
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Anton Webern

3rd December 1883 to 15th September 1945.

Austrian composer and conductor.

Conducted the Vienna workers Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to

1934.

The Nazi party in Germany described his music as cultural bolshevism

and degenerate art even before the Austrian Anschluss of 1938.

He had sharply attacked Nazi cultural policies in private lectures given in

1933. As a result of official disapproval he found it harder to earn a living.

He had to take on work as an editor and proof-reader for his publishers,

Universal Edition.

He enlisted for army service but was discharged at the end of 1916

because of poor eyesight.

Fell victim to the rising tide of nationalism.
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Otto Klemperer

He was born in Breslau, SilesiaProvince, then in Germany, now

Wroclaw, Poland

14th May 1885

He held a number of positions theCologne Opera (19171924)

The Wiesbaden Opera House (19241927).

From 1927 to 1931, he was conductor at the Kroll Opera in Berlin

At the Kroll Opera in Berlin he gained the reputation as a champion

of new music, playing a number of new works, including...

Leo Janek's From the House of the Dead,

Arnold Schnberg's Erwartung,

Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus rex,

Paul Hindemith's Cardillac.
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Alban Bergs biggest success was Wozzeck which

was performed in 1924.

Another well-known Berg composition is the Lyric

Suite, from 1926

Arnold Schoenberg created the 12 tone technique


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ARCHITECTURE

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius-

May 18, 1883 July 5, 1969

German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School (built 1925-

1926)

Ernst May

27 July 1886 - 11 September 1970

German architect and city planner.

Siedlung Riederwald (built 1926-1927)

- Erich Mendelsohn

Architect in Munich

Designed Red Banner Textile Factory in 1926

He fled to England in the rise in Nazi Germany

Built Work hall of the Herrmann hat factory Luckenwakle

Built Einsteintum Potsdam

Built Mossehaus Berlin

Built Universum-Kino Berlin
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Literature.

Christopher Isherwood wrote a novel called Goodbye to Berlin which

later the famous play Cabaret was based on.

Klauss Mann was a homosexual.

Klauss Mann was the author of Mephisto which was very popular in the

early 1920s.

Bertolt Brecht made the silent film Mysteries of a Barbershop created

in 1923.

Heinrich Manns strong, social opinionated writing caused his exile out of

Germany. These writing themes included criticisms against the militaryand authority changes before World War 2.

Anna Seghers was born Netty Reiling, a Jew.

She married a Hungarian Communist in 1925.

She wrote about the experiences of World War 2.

Kurt Tucholsky was a pacifist.


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Kurts books were listed by the Nazis as Degenerate Art, they were all

burned and he was stripped of his German citizenship.

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