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Art and Culture in Weimar Germany

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he 1920s saw a huge cultural revival in Germany with experimentation. Writers and had a chance to try out new ideas over all the arts. George Grosz used art to society and comment on everyday life in Germany. The Dada school was another movement which believed that the absurd should be considered . This was seen in the work of Hannah Hoech who made many collages. and design were affected by the new Bauhaus movement of Walter Gropius.

George Grosz drawing of Jesus Christ

Germany became the centre for new plays and . The cinema also made great strides showing films with anti military and anti messages. Literature was also affected with Erich Remarque writing his celebrated anti war called All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel described the horrors and destruction of the World War - it was later made into a successful film.

Debate was able to flouish in the atmosphere of free allowed by the Republic. was at the centre of this activity with 120 newspapers, magazines and many theatres. Germany even seemed to replace France as the cultural centre of Europe with Berlin being most prominent.

Criticism followed by extreme wing groups like the Nazi Party. They considered what was being produced in the Weimar Republic was and unpatriotic. The new culture did not represent the more virtues of Germany. The far left, like the Communists, thought felt that experimentation was a and did not relect the needs of the working class. Many ordinary people in Germany were confused by the rapid changes in culture and were not impressed with the new forms of art and buildings. Many blamed the new art for decline of standards in the 1920s. Berlin had a huge number of night and there was more emphasis on sex in entertainment.

The culture of the Weimar Republic became a target for during the period of the Third Reich. They attacked it and called it un-German and degenerate. However during its production it allowed of expression and was a means for Germany to once again influence Europe.