The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in World War I, and the failed Communist revolution that followed the armistice in November 1918, and collapsed with the election of the Nazi Party in 1933. This week, Juliet talks to Tom Wilkinson (author of 'Bricks and Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People Who Made Them') about how the war and its aftermath changed German Expressionism, gave rise to Dada and the Neue Sachlichkeit movements, and brought about the most intense reaction against modernist culture.
SELECTED REFERENCES
Die Aktion - http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_aktion.php
Arbeitsrat für Kunst - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitsrat_für_Kunst
Jean (Hans) Arp
Bauhaus
Der Blaue Reiter - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/der-blaue-reiter
Bertolt Brecht
ARNOLT BRONNEN, Vatermord (1922) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolt_Bronnen
Die Brücke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Brücke
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920)
Otto Dix - https://www.ottodix.org/
ALFRED DÖBLIN, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1928) - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/01/17/the-genius-of-berlin/
Kasimir Edschmid, 'Concerning Poetic Expressionism' (1917)
Max Ernst
George Grosz - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-grosz-1223
WALTER HASENCLEVER, The Son (1912) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_(play)
GERHART HAUPTMANN, The Weavers (1899)
John Heartfield - https://www.johnheartfield.com/
Emmy Hennings - http://www.dada-companion.com/hennings/
Georg Heym - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/may/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview18
Hannah Höch - https://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/01/new-woman-berlins-feminist-dadaist-pioneer-hannah-höch
Richard Huelsenbeck
Marcel Janco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco
GEORG KAISER, From Morning to Midnight (1916), The Coral (1917), Gas I (1918), Gas II (1920) - https://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2013/12/morning-midnight-fiercely-anti-naturalistic-epitome-expressionist-style
WASSILY KANDINSKY, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) - https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-116.php
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Käthe Kollwitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Käthe_Kollwitz
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA, Murderer, Hope of Woman (1909) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderer,_the_Hope_of_Women
SIEGFRIED KRACAUER, From Caligari to Hitler (1947) - https://monoskop.org/images/1/12/Kracauer_Siegfried_From_Caligari_to_Hitler_A_Psychological_History_of_the_German_Film.pdf
M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931)
August Macke
Thomas Mann
Franz Marc
Neue Jugend - http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_neue-jugend.php
Friedrich Nietzsche
Emil Nolde
Die Novembergruppe - https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/die-novembergruppe-the-november-group-1918-1934
Pandora's Box (dir. G. W. Pabst, 1928)
Christian Schad - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christian-schad-2331
Kurt Schwitters
GEORG SIMMEL, The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903) - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/berlin/pdf/scholarship/Simmel_The%20Metropolis.pdf
Carl Sternheim - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sternheim
August Strindberg
Der Sturm - https://www.moma.org/s/ge/collection_ge/objbyppib/objbyppib_ppib-25_sov.html
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - https://frieze.com/tags/sophie-tauber-arp
ERNST TOLLER, Masse-Mensch (1920), Hoppla! We're Alive! (1927)
Ferdinand Tönnies
Kurt Tucholsky - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fabulous-tragic-kurt-tucholsky/
TRISTAN TZARA, 'Dada Manifesto' (1918) - http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf
Richard Wagner
Max Weber
Frank Wedekind
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