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100 1 $aWeitz, Eric D.
245 10 $aWeimar Germany :$bpromise and tragedy /$cEric D. Weitz.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2007.
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505 0 $aA troubled beginning -- Walking the city -- Political worlds -- A turbulent economy and an anxious society -- Building a new Germany -- Sound and image -- Culture and mass society -- Bodies and sex -- Revolution and counterrevolution from the Right.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [369]-405) and index.
520 $aWeimar Germany tells how Germans rose from the defeat of World War I and the turbulence of revolution to forge democratic institutions and make Berlin a world capital of avant-garde art. Setting the stage for this story, Weitz takes the reader on a walking tour of Berlin to see and feel what life was like there in the 1920s, when modernity and the modern city--with its bright lights, cinemas,"new women," cabarets, and sleek department stores--were new. We learn how Germans enjoyed better working conditions and new social benefits and listened to the utopian prophets of everything from radical socialism to communal housing to nudism. Weimar Germany also explores the period's revolutionary cultural creativity, from the new architecture of Erich Mendelsohn, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius to Hannah Hoch's photomontages and Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's theater. Other chapters assess the period's turbulent politics and economy, and the recipes for fulfilling sex lives propounded by new "sexologists." Yet, Weimar Germany also shows how entrenched elites continually challenged Weimar's achievements and ultimately joined with a new radical Right led by the Nazis to form a coalition that destroyed the republic.
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