Posts Tagged: Weimar
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Dada, 1920
The opening of the “First International Dada Fair” in Berlin 100 years ago
Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern
Mad king v. hapless professor in the final round of Weimar cinema
Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern
Mad king v. hapless professor in the final round of Weimar cinema
The lonely death of Valeska Gert
“Kitty’s a gourmet, he doesn’t like me anymore …”
Postcard from Anita-Berber-Park
A cemetery springs to life in honour of the doomed Berlin provocateuse
Postcard from Anita-Berber-Park
A cemetery springs to life in honour of the doomed Berlin provocateuse
Walking in a Weimar wonderland
Walking in Berlin, Franz Hessel’s classic non-fiction account of the city in the Weimar era, finally available in English
Walking in a Weimar wonderland
Walking in Berlin, Franz Hessel’s classic non-fiction account of the city in the Weimar era, finally available in English
The rose and the bomb
Weimar Berlin, the soft opening: the debut of Anita Berber and Valeska Gert, 100 years ago today
The rose and the bomb
Weimar Berlin, the soft opening: the debut of Anita Berber and Valeska Gert, 100 years ago today
Tiergarten
An exiled Walter Benjamin recalls his childhood in the city to which he was never to return.
Tiergarten
An exiled Walter Benjamin recalls his childhood in the city to which he was never to return.
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Who Owns the World?
Brecht and Dudow’s ‘Kuhle Wampe’, the cinematic swan song of the New Objectivity.
Who Owns the World?
Brecht and Dudow’s ‘Kuhle Wampe’, the cinematic swan song of the New Objectivity.
Yva | photographs
Yva was one of an extraordinary wave of female photographers active in Weimar-era Berlin.
Yva | photographs
Yva was one of an extraordinary wave of female photographers active in Weimar-era Berlin.
Eve of destruction
…a week’s worth of the diversity and brilliance of Weimar Berlin.
Dress-down Friday: Claire Waldoff
Waldoff aimed not at a dandyish elegance but pan-gender directness, assuming the look and persona of a particularly mouthy newspaper boy.
Dress-down Friday: Claire Waldoff
Waldoff aimed not at a dandyish elegance but pan-gender directness, assuming the look and persona of a particularly mouthy newspaper boy.
Diversity Destroyed
Berlin’s “Diversity Destroyed” programme acknowledges, along with the incalculable human suffering caused by the Nazis, the immense loss to the city’s culture.
Diversity Destroyed
Berlin’s “Diversity Destroyed” programme acknowledges, along with the incalculable human suffering caused by the Nazis, the immense loss to the city’s culture.
Dress-down Friday: Harry Graf Kessler
“He attached great importance to dressing well, considering his friend Richard Dehmel’s predilection for gaudy ties to be something of a moral failing.”
Dress-down Friday: Harry Graf Kessler
“He attached great importance to dressing well, considering his friend Richard Dehmel’s predilection for gaudy ties to be something of a moral failing.”
The con artist formerly known as Prince
…being the further adventures of Harry Domela, the “sham prince” of Weimar Germany.
The con artist formerly known as Prince
…being the further adventures of Harry Domela, the “sham prince” of Weimar Germany.
Weimar ghosts
In the middle of modern-day Berlin a relic of the city’s 1920s cabaret culture has just awoken…
Weimar ghosts
In the middle of modern-day Berlin a relic of the city’s 1920s cabaret culture has just awoken…
Strange Flowers 