#weimarrepublic — Public Fediverse posts

I've recently read "Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany" by Harald Jähner.

Specialists with a good knowledge of the political history of interwar Germany will probably agree with the criticisms of leading historian Richard Evans in his 29/11/ 24 TLS review, in which he notes the failure of the book to address important aspects of the republic's politics such as the nature of the constitution.

Evans goes on to criticise "Vertigo" as being overly focused on Berlin and its culture of modernity and its neglect of rural and small town Germany.

For a cultural history, though, this emphasis on Berlin is justified, because that metropolis was offering novel aspirations, norms, and ways of living for the country as a whole, even if the reaction to that agenda in much of rural Germany was one of suspicion, resentment, and finally hatred. One rural commentator Jähner quotes noted with bitterness the exodus of women to the city, "the mass grave of the German people", attracted as they were by "greed, by pleasure seeking, by hollow noise in every area of life, by noisy oriental Jewish nonsense in state politics, department stores and theatres."

I would guess that the these seductive possibilities were made known throughout the German speaking world by the mostly Berlin based media of cinema and the illustrated press. Even if the overwhelming majority of Germans neither actively participated in the new forms of art and entertainment flowering in Berlin nor experimented with new metropolitan practices and presentations in sex and gender, the very existence of this new culture could not do other than transform cultures beyond the metropolis, even if only by introducing within them a self-conscious note of antiurban antimodernity.

Jähner, a journalist, has a good feel for both aspects of everyday life that might pass unnoticed by too many historians, such as the yoyo craze of 1932, and also for the disparate and sometimes internally contradictory emotions, moods, and feelings underlying the republic's culture.

Although "Vertigo" is neither comprehensive nor unquestionable in its treatment of Weimar Germany , it is a rich and thoroughly readable resource for non-Germanists like me, and notable for its determination to treat the culture of the republic as worthy of examination and perhaps celebration in its own right, as opposed to being merely an interlude leading to the advent of the Third Reich.

#Books #History #Germany #WeimarRepublic #Vertigo #20thCentury #InterwarHistory #Modernity #HaraldJähner #CulturalHistory

The Jeweller Karl Krall -- Otto Dix -- 1923 -- Oil on canvas -- Kunst und Museumsverien im Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal.

According to the 2006 exhibition catalogue "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s", Krall was not only, as a chamber music amateur, musical, but was also "musical", to use the term used in 1920s British English to describe gay men.

The catalogue entry suggests that beneath Krall's jacket, "there must be a corset that is much too tight. Severe discomfort makes the blood rush to Krall's face, turning it purple-red with bluish accents. Veins on his forehead seem ready to pop."

As with so many of the other portraits, I find myself fascinated by this picture. Is Dix's depiction of the hour glass figured jeweller a frank depiction of Krall's style in foundation garments, or does it function as the painter's possibly contemptuous verdict on male homosexuality?

#Art #Painting #Portrait #OttoDix #GermanArt #20thCenturyArt #NeueSachlichkeit #KarlKrall #Gay #Homosexual #Homophobia #Corset #TightWaisting #WeimarRepublic

I'm certain the calm voices in the room were certain it would all blow over soon, and the glorious Weimar Republic would emerge from the rubble caused by their obviously stupid and incompetent opponents who were simply taking advantage of temporary public outrage.

"Until the end of World War II in Europe in 1945, the Nazis governed Germany under the pretense that all the extraordinary measures and laws they implemented were constitutional; notably, there was never an attempt to replace or substantially amend the Weimar Constitution. Nevertheless, Hitler's seizure of power (Machtergreifung) had effectively ended the republic, replacing its constitutional framework with Führerprinzip, the principle that 'the Führer's word is above all written law.' ". - Wikipedia

Point to it on a map today. The hashtags are paired, for your convenience.

I despise the 2-party system that set us up to knock us down for the billionaire class.

#Germany #America
#Nazis #Republicans
#Hitler #Trump
#WeimarRepublic #Democrats
#Yanks #Nobody

@democratsabroad
@indivisibleteam

#USpol #Legal #Resist

*#5AlarmFire called by #LizOyer, former Pardon #Attorney 4the #DepartmentOfJustice*

What's been happening @ the #DOJ since the beginning of the #TrumpCoup sounds 2 me *exactly* line the #Alignment (#Gleichschaltung) of the #Justice System at the end of the #WeimarRepublic and the beginning of the 3rd Reich.

#Trump has almost every in place to start (mass) prosecutions of political opponents + personal enemies:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZwC8BEUvvEA

Timely #review article:
Frank Biess, Weimar in the World: Transnational and Global Perspectives on Germany’s First Democracy, in: The Journal of Modern History 97 (2025) 2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412

Concluding that the “contradictory crosscurrents of Weimar’s
global situatedness sound rather familiar in the context of our own predicament at
the beginning of the twenty-first century.”

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #GermanHistory #TransnationalHistory #WeimarRepublic #GlobalHistory

Timely #review article:
Frank Biess, Weimar in the World: Transnational and Global Perspectives on Germany’s First Democracy, in: The Journal of Modern History 97 (2025) 2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412

Concluding that the “contradictory crosscurrents of Weimar’s
global situatedness sound rather familiar in the context of our own predicament at
the beginning of the twenty-first century.”

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #GermanHistory #TransnationalHistory #WeimarRepublic #GlobalHistory

Timely #review article:
Frank Biess, Weimar in the World: Transnational and Global Perspectives on Germany’s First Democracy, in: The Journal of Modern History 97 (2025) 2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412

Concluding that the “contradictory crosscurrents of Weimar’s
global situatedness sound rather familiar in the context of our own predicament at
the beginning of the twenty-first century.”

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #GermanHistory #TransnationalHistory #WeimarRepublic #GlobalHistory

Timely #review article:
Frank Biess, Weimar in the World: Transnational and Global Perspectives on Germany’s First Democracy, in: The Journal of Modern History 97 (2025) 2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412

Concluding that the “contradictory crosscurrents of Weimar’s
global situatedness sound rather familiar in the context of our own predicament at
the beginning of the twenty-first century.”

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #GermanHistory #TransnationalHistory #WeimarRepublic #GlobalHistory

Timely #review article:
Frank Biess, Weimar in the World: Transnational and Global Perspectives on Germany’s First Democracy, in: The Journal of Modern History 97 (2025) 2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412

Concluding that the “contradictory crosscurrents of Weimar’s
global situatedness sound rather familiar in the context of our own predicament at
the beginning of the twenty-first century.”

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #GermanHistory #TransnationalHistory #WeimarRepublic #GlobalHistory

Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hyperinflation-heralded-the-fall-of-german-democracy-180982204/

#HackerNews #Hyperinflation #GermanDemocracy #Fall #History #EconomicCrisis #WeimarRepublic

We're always happy to give a boost to other local theaters showing interesting stuff, especially if it's silent--well, at least if it's not at the same time as one of our shows :)

Anyway, this Sunday, #TheRoxie is showing Menschen am Sonntag.

https://roxie.com/film/people-on-sunday-menschen-am-sonntag/

#SilentFilm #WeimarCinema #WeimarRepublic #SilentMovieDay

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 -

A ground-level look at the late Weimar Republic in Berlin and the diversity of lifestyles and politics as it falls apart. Stunning.

books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #3words #jasonlutes #berlin #graphicnovel #history #lgbtqia #weimarrepublic

https://buff.ly/4fGl4Xf

#UweWittstock's book "February 1933: The Winter of Literature" and #RobertMusil's "Literature and Politics" illustrate how many #WeimarRepublic writers compromised or fled to survive the rise of #fascism. Few actively resisted #Nazism, with most opting for silence or collaboration to avoid persecution. #BertoltBrecht and #JosephRoth are exceptions who recognized and opposed the threat early, while figures like #ErichKästner remained to document the era.

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/weimar-writers-fascism-book-review

People of the 20th Century

Workers of the Weimar Republic from the Photo Series by August Sander

1) Coal Carrier, Berlin, 1929
2) Cleaning Woman 1927
3) Traveling Carpenters, Hamburg, 1928
4) Dockworkers, 1929

#augustsander #workers #peopleofthe20thcentury #photoseries #coalcarrier #cleaningwoman #carpenters #dockworkers #photography #photographer #weimarrepublic #putzfrau #schauerleute #zimmerleute #fotografia #fotografie #vintagephotography #arbeitskräfte

People of the 20th Century

Blacksmiths from the Photo Series by August Sander

#augustsander #workers #peopleofthe20thcentury #photoseries #blacksmiths #photography #photographer #weimarrepublic #schmiede #fotografia #fotografie #vintagephotography #arbeitskräfte #germanphotographer

Jfc... when will this buying spree end...

I just noticed the insane value humble bundle deal for Call of Cthulhu, so even though I've been reading through Death in Space (and really wanna run that game now), running an RPG set in interwar period Berlin has long been a dream of mine...

Damn it!

#TTRPG #HumbleBundle #CallofCthuhlu #Berlin #WeimarRepublic

Jfc... when will this buying spree end...

I just noticed the insane value humble bundle deal for Call of Cthulhu, so even though I've been reading through Death in Space (and really wanna run that game now), running an RPG set in interwar period Berlin has long been a dream of mine...

Damn it!

#TTRPG #HumbleBundle #CallofCthuhlu #Berlin #WeimarRepublic

Jfc... when will this buying spree end...

I just noticed the insane value humble bundle deal for Call of Cthulhu, so even though I've been reading through Death in Space (and really wanna run that game now), running an RPG set in interwar period Berlin has long been a dream of mine...

Damn it!

#TTRPG #HumbleBundle #CallofCthuhlu #Berlin #WeimarRepublic

Jfc... when will this buying spree end...

I just noticed the insane value humble bundle deal for Call of Cthulhu, so even though I've been reading through Death in Space (and really wanna run that game now), running an RPG set in interwar period Berlin has long been a dream of mine...

Damn it!

#TTRPG #HumbleBundle #CallofCthuhlu #Berlin #WeimarRepublic

Jfc... when will this buying spree end...

I just noticed the insane value humble bundle deal for Call of Cthulhu, so even though I've been reading through Death in Space (and really wanna run that game now), running an RPG set in interwar period Berlin has long been a dream of mine...

Damn it!

#TTRPG #HumbleBundle #CallofCthuhlu #Berlin #WeimarRepublic

@Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

(12/13)

"...health continued to deteriorate in the late 1990s, the #oligarchs began to worry about who would be his successor."

And then the oligarchs made the same mistake that the more conservative parties of the #WeimarRepublic (Weimarer Republik) made with the #nobody #AdolfHitler: they thought they could control him:

"In 1999, Boris #Yeltsin and his #oligarchic allies agreed that an obscure former #KGB officer..."