Cultural developments 1924-28 Flashcards
What changes were there in literature?
.Internal mental state.
.War, industrial labour.
.Herman Hasse, Arnold Zweig, Thomas Mann (1929 Nobel prize) - expressionist authors.
.Alfred Doblin - social working class life.
.All quiet on the Western Front - challenged Stab in the Back.
What changes were there in theatre?
.Experimental theatre, Theatre de Zeit magazine (1946).
.Brecht - broke fourth wall. Caucasian Chalk social - against upper class.
.Threepenny Opera - Jazz music influences.
.Play with music - socialist views - The beggars opera adapted by Brecht and Weill.
What changes were there in film?
.German Expressionism - WW1 banned foreign films.
.Visual distortion, hyper-expression - inner conflicts.
.Nosferatu.
What changes were there in art?
.Expressionism movement - vivid colours, abstract style - followed Die Brucke 1905.
.New Objectivity Movement - social comment - understood by ordinary.
.Dix - corruption, distortion, devastation of war.
.Grosz - 1926 Eclipse of the Sun - military, industrialists and politicians - greed, WW1 instability.
What changes were there in architecture?
.Modern architecture movement - innovative, functionalism, New Age.
.1919 - Bauhaus at Dessau - Gropius - architectural school.
.Tech, function/building key elements of design
.Klein - standardised minimum houses - but had modern elements.
What changes were there in cabaret?
.Newfound freedom, liberal ideas spread.
.Rural areas still conservative.
.El Dorado, 2/5 catered to gay audience, tolerated cross-dressing.
.Jazz music spread.
What changes were there in music?
.Modern Classical and Jazz - spread due to Cabaret.
.American influence - still only with young people in cities.
.Schoenburg, Weill, Burg.
.Expressionist composers - new to classical music.
What were German people’s views towards this?
.Focused in cities - a little to rural areas - radio/film.
.Unwelcome foreign influences, over indulgent, immoral.
.Women and children more freedom/expression.
