Cultural Experimentation

Question 1

Describe culture in the Weimar Republic

Answer 1

Influence by international developments Mass (popular culture)

Question 2

How did the Weimar Republic encourage the film industry to develop?

Answer 2

UFA was a government organised film company dominating the German film market

Question 3

Name some American movies that had an impact?

Answer 3

Gold Rush 1925- Charlie Chaplin silent movie

Question 4

Name two German movies

Answer 4

1. Blue Angle 1930 (Marlene Dietrich)

2. Metropolis 1926 by Fritz Lang

Question 5

How many people owned a radio by 1932?

Answer 5

One in four Germans

Question 6

How did Cabaret mock the conventions of old Germany?

Answer 6

Used satirical comedy, jazz, semi nude dancers, show cases social and political themes

Question 7

One example of literature looking at social themes

Answer 7

All Quiet on the Western Front 1928- criticised WW1

Question 8

What type of movement emerged in theatre?

Answer 8

New Objectivity became Zeittheatre- left wing plays

Question 9

Example of a playwright

Answer 9

Brecht- used innovative techniques to introduce protest and politics into plays

Question 10

What was the Bauhaus movement?

Answer 10

A new style of architecture and design- functional and simple designs. Led by Walter Gropius

Question 11

What new movement was linked to Weimar art?

Answer 11

New Objectivity

Question 12

Name two famous Weimar artists

Answer 12

Otto Dix and Georg Grosz

Question 13

What messages were these artists getting across?

Answer 13

Strong political and social messages. Critical of German degradation

Question 14

How did the Treaty of Versailles affect culture in the W. Republic?

Answer 14

Let to cultural and social experimentation and decadence