Culture in WG

Question 1

How did WG encourage the film industry to develop

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Name one American movie

Answer 2

Gold Rush 1925 Charlie Chaplin silent movie

Question 3

Name two German movies

Answer 3

Blue Angel 1930 Marlene Dietrich

Metropolis 1926 by Fritz Lang

Question 4

How many people owned a radio bu 1932

Answer 4

1 in 4 Germans

Question 5

How did Cabaret mock the conventions of old Germany

Answer 5

Used satirical comedy, jazz to show social and political tensions

Question 6

One example of literature looking at social themes

Answer 6

All Quiet on the Western Front 1928- criticised WW1

Question 7

What type of movement emerged in theater

Answer 7

New objectivity left wing plays

Question 8

What was the Bauhaus movement

Answer 8

A new style of architecture and design-fictional and simple led by Gropius

Question 9

What new movment was linked to Weimar art

Answer 9

New objectivity

Question 10

Name two famous Weimar artists

Answer 10

Otto Dix and Georg Groz

Question 11

How did T of v affect culture

Answer 11

Led to cultural extermination and decadence