Cutural Changes

Question 1

What was a big change that affected culture ?

Answer 1

Remove of the extreme war time censorship

Question 2

How did German art change during this period ?

Answer 2

• previously tended to be removed from everyday life now it focused on everyday life
• wanted to be understood by everyone and they tried to depict society in a new way called ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’
• George Grosz, veteran and painted disabled war veterans struggling showing no control over their life
• Otto dix- tried to show the uglier side of life

Question 3

How did architecture change/ flourish during this period ?

Answer 3

• the new approach was very different form the pre war elaborative and decorative style of Germany
• Bauhaus movement(architects who designed new things)
• basic shapes and colors
• development of new buildings and bold designs

Question 4

What was the period 1924-29 like for cinema in Germany ?

Answer 4

It was a golden age
- film: Metroplosis was released which was the most technically advanced film for the time
- The film the cabinet of Dr Caligari was a horror film but it’s underlying message was anti war and anti military

Question 5

What was this period like for literature? Think for both right and left

Answer 5

This period saw both right and left writers
- on the political right, highly critical of German democracy and glorified the First World War
- on the left, very anti war such as all quiet on the western front which depicts the horrors of war and was turned into a successful film.

Question 6

What was this period like for theatre ?

Answer 6

New emergence of operas and plays
- zeittheater and Zeitooer which are theaters and operas and featured greater realism
- in one opera called the salesman of Berlin, street sweepers sweep away the worst features of 1918 money, a steel helmet representing Germany’s defeated army and a body of the man who wore it repressing old Germany