Germany's Golden Age

Question 1

When was the Golden Age?

Answer 1

1920s

Question 2

Entertainment before WWI

Answer 2

Kaiser kept tight control on entertainment

Question 3

Cinema

Answer 3

Very in Weimar
‘Metropolis’ - most technically adv. film of the decade
Marlene Dietrich became worldwide star playing glamorous, strong-willed women

Question 4

Nightlife

Answer 4

Centre for new plays, opera, theatre shows
Musicians performed vulgar songs about politicians
Clubs - dancers who appeared naked
Transvestite evenings where men dressed as women and women as men

Question 5

Literature

Answer 5

Writing - became big business
120 newspapers and magazines
“All quiet on the western front” - An anti-war novel sold half a million copies within 3 months

Question 6

Art

Answer 6

Avant Garde (new ideas) artists
Art showed reality of life & differences in social classes/society
Show what Ger. was like
Painted in way to criticise current events

Question 7

Design

Answer 7

New group of designers & architects
Known as Bauhaus - designed chair, coffee pots, buildings
Believed in modern, simple, practical designs

Question 8

Reactions

Answer 8

Nazi party again - ‘decadent and unpatriotic’
Eg. Jazz - american culture but fought against in war
Communists - Experimentation, luxury not reflecting needs of working class
Many ordinary peop. confused by changes in culture and unimpressed with new styles
Blamed new art for decline of moral standards in 1920s

Question 9

Berlin

Answer 9

Huge no. of night clubs

More emphasis on sex in entertainment