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=The cultural results of Weimar Germany during the golden twenties=

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__These are my 5 factors:__


 * Architecture- this consists of Walter Gropius & the Bauhaus**

The [|Bauhaus] is an art and architecture school in Germany that was open from the 1919 to 1933, basically throughout the “Golden Twenties”. The school existed in three German cities (Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932, Berlin from 1932 to 1933), under three different architect-directors (Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1927, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 to 1933). The Bauhaus was well known during the “Golden Twenties” because of its approach to design that it publicized and taught. The architect-director that I am going to study is Walter Gropius, as he was the founder of the Bauhaus, and was the architect-director during the “Golden Twenties”.




 * Art- this consists of Grosz & Expressionism**

“Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form”. Expressionism is has many art forms, expressionism can be shown as painting, literature, theatre, film, architecture and music. During the “Golden Twenties” many people had to show their emotions. George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada (a cultural movement that involved visual arts, literature, poetry, theatre & graphic design) and New Objectivity group (an art movement which arose in Germany in the early 1920s).He was well known especially for his caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s.




 * Music/theatre- this consists of the Threepenny Opera, by Kurt Weill**

The [|Threepenny Opera] (Die Dreigroschenoper) by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann à


 * Film- this consists of Fritz Lang & his films: Blue Angel, Metropolis & M**

The famed 1927 masterpiece Metropolis, Metropolis is a silent science fiction film. It was produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios and released in 1927 during the height of the Weimar Republic. It was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make. The screenplay was written in 1924 by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and addresses the ideological struggle between capitalism and communism.


 * //Golden twenties//**: The recovery of Germany, thanks to the German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann. Stresemann was Chancellor for a few months, then Foreign Minister. He believed Germany’s best chance for recovery came from working with other countries.

In September 1923 he told workers in the Ruhr to return to work. He accepted the Dawes Plan in 1924, and introduced a new German Mark, called the Rentenmark to make currency more stable. In 1925 the French and Belgium troops left the Ruhr. In October 1925 he agreed to the Locarno Settlement where the Western Borders of Germany were agreed, but not the Eastern. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in his field. In 1926, Germany joined the League of Nations, and became one of the permanent members of the council. In 1929, the Young Plan replaced the Dawes Plan- reparations would be reduced by ¼ of the amount, and Germany was given 58 years to pay them. The 6 years, from 1923 to 1929, were called the “Golden Twenties”, because Weimar Germany was overwhelmed with all forms of art.