Weimar: Beyond Gloom and Glitter

June 27, 2013

Our view of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933) has been conditioned by its successor, the Third Reich.  Weimar calls to mind images of decadence, the acidic cabarets of Berlin and the discordant songs of Weil and Brecht, not to mention the brutal visions of post-war degeneration and gluttony painted by George Grosz and Otto Dix.  This …