This has led to a phenomenon Smith described as the “Cabaret syndrome.” She was speaking at a book launch in early May to mark the publication of her latest work, The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: ...

Benjamin Carter Hett’s 'The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic' shows how a flawed but genuine democracy could give way to the vilest regime ...

Combining the study of film, history, social movements, psychopathology and art, ‘Weimar Film and Culture’ presents a portrait of Germany at its moment of greatest cultural crisis: between WWI and ...

The 1918–19 German Revolution is too often overlooked in the history books that chronicle social breakdowns in the Weimar Republic. Fortunately, “The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its ...

During the Weimar Republic, an art movement that looked at the nation with a cool eye developed in Germany. Labeled Neue Sachlichkeit-- new objectivity -- it reflected the resignation and cynicism ...

His other films explored Weimar culture in “Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture,” featuring Arthur Koestler, Christopher Isherwood, and Louise Brooks; “LA Suggested by the Art ...