1. Why did culture and the arts
flourish during the Weimar era?

2. Typical 1920’s radio sets

3. The Leica Camera
The U.S. Eastman Kodak camera
brought photography to the
masses but the German
manufactured Leica camera
ushered in the age of
photojournalism.
August Sander
“unemployed man,” Cologne, 1928
Photographer August Sander
aimed to capture Germans and
humanity in all its diversity
focusing on Realism in the same
way as 19th Century French
Novelist Emile Zola.

4. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

5. Bertold Brecht
Kurt Weill

6. Hannah Hoch

7. George Grosz

9. Bauhaus architecture
Erich Mendelsohn’s Universum
Movie Theatre Berlin
Walter Gropius Bauhaus
building
Siemensstadt
Horseshoe
Berlin Britz housing
development

10. Thomas Mann.
Major works during Weimar era:
•Reflections of an Unpolitical Man
•Death in Venice
•The Magic Mountain
Reintroduced the concept of Bildung:
The belief in self-cultivation that would come through
engagement with great works of culture.
Believed people could only achieve Bildung in the
framework of the Republic.
Disciple of Nietsch

11. Philosopher Martin Heidegger

13. Illustrated weeklies from Weimar Germany.

14. Examples of political posters from the Weimar Era

15. Other notable Weimar cultural icons
Marlene Dietrich
Arnold Schoenburg
Greta Garbo