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Travel: The heartland of a nation torn apart by history Home to high culture and Hitler's favourite hotel, Weimar is regaining its former glory amidst social conflict.
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FOR A TOWN with such a resonant name, Weimar is surprisingly
small. Bach, Goethe, Schiller and Liszt all made it their home.
The great Reformation painter, Cranach the Elder, spent his final
year here in 1553. By the 19th century, Weimar had become synonymous
with the Enlightenment. In the 1920s, it was the first home of the
Bauhaus school of design.
I had long wanted to see why so much European Culture flourished
in a place the size of Godalming. The answer, I discovered, lies
partly in Weimar's old aristocracy. Like all small German city
states ("pumpernickel principalities", historian ...
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New Light on Weimar.(Weimar, Germany)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; This year's European Cultural Capital; Weimar is not only playing up its celebrated...schedules, comprising more than 1,200 pages. Weimar does not appear among the cities listed...years, attempted to persuade a friend of Weimar's virtues by posing the rhetorical question...
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The once and future Bauhaus. (two exhibitions of Bauhaus art in Weimar and Dessau, Germany)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...recent exhibitions, one originating in Weimar and the other in Dessau, highlighted the...modern era. The 14 years (1919-33) of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first, failed experiment...utopian institute. This path leads from Weimar, where the Bauhaus was founded in 1919...
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It's not Weimar all over again: the strengths of German democracy.
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...German unrest in the context of the 1919-33 Weimar Republic. The comparison suggests the...unsafe and unwelcome. Bonn, however, is no Weimar. The foundations of democracy in today...the spectrum of political parties. In Weimar, democracy was a terrified rabbit beset...
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The other Bauhaus. (exhibition at the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum in Berlin)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...The Bauhaus started as a state school in Weimar but after a 1924 local election win for...a private Bauhaus school to remain in Weimar but he did at least manage to retain sole...Gropius-designed Dessau school. Back in Weimar the government of Thuringia invited Otto...
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Charges shuttle back and forth at border.
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal
; ...company is spilling into the streets. John Weimar and his wife, Natalie, have been picketing...running a shuttle bus into Tijuana. The Weimars started the shuttle bus service for tourists...across again it could be confiscated, John Weimar said. Weimar said pressure from another...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...376.$45.00. The political history of the Weimar Republic is one of considerable complexity...Feuchtwanger's successful treatment of Weimar politics is weakened, however, by neglect...successful effort at a synthetic survey of Weimar history, a more accurate subtitle for...
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A national acoustics; music and mass publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9780816640423 A national acoustics; music and mass publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Currid, Brian. U. of Minnesota Press 2006...demystify stereotypes of the musical culture of Germany during the Weimar and Nazi periods. He provides new ways of thinking about the...
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Weimar Cinema's Greatest Hits.(Home Video)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; As the century draws to a close, Weimar Germany increasingly seems the principal...Soviet Union of the 1920s, the ill-fated Weimar Republic feels closer to us. Dynamic and...rising industrial unemployment. Socially, Weimar witnessed the birth of many changes still...
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Das 'deutsche Buch' in der Debatte um nationale Identitat und kulturelles Erbe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...based on a series of lectures given in Weimar, literally in the shadow of the fire-ravaged...second treating specifically the role of Weimar, and a third addressing questions of preservation...later dramas remain just that and no more. Weimar was, however, not only associated with...
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Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar. By LIESELOTTE KURTH-VOIGT. (Studies in...reincarnation was surprisingly popular in Weimar. Taking one's lead from Kant's sharp distinction...just a private belief: it was a part of Weimar's public philosophy and aesthetics. In...
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