weimar culture
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- Weimar culture
- experimentation
- proclaimed the freedom of the arts and scholarship
- newly democratized governments became a source of patronage, favoring the performance or display of avant-garde
- The avant-garde
- bauhause, broke down the barriers between art and science
- modernistic style meant novelists stood for frankness and bitter social comment
- bertolt brechts theatre in berlin became one of the most progressive in europe
- artistic movement focused on depicting the factual. horrors of war and the plight of the poor
- impact of the avant-garde
- the various styles nevver dominated cultural output in terms of public performances, exhibitions or best seller lists
- most directors wanted their audiences to be in the middle with their tastes
- mass culture
- radio
- Cinema
- late 1920s 5000 cinemas
- in 1928 350 million cinema tickets were sold
- many were concerned with popular escapist themes
- opposition to modernism
- many on the right believed that weimrs culture was degenerate, debased by foreign and Jewish influence and a threat to traditional culture
- church organisations campaigned against immorality in modern life such as ***********, prostitution or homosexuality
- most Germans preferred traditional culture
- experimentation
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