Reactions to cultural experimentations

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	Reactions to cultural experimentations FOR/AGAINST
	Advantages Many germans welcomed the atmosphere of optimism and experimentation Art was used to convery political and social messahes to the ordinary people Peter Pulzer: "To many Germans, the energy, the experimentation, the chaotic creativity which made Weimar the envy and Mecca of so many foreigners represented cultural communism" Many felt that the arts should both reflect and help shape a new world - should be accessible to the masses Grosz painting - women who questioned role of women and feminism Expressionism developing alongside a new emphasis on social comment George Grosz and Otto Dix were part of the new objectivity 'Neue Sachlichkeit' movement which believed art should comment on society and be understood by ordinary people *Reaction against writing linked to the personal experience of the author in favour of lit with a social & political purpose Erich Maria Remarque's anti war novel 'All quiet on the western front' challenged the 'stab in the back' view Experimental mood evident in music - Schoenburg's use of atonality Musicians adopted Gerbrauchmusik (music with a practical purpose such as for a political rally or to dance to) Zeitopera (opera of the time) reflected modern issures from radical left view - famous Kroll Opera in Berlin New school of Zeittheatre (theatre of the time) employed realistic techniques to convey a critical message of bourgeois society Street theatre took political drama to the masses - Drama became an explicitly political art form with left wing plays such as Marxist Brecht who believed: 'a theatre that makes no contact with the public is nonsense'	Disadvantages Social and cultural change reinforced fears that the world was collapsing = Cultural decay - politicised by right Centre and nationalist campaigned against 'tides of filth' Nazis organised disruption of performances of unpariotic films such as all quiet on the western front Prominence of Jews was seen by right as proof of the harm of WR 1926 the Reichstag passed a law to 'protect youth from pulp fiction and p*nography' State government drew up lists of publications not to be sold under 18s - true crime, eotic mags, s*x ed books Reports of audiences booing experimental plays and concerts Public spending cuts from 1929 Some left wing artists criticised it as grey and uninspiring State used control of the radio to limit radical programmes Largely confined to towns 1932- 46% of households in large cities could recieve radio compared with 10% in small villages Art had psychological negativity on the regime
	Evaluation Cultural experimentation was met with cultural conservation - not only in Germany. This came from the fear of cultural decay.

Reactions to cultural experimentations FOR/AGAINST

Advantages

Many germans welcomed the atmosphere of optimism and experimentation
Art was used to convery political and social messahes to the ordinary people
Peter Pulzer: "To many Germans, the energy, the experimentation, the chaotic creativity which made Weimar the envy and Mecca of so many foreigners represented cultural communism"
Many felt that the arts should both reflect and help shape a new world - should be accessible to the masses
Grosz painting - women who questioned role of women and feminism
Expressionism developing alongside a new emphasis on social comment
George Grosz and Otto Dix were part of the new objectivity 'Neue Sachlichkeit' movement which believed art should comment on society and be understood by ordinary people
*Reaction against writing linked to the personal experience of the author in favour of lit with a social & political purpose
Erich Maria Remarque's anti war novel 'All quiet on the western front' challenged the 'stab in the back' view
Experimental mood evident in music - Schoenburg's use of atonality
Musicians adopted Gerbrauchmusik (music with a practical purpose such as for a political rally or to dance to)
Zeitopera (opera of the time) reflected modern issures from radical left view - famous Kroll Opera in Berlin
New school of Zeittheatre (theatre of the time) employed realistic techniques to convey a critical message of bourgeois society
Street theatre took political drama to the masses - Drama became an explicitly political art form with left wing plays such as Marxist Brecht who believed: 'a theatre that makes no contact with the public is nonsense'

Disadvantages

Social and cultural change reinforced fears that the world was collapsing = Cultural decay - politicised by right
Centre and nationalist campaigned against 'tides of filth'
Nazis organised disruption of performances of unpariotic films such as all quiet on the western front
Prominence of Jews was seen by right as proof of the harm of WR
1926 the Reichstag passed a law to 'protect youth from pulp fiction and p**nography'
State government drew up lists of publications not to be sold under 18s - true crime, e*otic mags, s*x ed books
Reports of audiences booing experimental plays and concerts
Public spending cuts from 1929
Some left wing artists criticised it as grey and uninspiring
State used control of the radio to limit radical programmes
Largely confined to towns
1932- 46% of households in large cities could recieve radio compared with 10% in small villages
Art had psychological negativity on the regime

Evaluation

Cultural experimentation was met with cultural conservation - not only in Germany. This came from the fear of cultural decay.

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