David Bowie admitted he borrowed a lot of the appeal from the musical 'Cabaret' throughout the 1970s when crafting stories ...

“When you mention the Weimar Republic, what do most people think of? The movie Cabaret,” said Smith, referring to the highly ...

Any account of Germany’s economically embattled, politically fractured and culturally avant-garde Weimar Republic is haunted by the same, insistent question: How could Weimar fail and Hitler ...

Jähner’s book opens during the chaos of November 1918 and ends with the Nazi takeover of power in 1933. Contrary to conventional perceptions of Weimar as a democracy doomed to fail from the ...

Weimar Berlin's depraved, ... a program supported by the German government to promote German language and culture. “Back in 1994, ...

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 ...

A kitschy village in Weimar Germany, painted shortly before Hitler’s failed coup, reveals a society in free fall The German artist Georg Scholz (1890-1945) painted this picture of a small ...

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 ...

Gary Conklin, an L.A.-based documentary filmmaker who covered subjects including art, literature and cinema, died Dec. 26. He was 92. Born in Fresno, Calif., Conklin grew up in San Francisco and ...

Over the past few weeks, this reviewer has been on a binge, tele-drunk on “Babylon Berlin,” the noirish Weimar-era dramatic series abruptly abandoned by Netflix after three seasons, despite ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both ...