Germany’s first democracy, the Weimar Republic of 1919-1933, has long been regarded as a lesson in political failure. Lately, it has also been held up as a cautionary tale for the present. It emerged ...

Jason Lutes first started drawing Berlin, his epic graphic novel about the disintegration of the Weimar Republic, in 1996, when the topic seemed an esoteric choice for an American storyteller. The ...

Babylon Berlin is a new TV drama set in the artistically rich, if louche, pre-World War II Weimar-era Berlin. With lavish song and dance numbers and a fantastic soundtrack, it quickly became a hit in ...

"We didn’t just want to view Weimar from its ending,” exhibition curator Simone Erpel says Deutsches Historisches Museum/David von Becker When you think of the Weimar Republic, you likely envision a ...

Ghosts of Weimar Past is an au courant invocation of the cabarets and nightclubs of 20th-century Europe's Sodom & Gomorrah-- namely, the Weimar Republic Berlin. Though life may tire and uninspire you, ...

Whether they are on the East or West Coast this fall, American viewers have the opportunity to see a superb exhibition about the Weimar Republic—a multimedia show that is scholarly, in-depth and ...

L'Ostpolitik de Willy Brandt et de ses successeurs sociaux-démocrates comme chrétiens-démocrates à la chancellerie a consisté à prendre acte du statu quo avec le camp socialiste pour tenter ...

On November 9, 1918, the German Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the collapse of the German Empire from a balcony of the Reichstag building, declaring the first German Republic. The ...

The Komische Oper has reconstructed Jaromir Weinberger’s “Frühlingsstürme,” a show that was virtually erased by Nazi rule in Germany. By Joshua Barone BERLIN — It was an evening in late January 1933, ...

“Since the Weimar debate has continued to repeat itself, albeit with less intellectual brilliance,” Susan Sontag once wrote about the social chaos and unfettered artistic creativity that didn’t end ...