Tag: Weimar Republic
Was the hyperinflation of 1923 really such a lasting trauma? – Business
It was the time when bundles of banknotes were burned because you couldn’t do anything else with them. It was the time when an egg cost 300 billion marks, when…
Hyperinflation, distress, coup attempts: new books about the year 1923 – culture
In his Christmas message to the German people at the end of 1923, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, who had been in office for less than a month, had little good news…
Harald Jähner’s book “Höhenrausch” about the Weimar Republic – culture
Of Gustav Seibt Following the author’s method, what is so good, so new and exciting about Harald Jähner’s book on the Weimar Republic has to be demonstrated with an example.…
Film series “Seeing Weimar”: Rise of the tyrants – culture
The film begins grimly – civil war in the Crimea, after the Russian revolution: “Fanatical fighters on both sides. Hunger and misery in the country. Easy earnings for unscrupulous existence.”…
Defenseless Republic: The murder of Foreign Minister Rathenau 100 years ago – Society
100 years ago, right-wing extremists murdered the liberal German foreign minister, Walther Rathenau. About a deep cut in the short life of the Weimar Republic and the parallels that can…
The network of the right: the murder of Walther Rathenau 100 years ago – politics
The year is 1922, a political murder has taken place. The victim is the Secretary of State. After their crime, which they committed on a June day in Berlin, the…
From Eisner to Selensky: Anti-Semitism against Jewish politicians. – Culture
One evening in early April 1922, Walther Rathenau received a visitor. Around eight o’clock Albert Einstein rang the bell at his front door. He had brought with him Kurt Blumenfeld,…
The books of the month April: Crises in these times – culture
Wole Soyinka: The happiest people in the world In the late work of 87-year-old Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author takes us into the intricate expanses of a story that an…
This is how democracies can prevail against autocracies – opinion
The free world faces two attacks at once: from outside by states like Russia or China and from within by anti-democratic parties. It sometimes seems as if some people have…
Leonhard F. Seidl’s historical thriller “Vom Untergang” – Munich
At first glance it looks like a hearty idyll: the philosopher Oswald Spengler, famous for his work “The Fall of the West”, goes fishing. In the summer of 1922 he…