Tag: Weimar Republic
November 9th Commemoration – An Ambivalent Day – Culture
from Gustav Seibt November 9th is an ambivalent day in the German historical calendar, everyone knows that. The proclamation of the republic in 1918, the Hitler putsch in 1923, the…
Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2021 – the winners. – Culture
The Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2021 goes to the film “Fabian or The Walk to the Dogs”. The prize has been awarded by the Günter Rohrbach Film Prize Foundation in…
Series “55 Voices for Democracy”: Mann’s Political Thoughts – Culture
Not a born democrat, but one who was convinced: Thoughts on the allegedly apolitical author Thomas Mann. In the autumn of 1940 the British radio broadcaster BBC asked the German…
Contemporary history as a collage: “February 33 – The winter of literature” – culture
For some years now, books have been popular that look at historical events as if through a prism, revealing a multitude of fates, stories and surprising connections. Florian Illies’ pre-war…
Hohenzollern dispute: who destroyed the Weimar Republic – culture
Who were the driving forces behind the destruction of democracy in the early 1930s? The Nazis, of course. The communists, even if their destructive role turned out to be quite…