Cultural changes

• How did Weimar culture change?

  No censorship

  • Architecture
  • Art - expressionism
  • Film/ Cinema
• How did architecture change?

  • Bauhaus school of design led to new developments, created by Walter Gropuis, 1919
  • Mendelson created Einstein Tower + Observatory in Potsdam
  • > architecture could became more futuristic
• How did art culture change?

  • Expressionist style showed harsh life of war veterans + poor behaviour in night life in Germany
  • Otto Dix painted expressionist versions of life + very critical of German society
• How did film and cinema culture change?

  • German films became very innovative
  • > "Metrapolis" - Directed by Fritz Lang, 1926
  • > "Cabinet of Dr Caligari" - one of world's first horror films
  • Finaced by Gov funded agency call UFA
• How many sound cinemas were there in Germany in 1932?

  3,800