After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in ...

On Feb. 26, 1933, The New York Times profiled the political leader likely to dominate Germany moving forward. It’s not who you think. It was Alfred Hugenberg whom Emil Lengyel, a journalist and social ...

Editor: The dynamics of the current presidential race are starting to remind me of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Political dysfunction, inflation, and a sharply divided electorate bedeviled the ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Berlin in the late 1920s was a dynamic, fast-paced city with a remarkably seedy underbelly. As the ...

Netflix has found another quality coproduction in Germany's "Babylon Berlin," a crime series and binge-worthy period piece. Set in Berlin, the decadent capital of the 1920s Weimar Republic, the show's ...

The more things change the more they stay the same; our modern inflationary currencies are beginning to mirror that of Weimar. In the early 1920s, the value of the papiermark (the native currency of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The citywide Weimar festival—which runs through early June—explores one of the ...