Weimar : from Enlightenment to the present /

Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany's most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kater, Michael H., 1937- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) > History. Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) > Intellectual life. Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) > Politics and government. Social change > Germany > Weimar (Thuringia) > History. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. HISTORY / Social History.

Table of Contents:

A Weimar Golden Age, 1770 to 1832
Promising the Silver Age, 1832 to 1861
Failing the Silver Age, 1861 to 1901
The Quest for a "New Weimar," 1901 to 1918
The Weimar Bauhaus Experiment, 1919 to 1925
Weimar in the Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1933
Weimar in the Third Reich, 1933 to 1945
Buchenwald, 1937-1945
Weimar in East and West Germany, 1945 to 1990
Weimar after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1990 to 2010
Epilogue.