Berlin Jazz Festival was often called ‘Berliner Jazztage’. It was a jazz festival in Berlin, found by Berliner Festspiele. The festival was to reflex Berlin’s creative musical activity.
Erwin Piscator
He was born on 17 December 1893. He was was a German theatre director and producer. His memorable production was Revolt of the Fishermen.
Ernst May
Ernst May was a German architect and city planner. The Zig Zag style house that is set in Frankfurt,Germany was also designed by him. But when the Nazi seized power, May moved to Africa and came back to Germany near the end of his life.
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was his full name. He was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School. He was known as one of the pioneering modernist architecture expert.
Sigmund Freud
He was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. He had Jewish parents. He began his study of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1873.
Albert Eistein
Albert Einstein is theoretical physicist who was a German-born theological physicist. He had a Jewish background. With the fear of the Nazis, he didn’t return to Germany and went to US instead.
The Blue Angel
A German film which was originally called ‘Der Blaue Engel’ . It was directed by Josef von Sternberg. Also, the film took place in Weimar, Germany
Nosferatu
An example of a famous German Expressionist horror film. It was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting. It was used for emotional effect to provoke mood or ideas. Expressionist artists often used for creating emotional experience.
All quiet on the Western Front
A novel by Erich Maria Remarque. It was about the conditions of the world war soldiers, how they were after the war which most were mentally ill. Also, with some detail from the soldiers that went home after the war.
