Literature In Weimar Germany: 3D Gallery

Thomas Mann, A German essayist, novelist and short story writer who lived in Munich (A centre of art and literature in Weimar Germany ) until 1933 as he had to leave the country and move to Switzerland because of the political climate (he was a hardcore marxist). He is best known for winning the noble prize because of one of his popular books "buddenbrooks", his essays on Goeth, Wagner and Freud and another book of his titled "The magic mountain".

The Magic Mountain

This is a book by Thomas Mann originally published in 1924 (Germany). It was written as he was in Switzerland because of his wife living in a sanatorium because of a lung disease. The book reflects this experience and has been widely recognised as one of the most influential pieces of litterature of the 20th century.

Bertholt Brecht

Bertholt Brecht, a German Poet and playwright born in Bavaria in 1898 who also studied medicine became a very well known playwright during the Weimar period. His play "The three penny opera" was particularly well known during once it came out in 1928. When the nazi's took power over Germany he exhaled to Scandinavia and becameBrecht a prominent writer of the Exilitterature He expressed his opposition to the Fascist movements in his most famous plays: "Life of Galileo" and "Mother courage and her children"

Mother courage and her children

Mother courage and her children is widely considered to be the best anti-war plays of all time despite rarely appearing on stage. the play is--as you would expect--about a woman and her children during the 30 year war. It is a great example of Brecht's idea of "epic theatre".

The Three penny Opera

The three penny opera was written and published before the war broke out and enters around a poor antiheroic criminal living in victorian London and despite the poor initial public reaction to it, it became a great success.

Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque, A German novelist born in Osnabrück during the year of 1898. As a young man he was drafted into the army and he is famous mostly for his book "All quiet on the western front" published in 1929 in Germany that talks about his experience during WW1. He lived in his native country until 1932 where he left to live in Switzerland. His book was later banned in Germany under the new regime.

All Quiet on the Western front

This book is a fictionalised account of Remarque's own experience during WW1 on the western front, because of this it is horribly realistic and reasonably biographical. It centers a young man who is drafted into the army with some of his school friends. It depicts all their experiences, the few moments of happiness and all the graphic and terrible horrors of the trenches and war. It is widely considered to be one of the best anti-war books ever. This title also refers to the movie based on it that sort of took the word by storm when was released in 1930 in American theatres. This German perspective of the war wasn't exactly that welcome at the time, and therefore it gained some controversy, and so did the book in Nazi Germany, as it was banned and burned.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was born in Hannover in 1906, she was a philosopher, writer, political thinker and journalist. She studied at the university of Marburg and got her doctorate in philosophy and wrote a theses called "On love and Saint Augustine" at the university go Heidelberg during the year 1929.

Later in life after fleeing Germany in 1933 because of the persecution of jewish people or those of jewish heritage and obviously, the political climate. She was imprisoned in France and managed to escape in 1940. After this she stated that she now had dedicated herself to the jewish cause and after the war wrote about politics, the holocaust as well as starting a university career.

Some of her works include: "The human condition", "the origins of totalitarianism" and "Between past and future"

On Love and Saint Augustine

On love and Saint Augustine was Hannah Ardent's doctoral thesis. It talks about the concept of love in many ways that later appear in Ardent's later books and works. At the time it was published in Berlin it attracted critical interest.

Disorder and early sorrow

This book explores the effects of the hyperinflation that crippled Weimar Germany's economy. It was published in 1925. The story follows the lives of the Cornelius family through the perspective of Abel Cornelius a a middle aged professor at the local university, whose status in society was once highly respected but has diminished markedly.

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Literature In Weimar Germany