Weimar culture

The Blue Angel (1930) was directed by Josef von Sternberg.

"Weimar culture was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933. 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar culture. Although not part of the Weimar Republic, some authors also include the German-speaking Austria, and particularly Vienna, as part of Weimar culture. Germany, and Berlin in particular, was fertile ground for intellectuals, artists, and innovators from many fields during the Weimar Republic years. The social environment was chaotic, and politics were passionate. ... Leading Jewish intellectuals on university faculties included physicist Albert Einstein; sociologists Karl MannheimErich FrommTheodor AdornoMax Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse; philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Edmund Husserl; political theorists Arthur Rosenberg and Gustav Meyer; and many others. ..."






Prostitutes buy cocaine capsules from a drug dealer in Berlin, 1930. 
The capsules sold for 5 marks each.

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