They condemned Weimar Germany as a new Sodom and Gomorrah and attacked American influences, such as jazz music, as contributors to the decay. Some of the most important people in this area were Alban Berg, Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg, and many more. Still another influential affiliation of architects was the group A highrise of the German Borsig company, made in the spirit of brick expressionism by Weimar Germany also saw the publication of some of the world's first openly gay literature, from authors such as Toller was the leading German expressionist playwright of the era. He later became one of the leading proponents of The Weimar years saw a flourishing of political and grotesque cabaret which, at least for the English-speaking world, has become iconic for the period through works such as At the beginning of the Weimar era, cinema meant silent films. An elderly woman gathers vegetable waste tossed from a vegetable seller's wagon for her lunch, 1923. 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. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were among the founders of the Berlin Spartakusbund (Spartacus League) that evolved into the Communist Party of Germany. Before The film moves from the world of the slums to the world of the stock exchange and then to the cabarets and nightclubs–and everywhere chaos reigns, authority is discredited, power is mad and uncontrollable, wealth inseparable from crime.Politically and economically, the nation was struggling with the terms and reparations imposed by the A man reads a sign advertising "Attention, Unemployed, Haircut 40 pfennigs, Shave 15 pfennigs", 1927. Music by Mischa Spoliansky, original lyrics by Kurt Schwabach (1920) The Weimar Republic is the unofficial name given to Germany in the interwar period from 1919 to 1933, between the defeat of Germany in the Great War in 1918 and Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar culture. While many applauded these efforts, conservative and radical right-wing critics decried the new cultural products as decadent and immoral. The police identified 62 organized criminal gangs in Berlin, called Apart from the new tolerance for behaviour that was technically still illegal, and viewed by a large part of society as immoral, there were other developments in Berlin culture that shocked many visitors to the city. Prostitutes buy cocaine capsules from a drug dealer in Berlin, 1930. Educators may find our Analyzing Visual Images and Stereotyping teaching strategy useful for teaching the primary source images in this section. During the era of the Weimar Republic, Germany became a center of intellectual thought at its universities, and most notably The most prominent philosophers with which the so-called 'If we also include the German-speaking Vienna, during the Weimar years Mathematician New schools were frequently established in Weimar Germany to engage students in experimental methods of learning. In film, the visual arts, architecture, craft, theater, and music, Germans were in the forefront of the most exciting developments. There were an estimated 500 such establishments, that included a large number of homosexual venues for men and for women; sometimes transvestites of one or both genders were admitted, otherwise there were at least 5 known establishments that were exclusively for a transvestite clientele.Artists in Berlin became fused with the city's underground culture as the borders between cabaret and legitimate theatre blurred. German expressionism was not the dominant type of popular film in Weimar Germany and were outnumbered by the production of costume dramas, often about folk legends, which were enormously popular with the public.Silent films continued to be made throughout the 1920s, in parallel with the early years of sound films during the final years of the Weimar Republic. International Women's Union Congress in Berlin, 1929. Although not part of the Weimar Republic, some authors also include the …