The German city of Weimar – home to Liszt [pictured], Goethe and Schiller – was at the forefront of the Romantic movement. On a Monday morning in the corner of a beautiful park in a provincial German ...

“Magnificent Rebels,” by Andrea Wulf, paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics: brilliant intellectuals and poets who could also be petty, thin-skinned and self-involved.

After Germany was unified, we got Sturm, Drang, Weimar Classicism and Goethe. Theater had a slow start in Germany, mainly because Germany wasn't a thing until *relatively* recent times. After ...

In the standard film histories Weimar is synonymous with Expressionism, a movement that began in painting and theater and grew to include the exaggerated shadows, wildly stylized acting and doom ...

De kleine Thüringse stad Weimar werd in 1572 de hoofdstad van het hertogdom Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach. Over een langere periode nam de culturele importantie van de stad toe met een bloeiperiode in de ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both ...