#weimar republic

Mädchen in Uniform (1958)

Directed by Géza von Radványi

A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.

Lady with a Cat 1920s

Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976)

German Artist

During the 1920s Berlin was home to a vibrant lesbian subculture. An astonishing number of bars, clubs, groups and periodicals catered to women who loved women, and cabaret acts dealt explicitly with the theme of lesbian love. This watercolour by Jeanne Mammen from c. 1927 captures something of the androgynous look popular at the time.

Carnival in Berlin-1930

Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976)

*Followed on the heels of an authoritarian empire, check

*did a manifestly insufficient job at dismantling the power structures that existed in the empire's time, leading to largely unchecked violent reactionary forces, check. I'm sure this will not bite us in the ass in any way.

*was marred by infighting between the centre-left and the far left, check??? I don't actually know enough about the new republic to comment on the various factions. Did Mon Mothma enlist former storm troopers to massacre the space spartacists? discuss.

*was overthrown by a violent, fascist regime intent in part on restoring the "glory days" of the old empire

In 1918, Germany lost the First World War. By the end of the war, uprisings and revolutions had broken out across the country. Many German revolutionaries followed the example of the revolution that had erupted in Russia in 1917, which led to a bloody civil war that lasted until 1922 and ended with the proclamation of the Soviet Union. In Germany, it did not go that far. With the help of the…