Podcast 62: Eric Weitz’s WEIMAR GERMANY
March 11th, 2008
We talk with historian Eric Weitz about WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy. On the one side, there was Bauhaus, Expressionism, Magnus Hirschfeld and new freedom for gays and women, a vital and experimental theater–in short, an explosion of intellectual and artistic creativity. On the other: hyperinflation, economic depression, and bullies of the left and right rampaging in the streets, setting the stage for the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. We explore both sides of Weimar Germany and what lessons it may hold for us today.
Also, a preview of Spring…we listen to robins and other birds with renowned bird biologist Donald Kroodsma, author of THE SINGING LIFE OF BIRDS.
Tags: bauhaus birdsong donald_kroodsma eric_weitz experimental_theater expressionism history hyperinflation kroodsma magnus_hirschfeld nazi_germany Nonfiction ornithology Podcast weimar weimar_germany
