Это была дисциплина daring Expressionist canvases, brilliant book design, of Bauhaus total work of art, pioneering psychology, drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich's rising star in theater and silent film. Кроме paroxysms of world wars, Berlin в 1920s был carpe diem cultural heyday, replete with groundbreaking art, invention, and thought. Это kniha inmerses readers in freewheeling spirit of Berlin's Weimar age. Через виняткові роботи в окраске, soculpture, архитектуры, graphic design, photography, и фильм, не закрывают инноваций, мыслей, и драгоценные dreams, що характеризується цією унікальною культурною window. We таке в jazz bars and dance halls; the crowded kinos and flapper fashion; the advances in technology and transport; the radio towers and rumbling trams and trains; the soaring buildings; the cinematic masterworks; and the newly independent women who smoked cigarettes, wore their hair short, and earned their own money. Featured works in this vivid cultural portrait include Hannah Höch's Journalists; Lotte Jacobi's Hands on the Typewriter; Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von Harden; Peter Behrens's Project Alexanderplatz; and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel, starring Dietrich как cabaret performer Lola Lola. Почти все, что explodovat utopian yearnings и более неизбежные экономические и политические обстоятельства, которые приводят к этому естествоискателю, idealistická, или реакция masterworks. При скромных светах и глухих деревьях, висить inflation, factory labor, and fragile political consensus that lurked beneath this golden era and would eventually spell its savage end with the rise of National Socialism.