
The Weimar Spectacle
Exploring the extraordinary and astonishing social, political and cultural life of the Weimar Republic.
Produced by Bremner Fletcher, singer, actor and kabarett artist and obsessive lover of Weimar culture and history: http://www.bremnersings.com
Podcasting since 2023 • 11 episodes
The Weimar Spectacle
Latest Episodes
Intellectual Impresario of Weimar Berlin: Sexologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, "The Einstein Of Sex"
Today I’m interviewing Daniel Brook, the author of a new book on the pioneering sexual rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld, whose Berlin Institute of Sexual Science was a huge attraction in Weimar Berlin and was eventually destroyed by the Nazis,...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:21:46

Degenerate Art, Hitler's failed culture war and greatest modern art show ever
On 30 June 1937, Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister for Propaganda and Enlightenment, authorised the Director of the Reich Chamber for Culture, Adolf Ziegler, to select and confiscate paintings and sculptures from public collections for a majo...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:12

George Grosz + John Heartfield: avant-garde, anti-fascist artists
George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his political cartoons and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the Unit...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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36:04

Will the real Sally Bowles please stand up? Cabaret, the musical, the real lives behind it
“Berlin was in a state of civil war. Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere; at street corners, in restaurants, cinemas, dance halls, swimming-baths; at midnight, after breakfast, in the middle of the afternoon ... From 1929 to...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:08:15

The economic crisis that changed the world: Hyperinflation's catastrophe
On Oct 15th, 1923, Berlin resident Betty Scholem wrote to her son: “Conditions have taken a catastrophic turn here. This letter cost 15 million marks to send...and it will be 30 million beginning the day after tomorrow.” She estimated household...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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