It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy?

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 emphasize Germany’s ...

The focal point of the German enlightenment, Weimar had been home to Goethe, Schiller, Liszt and Nietzsche, and was the ...

In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the upheaval, ...

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe is BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week for a fortnight. Art historian John-Paul Stonard's ...

It was a period of inflation and confrontation, of failed coups and armed uprisings, of assassinations and reparations, of repression and the Great Depression, of reaction and reform. There was an ...

It is difficult not to fall in love with the young Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, as painted by Europe’s premier portraitist at the time of her wedding, in 1526. A young, grey-eyed, pale-skinned ...

In Weimar Berlin, the stars seemed to align for German Jewish photographer Marianne Breslauer. Born into a family of art lovers, Breslauer was encouraged to pursue photography. She had been a pupil at ...

What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics? It ...