Posted on May 19, 2022
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Tucholsky and Thomas Mann are the focus of this film as the most important representatives of German literature during the time of the Weimar Republic, around Read More
Posted on May 19, 2022
Paula Modersohn-Becker was the most important female artist of her day and one of the main forerunners of Expressionism. She lived in Worpswede, in the fens north-east of Bremen Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
This film describes the literature of Expressionism at the beginning of the 20th century. The authors Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke, as two of the most important representatives Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
Käthe Kollwitz was the most powerfully emotional German artist of this century; this film describes her life and work, and stresses the timelessness and humanity of her art. Its Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
This first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and works of the maligned German artist who was blacklisted by the Nazis for his paintings Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
What Do Those Old Films Mean? was originally a six-part series that aired on England’s Channel Four Television. The series was conceived by Noël Burch. It explores the early Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
Germany, the most prosperous nation in Europe, has come a long way since World War II. But economics is only a part of the picture. This program provides some Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
Rainer Maria Rilke’s supreme mastery of the German language, which he manipulated with an unprecedented subtlety and plasticity, forms the bedrock upon which his reputation as one of the Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
Behind 1900 Vienna’s façade of elegance and affluence, a new generation of artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers was struggling to escape the straitjacket of Austro-Hungarian society. In this vintage Read More
Posted on May 18, 2022
Jean-Louis Fournier’s film revisits Imperial Vienna at the turn of the century, a time and place that exploded in social and political change. This program recounts how the opulent Read More
