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Culture Buff

Barry Humphries

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

A failed political experiment that began nearly 100 years ago, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), still holds considerable fascination for many people, particularly artists. The Republic’s so called ‘Golden Age’ from the mid-1920s was certainly a period of cultural innovation which, because it was utterly smashed by Hitler’s regime, is particularly regretted.

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