Tag: Germany

Agriculture. – Although the state has devoted greater importance to the development of the industrial sector, the share of agriculture on the total national income has risen in fifteen years from 10 to 14% (to the detriment of the tertiary sector). The number of employees, on the other hand, has decreased over the last seven […]

Literature under National Socialism As early as the Weimar Republic, “völkisch” literature continued to exist alongside literature oriented towards the modern industrial world and international developments. O. Spengler’s “Downfall of the Occident” (2 volumes, 1918–22) provided the historical-philosophical theory for a scale of values ​​that was hostile to progress and rejected the metropolis (especially Berlin), industrialization and […]

The literature of the Weimar Republic After the collapse of the empire, it soon became apparent that all visionary models of practical or spiritual world change were futile. In the Weimar Republic, writers were exposed to the greatest economic uncertainty, their role in the upheaval in society and the reputation of modern literature were negligible. […]

Music in the GDR In the GDR, the Association of German Composers and Musicologists, founded in 1951, began to put into practice the theory of socialist realism developed in Soviet art. It was about the popular character and comprehensibility of the musical statement against so-called formalistic tendencies (formalism debate) in the West, which manifested itself […]

The car city of Stuttgart surprises with its wines and greenery. Stuttgart is not only home to Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, but also a lively metropolis surrounded by wine slopes. In lively Stuttgart, Germany, you will get to know the car industry, taste wines and enjoy the atmosphere of a big city. German green car city […]