82. Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

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Fri, 26 June

82. Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

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Katja Hoyer

Historian Katja Hoyer returns to Chalke History Festival to explore the dramatic story of Weimar; the German town that gave its name to a bold democratic experiment and later became entwined with the rise of Nazism. Home to cultural giants such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, and later overshadowed by the nearby Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar stood at the crossroads of art, politics and extremism. From 1919 to 1939, Hoyer traces the lives of ordinary citizens navigating revolution, creativity and creeping dictatorship; a powerful, human portrait of a society on the brink of catastrophe.