Tag Archives: Robert Wiene

THE WEIMAR “LAST TRANCE” CABARET: Escaping to Feed Your Head

For Walter Benjamin, this was the real significance of the First World War, “an attempt at a new and unprecedented commingling with the cosmic powers.” He worried that mankind’s alienation from itself was deepening “to such a degree that it … Continue reading

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SLEEPWALKING IN WEIMAR: Hypnosis in the Asylum

Quoting Hesse’s Steppenwolf -‘Human life is reduced to hell only when two ages two cultures overlap. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught between two ages with a consequence it looses all power to understand itself and … Continue reading

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