A Rapid Rise and Sudden Fall

〰〰**Weimar Germany〰〰 

〰〰A Rapid Rise and Sudden Fall**〰〰

**1919–1933 | The Golden Era**

 **Art & Literature**

* Expressionist theater, Dada performances, Bertolt Brecht’s plays

  * Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking films

 **Science & Medicine**

•  Albert Einstein reshaping physics
•  Emil Kraepelin advancing psychiatry
•  Innovative treatments emerging from Berlin labs

 **Women’s Rights**

•   1919: Women’s suffrage enshrined in the Weimar Constitution
•   ~90 % female voter turnout in the 1920s
•  Women elected to the Reichstag
•  LGBTQ Activism

•   Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science publishing landmark research
•   Das 3. Geschlecht* and other periodicals giving voice to trans and non-binary people
•   Thriving gay bars, clubs, and cultural salons