Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present

by Michael H. Kater

Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany's most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz Liszt and the young Richard Strauss. In the early twentieth century, the Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar. But...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300170564
• ISBN13: 9780300170566
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"