Carnegie Hall Announces BSAM Collaboration with 2024 Festival and Exhibition
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Carnegie Hall Announces BSAM Collaboration with 2024 Festival and Exhibition -
Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice
January–May 2024
Launching Jan 24’
Join us on a thought-provoking journey through artistic movements in classical music, jazz, cabaret, opera, art song, and more as we investigate the forces that led to the fall of the Weimar Republic— and the many lessons about the fragility of democracy that can be gleaned from its extraordinary collapse.
UPCOMING VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON EVENTS
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UPCOMING VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON EVENTS -
CARNEGIE HALL: Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice
The centerpiece of Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 season is a powerful exploration of one of the most complex and consequential chapters in modern human history: Germany’s Weimar Republic of 1919–1933. Even with a progressive new constitution and the adoption of democracy, Germany emerged from World War I into a period of overwhelming economic hardship, social inequality and unrest, political polarization, and extremism. These challenges paved the way for the opportunistic rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, ultimately leading to the outbreak of World War II and the horrific devastation and genocide that followed.
Yet despite the turmoil and upheaval of the Weimar period, the arts and culture flourished as artists sought bold and innovative avenues for creative expression and sociopolitical commentary. At the same time, a thriving and decadent nightlife provided desperately needed escapism from the struggles of daily life, becoming an essential part of the social fabric.
Join us on a thought-provoking journey through artistic movements in classical music, jazz, cabaret, opera, art song, and more as we investigate the forces that led to the fall of the Weimar Republic— and the many lessons about the fragility of democracy that can be gleaned from its extraordinary collapse.
“Carnegie examines the fragility of democracy. Democracy was young in Weimar Germany. Artists and politicians groped toward a better future, but tyranny turned out to be easier.”
Carnegie Festival Events
Carnegie Festival Events
Germany had a profound influence on the intellectual development and worldview of author and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Join us for four insightful online talks as we celebrate the release of Tim Fielder’s graphic novel adaptation of The Comet, a seminal work Du Bois wrote in 1920. Discussion topics include the themes of race and religion and the work’s standing within the Afrofuturist lexicon.
Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM (multiple dates)
Opening Night Talk with Tim Fielder, Reynaldo Anderson, and Julian Chambliss. Moderated by Calvin Reid of Publisher’s Weekly.
Aventureras showcases a collection of paintings by Mexican naïf artist Ximena Castro, who fearlessly confronts and challenges conventional notions of female sexuality while paying homage to the pivotal moment in history when women, fresh from the crucible of World War I, seized newfound freedoms, igniting an artistic renaissance during the Weimar Republic.
This project by Nkolo Ntyam and the Black Speculative Arts Movement Cameroon explores the impact of German colonialism in Cameroon and the Weimar Republic in Germany. The exhibition illuminates cultural intersections, colonial legacies, and their contemporary consequences, fostering dialogue between the two nations’ histories.
Available through June 30.