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- Cocaine was all the rage, though other drugs were legal and helped fuel the decade-long party. Germans famously love their beer. But during the heady days of the Weimar Republic, the decadent nightlife of Berlin in particular was fueled by something a lot stronger.
- Prostitution was deregulated and tens of thousands of women sold their bodies during the heady days of the Weimar Republic. The end of the First World War left many Germans financially ruined.
- Prostitution was like a candy shop – whatever you wanted, you could find on the streets of Berlin and in the city’s cabaret bars. Nobody can say for sure how many women turned to prostitution during the days of the Weimar Republic.
- Desperate men also turned to prostitution, and Berlin even became a tourism hotspot for Europe’s homosexual gentlemen. After the end of the war, young men flocked to Berlin in their thousands.
Dec 4, 2012 · In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse.
Aug 2, 2016 · Learn what defined the “new woman” in Weimar Germany and read about society's resistance to women’s changing roles in politics and the workforce.
In her book Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (Princeton), Tatar argues for the continuities between Weimar culture and the Nazi era that followed. Diverging from other humanities scholars, she connects the secret pathologies of the Weimar era to the fascistic rage that became public policy under Hitler.
Lustmord, a term derived from criminology and psychology, was the label assigned to such works, and the representation of the lust-murder of women by men became curiously ubiquitous in Weimar culture.
- Stephanie Bender
Jul 21, 2020 · In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse.
- Maria Tatar
- July 21, 2020
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Alarmed by the frequency with which mutilated female bodies appear in Weimar art, Tatar argues that works such as Fritz Lang's film M, paintings by Otto Dix and George Grosz, novels by Alfred Doeblin, and even contemporary press accounts of sex murders, reveal Lustmord to be at the heart of a modernist project of aes‐theticizing violence and "ma...
