ABSTRACT
Far from being a distinct phenomenon which can easily be described and, Weimar culture was bewildering, irritating and often unclear in its main tendencies and currents. Weimar Germany’s cultural achievements were in large part brought about by the work of those who were forced out of Germany in 1933. The excitement and activity of the Weimar years resulted from the synthesis between a ripe new culture and a new political system in which freedom of art and expression could flourish as never before. The left-wing intellectuals rejected the existing Weimar Republic because it had not realized their early dreams of good and democratic government. The positive idea of Weimar culture is associated with great names in literature like the brothers Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht and Hermann Hesse, and many others who were later forced to leave the country. The Weimar Republic was also the time in which literature was represented by some of the greatest German authors of the twentieth century.
