Tansel Akzeybek, left, and Vera-Lotte Boecker at the top of the stairs in “Frühlingsstürme,” onstage in Berlin for the first time since its premier in the twilight of the Weimar Republic.

A republic was established in its place. Elections were held in January 1919, but Berlin , engulfed in revolutionary fire — where a short-lived communist uprising had broken out — was not a ...

Uprooting this image of Weimar Germany will take some work, because it has been with us far longer than “Babylon Berlin.” It was Cold War politics that cemented this two-dimensional memory of ...

1931 Berlin, Germany "Kabaret der Komiker" (Cabaret of Comedians), or KadeKo, was the most famous of Weimar Berlin's later cabarets. KadeKo featured populist entertainment with a left-leaning ...

A republic was established in its place. Elections were held in January 1919, but Berlin , engulfed in revolutionary fire — where a short-lived communist uprising had broken out — was not a ...

It was spring of 1920, and troops were marching on Berlin. Conservative officers, who had helped the Weimar Republic defeat communist insurgents, were now turning on the politicians who led the ...

Weimar Germany's fate unfolds amid interwoven narratives in extraordinary 'Berlin' at Court Theatre Director Charles Newell’s production is a thrillingly staged piece of theater, uncannily ...

Drawn & Quarterly, 580 pp., $49.95. Jason Lutes first started drawing Berlin, his epic graphic novel about the disintegration of the Weimar Republic, in 1996, when the topic seemed an esoteric ...

The new show at Court Theatre, a world premiere simply titled “Berlin,” ranges further back into the heart of the Weimar Republic, and centers not just the denizens of a nightclub but a whole ...