For the intellectually adventurous, plays by the likes of Hauptmann, Wedekind, Bronnen and (the ‘degenerate looking’20) Brecht were on offer, as well as the latest works by Schoenberg, Hindemith or Richard Strauss. Bauhaus architecture, Expressionism, Dada and the searing caricatures of George Grosz disturbed and stimulated. As Mowrer put it, ‘You felt so intensely alive in Germany.’
culture in WG summed up
