A Berliner, however, in white tie and tails. Champagne in hand. A study in elegance, charisma and silkily ironic wit. A Jazz Age Berliner, that is, from the Weimar era. Wait, sorry. I got a little ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Berlin in the late 1920s was a dynamic, fast-paced city with a remarkably seedy underbelly. As the ...

Babylon Berlin is a new TV drama set in the artistically rich, if louche, pre-World War II Weimar-era Berlin. With lavish song and dance numbers and a fantastic soundtrack, it quickly became a hit in ...

Netflix has found another quality coproduction in Germany's "Babylon Berlin," a crime series and binge-worthy period piece. Set in Berlin, the decadent capital of the 1920s Weimar Republic, the show's ...

The celebratory atmosphere or Stimmung of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s-a heady mixture of decadence, anxiety, and ambiguity-remains a high point in the history of culture. Made popular with American ...

In the 1920s, Yiddish was more than just a lingua franca for East European Jewish émigrés; it was also a language of high culture, as demonstrated by a brilliant new book, “Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: ...

When I worked on Time magazine years ago, editors who weren’t satisfied with stories that writers had written would order up “new versions,” known as “NVs.” Over the years, I have been exposed to ...