Bremner Fletcher

“Art is only art if it helps to change people, to move them forward. The Bauhaus.  Those who founded it, those who represented it, knew how to merge life and art, art and life.  Within us. The Bauhaus forever.”

“The…

February 1st, 1921, Amsterdam: "Dinner with Einstein. Talked about God and Humanity. I said: 'The human with his endlessly colourful fantasy and intelligence rests in God like the pearl in the oyster.' To which Einstein countered: 'On the contrary, the…

“Nazism seemed to many just an extreme version of what [most Germans] had always believed in or taken for granted. It was nationalistic, respectful of the armed forces, socially conservative, disdainful of laziness, hostile to eccentric or incomprehensive ideas that…

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The cover to Daniel Brook's new book on Hirschfeld

Listen to Bremner's two albums of Weimar Cabaret songs

https://songwhip.com/bremnerduthie/bremner-sings-weill

https://songwhip.com/bremnerduthie/bremner-sings-kurt-weill-vol-2-moon-faced-starry-eyed  

Magnus Hirschfeld and his carefully created dapper, yet slightly rumpled image 

The Institute…

Culture wars. They’re everywhere right now. The right wing screaming about the ‘woke’, as if liberal culture is the real problem in the world right now, and the left wing throwing the word fascist around, as if it meant simply…

"My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. ... I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands ... I drew lonely little…

“Berlin was in a state of civil war. Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere; at street corners, in restaurants, cinemas, dance halls, swimming-baths; at midnight, after breakfast, in the middle of the afternoon ... From 1929 to 1933…

"Conditions have taken a catastrophic turn here,” wrote Berlin resident Betty Scholem to her son in October 15, 1923. “This letter cost 15 million” marks to send, she said, and “it will be 30 million beginning the day after tomorrow.”…

              “let us consciously be ‘imaginary architects’! We believe that only a total revolution can guide us in our task.  Our fellow citizens, even our colleagues quite rightly suspect in us the forces of revolution.  Break up and undermine all former…

What do you get when you mix a bottle of Laphroaig Whiskey with three charming Weimar raconteurs? A freewheeling conversation that touches, among other topics, on the disturbing and the hopeful similarities of the Weimar period with our own days,…