Many years ago, I started my musical career singing, or maybe I should say screaming, with a Punk band, then eventually, through some very complicated in-between steps, I ended singing Opera, then on to musical theatre, then swinging it with…
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Episode 3: All Change Is Revolutionary: The Radical Roots of the Weimar Republic
On October 29th, 1918, only a few days before the official end of WW1, in Kiel, a naval port on Germany’s northern coast, sailors in the German Imperial Navy staged a mutiny that would spark revolutions across Germany,…
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Episode 2, A Weimar Love Affair, Berlin's Ravishing Streets
Today I was planning an episode on the revolutions that began the Weimar Republic, how they came out of the devastation of WW1, and how the catastrophe of WW1 made a place for radical new beginnings. But, honestly, I can’t…
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Episode 1 - Why Give A Damn About The Weimar Republic?
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Welcome to The Weimar Spectacle, where I explore the brief and extraordinary life of the Weimar Republic. I’m Bremner Fletcher, singer, actor and theatre maker. I’ve spent years performing songs from the Weimar period and…
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