Traces of the Weimar era linger for those who know where to look, because this museum isn’t in the place you’d expect.
Don’t go searching for Berlin’s newest museum among the imposing neoclassical monuments of Museum Island. You would be looking in entirely the wrong place. Dedicated to the works of George Grosz, the most celebrated artist of 1920s Weimar-era Berlin,is on the other side of town, hidden behind a high wall on a rather seedy thoroughfare where trains rush along the elevated railway.
Until the museum opened last year, there was no Berlin venue where visitors could go to immerse themselves in Grosz’s work, although he is represented in several of the city’s museums. Das Kleine Grosz Museum is an attempt to change that.“Grosz was born here, he died here, he created his most important works here,” says Kemper. “Why is there no [dedicated] museum here?”
Grosz primarily depicted the working lives of Berliners in the 1920s, such as this lithographe from 1921 from the portfolio “Im Schatten” .“That period exerts a fascination on people,” says Arne Krasting of Zeitreisen, which offers walking tours to 1920s hotspots. He says that TV series such as“In German they’re referred to as the Golden 20s, which I don’t like – it underestimates the suffering of the many poor and the difficult politics of the time,” he says.
The era’s excesses may live on in legend but finding physical traces of those days can be difficult. Among the key venues still easily accessible is the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm near the Friedrichstrasse station. In 1928, Bertolt Brecht’sbecame an instant hit when it debuted here; almost 100 years later, the play is still regularly performed on the same stage.Getty
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