Twilight of the gods

The period between 1900 and 1940 was characterized by a generation of brilliant poets, educationalists, composers, philosophers, dancers, authors and politicians. They saw their time as transitory and harbored revolutionary and religious dreams. Hence their radical rejection of the Weimar Republic. Antonia Grunenberg presents Walter Benjamin as one of the bravest European thinkers of his age who took on a leading role in German academia.