»Böse, besoffen, aber gescheit« Shenja Lacher & Liliane Amuat lesen Irmgard Keun & Joseph Roth

A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION. SCENES FROM THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Key note: Matthias Mühling (Director Lenbachhaus)

Big city and bob, Charleston and champagne - and looming political tensions: The exhibition "A Long-Distance Conversation: Scenes from the Weimar Republic" at the Lenbachhaus (until September 27, 2026) tells the story of the period between the world wars through its art. Works by Käte Hoch, Jeanne Mammen, August Sander, George Grosz and others show the contradictory reality of the 1920s between upheaval and crisis - an atmosphere that is condensed in the literature of the time as clear-sightedly as relentlessly. With texts by Irmgard Keun ("Das kunstseidene Mädchen", "Kind aller Länder" and others) and Joseph Roth ("Hotel Savoy", "Die Kapuzinergruft" and others), Shenja Lacher and Liliane Amuat read about dazzling nights, fragile life plans and a society in turmoil; literary snapshots of an era between humor, melancholy and political foreboding.

Organizer: Stiftung Literaturhaus // Lenbachhaus