Wicked, Drunk, but Sharp - Shenja Lacher & Liliane Amuat Read Irmgard Keun & Joseph Roth

EIN FERNGESPRÄCH. SCENES FROM THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Key-Note: Matthias Mühling (Director, Lenbachhaus)

City lights and bobbed hair, Charleston and champagne - and the gathering storm of political tension: the exhibition "Ein Ferngespräch: Szenen aus der Weimarer Republik" at the Lenbachhaus (until 27 September 2026) tells the story of the interwar years through art. Works by Käte Hoch, Jeanne Mammen, August Sander, George Grosz and others capture the contradictory reality of the 1920s - caught between new beginnings and crisis. Literature of the period distilled that same atmosphere with rare clarity and no sentimentality.

Drawing on 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 of glittering nights, fragile lives and a society spinning out of control - literary snapshots of an era defined by wit, melancholy and political foreboding.

ADMISSION: €16 / €10
Organisers: Stiftung Literaturhaus // Lenbachhaus