AKT VOR DEM SPIEGEL.png 449 × 909 1.06 MB. Through a tripartite coalition between Heinrich De Fries’s mimesis theory, Michel De Certeau’s flâneur and Karl Grune’s 1923 expressionist city film Die Straße (The Street), the paper explores the cinematic representation of a once-divided metropolitan city. Media in category '1915 paintings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner' The following 22 files are in this category, out of 22 total. This paper highlights the vivid forms of the expressionist city – Berlin’s roaring twenties – arising from the alchemy between dark representations and the urban experience.

On a parallel ideological level, the rapidly changing phenomenon of cities had great influence on artists, poets, writers and filmmakers who found metropolitan street life to be the stage of the magic and chaotic energy then known as city films. Its fragmented urban, architectural and spatial character has been depicted as dream-like, chaotic and negatively disordered. German expressionism had a metaphorical symbolic relationship with the city and the built environment, as Germany began to regain its physical, social and economic structure after the First World War. Yet, despite such pros, there emerged a reputation for decadence, for example prostitution and homosexual behavior. Berlin led a sophisticated culture in film, literature, painting, architecture and science.

The Golden Twenties was known to be a period of vibrancy for Berlin which had then became the third largest municipality in the world.

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