Wie Tag und Nacht - Leben in den Goldenen Zwanzigern
In the organizer's words:
24 hours in Mannheim during the Weimar Republic. The daily routine is characterized by different working and living environments. The special exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the diverse and contradictory everyday life in Mannheim between 1924 and 1929.
To mark the centenary of New Objectivity, the MARCHIVUM is taking a look at the local historical background. Its special exhibition "Like Day and Night - Life in the Golden Twenties" focuses on 24 hours in Mannheim during the Weimar Republic.
Different working and living environments shaped people's daily routines. New fields of work were now open to women, and their traditional roles were partially broken up. Rationalization and mechanization bring progress. But unemployment remains high. 8-hour working days or short-time working increase the amount of free time spent in sports clubs or allotments. Some people seek diversion in the pub around the corner. People's evening life takes place in the Bauhaus villa, in modern new-build apartments or in poor shacks. Radios suddenly brought the big world into people's living rooms, but their number was still manageable. Those with the necessary small change later plunged into the diverse, sometimes dark nightlife.
"New Woman", "New Living", "New Media", "New Music" and "New Objectivity" - much is new in the Roaring Twenties, but certainly not everything is golden and certainly not for everyone. The MARCHIVUM takes visitors on a journey through the diverse and contradictory everyday life of the city of squares between 1924 and 1929.
The exhibition at the MARCHIVUM is accompanied by a varied program of events.
It is part of a major anniversary project with which the city and many cultural institutions want to revive the pioneering 1920s in Mannheim. The entire "Mannheim celebrates!" program can be viewed here.
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