The twenties in Garmisch & Partenkirchen

In the mid-1920s, the new lifestyle of the "Golden Twenties" also glittered in Garmisch and Partenkirchen. Anyone who was anyone travelled to the mountains. From Zugspitze flights to horse racing, everything is on offer here. Sophisticated hotels invite guests to tea dances, jazz concerts and masked balls. Film stars and directors such as Henny Porten and Arnold Fanck used the Alpine backdrop for their film productions and took the images around the world. As a result, alpinism and winter
winter sports boomed. Women also took part enthusiastically: self-confident, emancipated, with bobbed heads and in sports trousers. Speed is the order of the day, not only in sports and the new mobility, but also
but also in the construction of mountain railways, mountain huts and sports facilities.
This glamorous period was preceded by the early phase of the Weimar Republic with all its downsides: Shortages and poverty after the First World War, mental and physical wounds, mourning for the fallen and missing. Foreign policy problems and the agitation surrounding the Treaty of Versailles dominated the situation. Domestically, the Soviet Republic, revolutionary unrest and anti-democratic movements, inflation and Hitler's attempted putsch
and the difficult relationship with the new German Reich caused instability in the young Free State.
Finally, at the end of the 1920s, the stock market crash and the
and the global economic crisis once again plunged people into existential hardship and
and put an end to the brief but intense phase of ease and joie de vivre. The National Socialists use the depression for their propaganda. The disaster takes its course.

Last edited on 16.07.2024