Die Pleite was a German periodical founded and edited by George Grosz

George Grosz

Georg Ehrenfried Groß was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s...

, Wieland Herzfelde, and John Heartfield

John Heartfield

John Heartfield is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld...

, which ran from 1919 to 1924. The magazine was part of the Berlin Dada

Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...

 scene and was known for its ruthless critiques of the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

, in addition to its prescient awareness of the emergence of right-wing extremism throughout Europe.

External links

1. http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/Die_Pleite/index.htm

2. http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/Die_Pleite/Die_Pleite6/images/000cover.jpg