Intercambios culturales y científicos germano-españoles durante la República de Weimar

Authors

Walther L. Bernecker Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Keywords:

Weimar, Spain between the wars, cultural relations, JAE

Abstract

German-Spanish Cultural and Scientific Exchanges During the Weimar Republic

After the First World War, Germany intensified its foreign cultural policy with the countries that had remained neutral during the conflict, which in the first place motivated a greater cultural exchange with Spain in the interwar period. This article reviews the Spanish-German relations in the different stages between 1919 and 1933-1936, from the priority of cultural policy to recover a damaged image after the defeat, to a lively scientific exchange and the influence that the German university exerted on the Spanish in the legal and pedagogical fields. In Spain, a progressive spirit of attention to the exterior and the search for models to learn from or to exchange their own creations are observed at the same time. In this context, the activities of Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios and Residencia de Estudiantes stand out. The political changes that took place in Spain in 1931 and in Germany in 1933 gave a new direction to the orientation of the foreign cultural policy of both countries.

Received: 19-11-2019

Admitted: 08-12-2019

Author Biography

Walther L. Bernecker, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

From 1988 to 1992, Walther L. Bernecker headed the chair of modern history at the University of Bern. Since 1992 he has held the chair of international studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2002 to 2003 the special chair Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico City. His research focuses on the Spanish and Latin American history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was awarded the Cross of Merit of the "Order of Isabel la Católica" (Spain) and the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Among his publications, we mention: Guerra en España (1936-1939) (1996); España entre tradición y modernidad: política, economía, sociedad (siglos XIX y XX) (1999); Geschichte Spaniens seit dem Mittelalter (con H. Pietschmann) (4ª ed., 2005); Spanien-Handbuch. Geschichte und Gegenwart (2006); España: del consenso a la polarización. Cambios en la democracia española (2007); Memorias divididas. Guerra Civil y Franquismo en la sociedad y la política españolas (2009); Geschichte Spaniens im 20. Jahrhundert (2010)