This is not a thread about teritorial changes after a central powers victory. I would like to know how live would be.
Would english still be the dominant language? Could Babelsberg replace Hollywood? After ww1 a lot of republics had been proclaimed and women got the right to vote. How would this pod change the european societies?
Well, first of ... Again, a lot depends on what kind of victory and (esp. ?) when :
- a) early like 1915/early 1916
- b) middle like 1916/midth 1917
- c) late like later than IOTL 1918/1919
The longer the war, the more hardship experienced esp. also by the homefront, the deeper the changes to culture from pre-war to post-war. ... Evereywhere.
For the language :
English will - without a doubt - extend its role in the world of commerce and trade (against spanish and a smaller part also french) as IOTL ... though followed closer by german IOTL, as Germany with its control of middle and eastern europe as well as to quite some extend the Caucasus and the near east. In the latter regions it might well repulse the english influence - in commerce as well as language.
In general the world would be very likely - languagewise - bipolar.
It might to some extend by the lenght of the war regarding the early spread of german in the longer run (until today) ... colonies or not and if where and to what extend.
Filming industry :
The longer the war the more influence (and financing) the german goverment would take/gain in the filming industry in Germany, building it up to perhaps even extending Hollywood capacities ... at least regarding numbers of films made per time.
About the content ... well, yes the 'avantgardistic' films will be less, or rather less prominent with a mostly state-controlled - and to at least some degree censored - filming industry.
Though the artistic, avantgardistic elements/developments in film, literature, painting, architecture and all the other arts were already there before the war began (
at least in Germany, France, Russia, don't know very much about remaining european/world powers). ITTL they might only go into a more ... positive direction compared to the dystopian fantasies developed and expressed IOTL in all of these spheres.
And here again : the longer the war, the more 'dystopian' the views on the world - worldwide - might become. ITTL perhaps even more dystopian in the 'loosers' countries/cultures (
esp. GB and France ?).
Womens rights :
It might took some more time to become reality in Germany and the rest of central europe, but - esp. voting rights - were already well on their way though with less 'prominence' than in GB. In that respect GB and the rest of the 'anglosphere' were IOTL well behind central europe.
So ITTL we might see womens rights become common in the anglosphere as well as central europe during the early/midth twenties (as IOTL in the anglosphere).
In general :
IMHO there will be a heads-to head 'race' for the leading 'culture' in almost every sphere between the anglic and the germanic culture (in whatever way you might define 'culture') - victors and their 'ways of living' are ... sexy.
Popular culture is already firmly into the Anglosphere, ...
... and what are your reasons for this statement/claim?
I assume you're talking of world wide pop culture pre-war ?