 The house was demolished in the 1960s, but the one remaining wall bears a plaque commemorating her time there ("see image").On completing her dissertation, Arendt turned to her "Habilitationsschrift", initially on German Romanticism, and hence an academic teaching career.However 1929 was also the year of the Depression and the end of the golden years ("Goldene Zwanziger") of the Weimar Republic, which was to become increasingly unstable over its remaining four years.