Theatre in the Third Reich the Prewar Years

Theatre in the Third Reich  the Prewar Years
Author: Glen Gadberry
Publsiher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-03-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780313295164

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Annotation Includes eleven essays on prewar theatre in Hitler's Germany, including analyses of Nazi ideology, popular dramatists, an actor, directors, specific theatres, a national theatre festival, Jewish theatre, and theatre in concentration camps.

Theatre Under the Nazis

Theatre Under the Nazis
Author: John London
Publsiher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0719059917

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Were those who worked in the theatres of the Third Reich willing participants in the Nazi propaganda machine or artists independent of official ideology? To what extent did composers such as Richard Strauss and Carl Orff follow Nazi dogma? How did famous directors such as Gustaf Grüdgens and Jürgen Fehling react to the new regime? Why were Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw among the most performed dramatists of the time? And why did the Nazis sanction Jewish theatre? This is the first book in English about theater in the entire Nazi period. The book is based on contemporary press reports, research in German archives, and interviews with surviving playwrights, actors, and musicians.

Essays on Twentieth century German Drama and Theater

Essays on Twentieth century German Drama and Theater
Author: Hellmut H. Rennert
Publsiher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2004
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0820444030

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This collection of articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors' work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.

The Swastika and the Stage

The Swastika and the Stage
Author: Gerwin Strobl
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-11-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521122724

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Based on extensive archival research, this is a comprehensive study of theatre in the Third Reich. It explores the contending pressures and ambitions within the regime and the Nazi party, within the German theatre profession itself and the theatre-going public. Together, these shaped theatrical practice in the Nazi years. By tracing the origins of the Nazi stage back to the right-wing theatre reform movement of the late nineteenth century, Strobl suggests that theatre was widely regarded as a central pillar of German national identity. The role played by the stage in the evolving collective German identity after 1933 is examined through chapters on theatre and Nazi racial policy, anti-religious campaigns and the uses of history. The book traces the evolving fortunes of theatre in the Third Reich, to the years of 'total war', and the resulting physical destruction of most German playhouses.

Literature and Film in the Third Reich

Literature and Film in the Third Reich
Author: Karl-Heinz Schoeps
Publsiher: Camden House
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 157113252X

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This book is the first survey in English of literature and film in Nazi Germany. It treats not only works sympathetic to National Socialism, but also works of the so-called Inner Emigration, of the resistance, and those written in prisons and concentration camps. Much of this literature is not easily accessible in German, and not available at all in English translation. Historical and ideological context is provided in chapters covering influential works of the time such as Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century and Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Schoeps also analyzes Nazi cultural policies, fascist histories of literature, and the role of German studies and Germanists in the Nazi movement. A major section of the book is devoted to film, then a relatively new medium of communication whose propaganda value was clearly recognized by Goebbels, the minister for propaganda and president of the Reich's Chamber of Culture. One of the most interesting areas of research in recent years is the relationship between Hitler's cultural commissars, in particular Goebbels, and the literature and film production of the Nazi years. This book is based on the revised and expanded second German edition, Literatur im Dritten Reich (1933-1945), but has again been revised and expanded, especially the chapter on film and Nazi policies toward the film industry. The chapter on cultural policies has also been expanded to include Himmler's efforts to meddle in this area. New also are sections dealing with Jewish entertainers in concentration camps (for example, Kurt Gerron) and activities of the Jewish Cultural League. Karl-Heinz Schoeps is professor of German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Nazi Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich

Nazi Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
Author: Julia Timpe
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781137531933

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This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's activities in entertaining German soldiers and concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer scholarship which focuses on the integratory force of the Nazi promise of a unified 'racial community' of all 'Aryan' Germans, this book highlights that Kraft durch Freude's 'everyday production of joy' was central to Nazism, closely connected to the destructive side of the Third Reich, and ultimately a major reason for Nazism's success among the German population.

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin
Author: Rebecca Rovit
Publsiher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781609381240

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"Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of Berlin's Jewish Kulturbund Theatre. By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime. Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation, artistic integrity and adaptability, and community and identity."--BACK COVER.

The Oxford History of the Third Reich

The Oxford History of the Third Reich
Author: Earl Ray Beck Professor of History Robert Gellately,Robert Gellately
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2023-01-26
Genre: Germany
ISBN: 9780192886835

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Histories you can trust. At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Germans were at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At that moment, Hitler appeared -- however briefly -- to be the most powerful ruler on the planet. Given this dramatic turn of events, it is little wonder that since 1945 generations of historians keep trying to explain how it all happened. This rich history provides a readable and fresh approach to the complex history of the Third Reich, from the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 to the final collapse in 1945, distilling our ideas about the period and providing a balanced and accessible account of the whole era.