Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015033692297
Category: English drama
Page:
View: 249
A History of German Theatre
The book argues that theatre is more central to the artistic life of German-speaking countries than anywhere else in the world.
Author: Simon Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521175356
Category: Drama
Page: 464
View: 212
Covering German-language theatre from the Middle Ages to the present day, this study demonstrates how and why theatre became so important in German-speaking countries. Written by leading international scholars of German theatre, chapters cover all aspects of theatrical performance, including acting, directing, play-writing, scenic design and theatre architecture. The book argues that theatre is more central to the artistic life of German-speaking countries than anywhere else in the world. Relating German-language theatre to its social and intellectual context, the History demonstrates how theatre has often been used as a political tool. It challenges the idea that German theatre was undeveloped in contrast to other European countries in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, provides a thematic survey of the crucial period of growth in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and discusses modern and contemporary German theatre by focusing in turn on the directors, playwrights, designers and theatre architecture.The German Theatre Today
The German Theatre Tr by Benjamin Thompson Esq
“My mother—To my mother,” cried you in French —then in English; and at last too
in German, because you thought I did not understand you. “Who is your mother?”
demanded I. “She lives here in the narrow street, in the white house.
Author: Benjamin Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:B3138581
Category:
Page:
View: 738
The Radical Stage
Partnership in the German Theatre
This book is a lens through which the reader may view the German theatre in the middle of the twentieth century.
Author: William Grange
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN: STANFORD:36105018275078
Category: Drama
Page: 241
View: 341
This book is a lens through which the reader may view the German theatre in the middle of the twentieth century. It offers an inside look at the upheavals and personalities shaping the German theatre from 1925 to 1961, when playwright Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) and director Heinz Hilpert (1890-1967) together created their major works. Their partnership is the book's major focus, although Brecht, Reinhardt, Kortner, and other major German theatre artists are prominent. The lens sweeps across the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and finally the Cold War period to examine in detail many events, people, and places important in German theatre history which have, to date, remained unchronicled in English.Music Theatre and Politics in Germany
The contributions in this volume bridge the conventional chronological division between 'late Romantic' and 'modern' music to thematize a wide array of i
Author: Nikolaus Bacht
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 0754655210
Category: Music
Page: 315
View: 878
Music, theatre and politics have maintained a long-standing relationship that continues to be strong. The contributions in this volume bridge the conventional chronological division between 'late Romantic' and 'modern' music to thematize a wide array of iThe German Theatre Translated by Benjamin Thompson Esq in Six Volumes Dedicated by Permission
1 PREF A C E. THE GERMAN Theatre has now reached its twentieth number ,
and the proprietors have infinite reason to be satisfied with the reception the work
has experienced : they , at the same time , fatter themselves , that nothing on their
...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: IBNF:CF005105524
Category:
Page: 277
View: 639
Historical Dictionary of German Theater
The Historical Dictionary of German Theater covers the field of theater performance in the German language, concentrating on German-speaking Europe, through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a ...
Author: William Grange
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810864894
Category: Art
Page: 488
View: 186
The Historical Dictionary of German Theater covers the field of theater performance in the German language, concentrating on German-speaking Europe, through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant playwrights, directors, producers, designers, actors, plays, theaters, cities, dramatic genres, and movements such as the Sturm und Drang, Naturalism, and Expressionism.Theatre Under the Nazis
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.
Author: John London
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719059917
Category: History
Page: 356
View: 151
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.The Revolution in German Theatre 1900 1933 Routledge Revivals
First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political ...
Author: Michael Patterson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317217923
Category: Drama
Page: 244
View: 320
First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla, Such is Life! And Brecht’s Man show the similarities and differences in political theatre. In addition, elements of stage-craft are examined — illustrated with tabulated information, an extensive chronology, and photographs and designs of productions.The German Theatre
Shakespeare on the German Stage Volume 2 The Twentieth Century
Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century.
Author: Wilhelm Hortmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521343860
Category: Drama
Page: 497
View: 247
Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century. It follows the earlier volume by Simon Williams on the reception of Shakespeare during the previous 300 years (Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914). Hortmann concentrates on the two most important and fruitful periods: the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the turbulent decades of the sixties and seventies, when the German theatre was revitalised by a stormy marriage of avant-garde art and revolutionary politics. A section by Maik Hamburger covers developments in the theatres of the German Democratic Republic. Hortmann focuses on the most representative and colourful directors and actors, describing and illustrating individual productions as examples of particular trends or movements.Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre
This is also the period when Jews acquired full legal and trade equality, which enabled their ownership and directorship of theatre and performance venues.
Author: Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587299346
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 320
View: 246
While it is common knowledge that Jews were prominent in literature, music, cinema, and science in pre-1933 Germany, the fascinating story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre is less often discussed. Yet for a brief time, during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic, Jewish artists and intellectuals moved away from a segregated Jewish theatre to work within canonic German theatre and performance venues, claiming the right to be part of the very fabric of German culture. Their involvement, especially in the theatre capital of Berlin, was of a major magnitude both numerically and in terms of power and influence. The essays in this stimulating collection etch onto the conventional view of modern German theatre the history and conflicts of its Jewish participants in the last third of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries and illuminate the influence of Jewish ethnicity in the creation of the modernist German theatre. The nontraditional forms and themes known as modernism date roughly from German unification in 1871 to the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933. This is also the period when Jews acquired full legal and trade equality, which enabled their ownership and directorship of theatre and performance venues. The extraordinary artistic innovations that Germans and Jews co-created during the relatively short period of this era of creativity reached across the old assumptions, traditions, and prejudices that had separated people as the modern arts sought to reformulate human relations from the foundations to the pinnacles of society. The essayists, writing from a variety of perspectives, carve out historical overviews of the role of theatre in the constitution of Jewish identity in Germany, the position of Jewish theatre artists in the cultural vortex of imperial Berlin, the role played by theatre in German Jewish cultural education, and the impact of Yiddish theatre on German and Austrian Jews and on German theatre. They view German Jewish theatre activity through Jewish philosophical and critical perspectives and examine two important genres within which Jewish artists were particularly prominent: the Cabaret and Expressionist theatre. Finally, they provide close-ups of the Jewish artists Alexander Granach, Shimon Finkel, Max Reinhardt, and Leopold Jessner. By probing the interplay between “Jewish” and “German” cultural and cognitive identities based in the field of theatre and performance and querying the effect of theatre on Jewish self-understanding, they add to the richness of intercultural understanding as well as to the complex history of theatre and performance in Germany.Theatre in the Third Reich the Prewar Years
This volume considers prewar theatre in Hitler's Germany, a previously neglected subject in theatre history. An extended introduction sets the theatre scene of 1933 and charts major theatre regulations.
Author: Glen W. Gadberry
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0313295166
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 187
View: 133
This volume considers prewar theatre in Hitler's Germany, a previously neglected subject in theatre history. An extended introduction sets the theatre scene of 1933 and charts major theatre regulations. The initial essay examines the "unified folk community" used to achieve power. Two chapters consider plays that achieved great success, and two cover specific theatres. The famous and privileged actor Werner Krauss is the subject of an essay on artistic responsibility, while a chapter on three famed directors shows how artists maneuvered for artistic freedom. The Propaganda Ministry's first national theatre festival in Dresden is covered. The two final chapters examine minority theatre--Jewish theatre in the anti-Semitic Third Reich and theatre in the concentration camps.The Theatre of the Weimar Republic
A rigorous, fascinating assessment of the world-wide influences of Weimar theatre during its lifetime and in later years, the book will appeal to all readers interested in the art and politics of this turbulent period.
Author: John Willett
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Pub
ISBN: UOM:49015000368481
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 350
View: 945
The most definitive, comprehensive study of the origins, development, achievements and ultimate destruction of the performing arts in Germany from World War I through the rise of Hitler, "The Theatre of the Weimar Republic" is an invaluable record of creativity born out of conflict. John Willett focuses on the intellec-tual and sociocultural factors that brought Weimar theatre to its peak and analyses the theatrical theories and movements of the era. In addition, he includes a unique section of appen-dices, spanning 1916 to 1945, supple-menting the text and providing detailed information on theatres, actors, perfor-mances, films, and radio and gramo-phone recordings. The theatre during this period was marked by bold, innovative playwright-ing and directing as well as by impor-tant advances in theatrical architecture, lighting, and stage design. Renowned talents such as Brecht, Piscator, Toller, and Weill were nurtured, and influen-tial movements and credos -- including Expressionism, agitprop, and Bauhaus theatre projects -- developed. A rigorous, fascinating assessment of the world-wide influences of Weimar theatre during its lifetime and in later years, the book will appeal to all readers interested in the art and politics of this turbulent period.German and Dutch Theatre 1600 1848
This book makes available for the first time documents relating to European history, many of which were previously unpublished.
Author: Held Professorship and Visiting Professorship in Film Studies Theatre History and Western Drama George W Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521233836
Category: Drama
Page: 550
View: 795
This book makes available for the first time documents relating to European history, many of which were previously unpublished.Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre
The focus of the series is on political approaches to the modern theatre with
attention also being paid to theatres of earlier periods and their influence on
contemporary drama . Topics in the series are chosen to investigate this
relationship and ...
Author: David Barnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521855144
Category: Drama
Page: 300
View: 490
Publisher descriptionThe German theatre tr by B Thompson
To be sure , there are Germans who pique themselves on gout , on lecture , on
belles lettres . There ' s one Monsieur Wieland , who has acquired some degree
of renommée by a few old tales , which he has translated from the mille et une ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:555004684
Category:
Page:
View: 703
German Classical Drama
F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature.
Author: F. J. Lamport
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521428289
Category: Drama
Page: 241
View: 714
This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.