Author: Ronald Hayman
Publisher: London : Wolff; New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN: UVA:X000285948
Category: German drama
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The 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
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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
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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.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
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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.The German Theatre Volume 2
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Author: August Wilhelm Iffland
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 1357439199
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Page: 330
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.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
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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.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
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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
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Author: August Wilhelm Iffland
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 1377782352
Category: Drama
Page: 318
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre
Another corollary and limitation of such public investment is the role and power of
local politicians . Theatre may be more divorced from the market in Germany , but
it is tied more tightly to the main parties and their representatives . However , a ...
Author: David Barnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521855144
Category: Drama
Page: 300
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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
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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.Shylock in Germany
Using archival research and drawing on much primary source material, Bonnell does not confine the book to theatre history only - but instead uses the changing portrayal of Shylock to analyse German cultural attitudes towards Jews over time.
Author: Andrew G. Bonnell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1350172456
Category: History
Page: 264
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How did the catastrophic development of antisemitism in Germany interact with the portrayal of Shylock on the German stage? Here Andrew Bonnell gives us the first cultural history of this tragic character from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" as performed on the German stage from the late eighteenth century to the end of World War II. In addition to analysing the performances of the most famous German actors in the role from 1777 to 1944, "Shylock in Germany" looks at the rising and falling popularity of "The Merchant of Venice" across Germany in this period, and the extent to which the role's history reflects changes in the situation of Jews in Germany and Austria.It follows the evolution of Shylock in nineteenth century and Imperial Germany, from the formative years of the modern German theatre as a cultural (and civic) institution; through the Weimar Republic, an epoch remembered for innovation and experiment, but also a period marked by an estrangement between an aggressively modernist metropolitan culture and a provincial cultural life which clung more to continuity; and, finally, considers the impact of the Nazi period with its murderous state-ordained antisemitism. Shylock's career in Germany after 1933 was neither as conspicuous nor as unambiguous as one might expect. Using archival research and drawing on much primary source material, Bonnell does not confine the book to theatre history only - but instead uses the changing portrayal of Shylock to analyse German cultural attitudes towards Jews over time.Postwar German Theatre
The German theatre tr by B Thompson
Quick let me break these bonds, and burst from my confinement ! My soul is free,
and does not own the power of chains. Alas ! I am restrained by Hope, that
daughter of the jailor, who plays the wanton with every prisoner. The dagger
drops ...
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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
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Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre
12 Thus the story of modern German theatre and its Jewish initiators, participants,
and viewers is “Berlinocentric.” The arrangement of the essays in this volume is
meant to allow a fluid reading of the book as awhole. Chapters 2 through 5 ...
Author: Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587299346
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 320
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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.The Theatre
Knowing that his parents The German Theatre , as a means of eduwould not
approve of this step , he imparted cation and cultivation of the taste for the his
plans to Kaiser himself who kindly infine arts is acknowledged to be in advance
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Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.German Expressionist Theatre
This book considers the multifarious styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921.
Author: David F. Kuhns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521583403
Category: Drama
Page: 311
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This book considers the multifarious styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921.The Early German Theatre in New York 1840 1872
given on New York's German stage, and finally American plays of the type of Rip
Van Winkle and Uncle Tom's Cabin, as already noted. On the other hand, not a
few dramas seen on the American stage in this city were direct translations or ...
Author: Frederick Adolph Herman Leuchs
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:B3571162
Category: Actors
Page: 298
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Anglo German Theatrical Exchange
The analysis suggests that Stephens' work has not only restored the writer's
position on the German stage, but that German directors have also helped to
develop Stephens' dramatic approach. The German theatre has a long
established ...
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Publisher: Hotei Publishing
ISBN: 9789004292307
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 432
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This volume makes a seminal contribution to an field at the intersection of literary and cultural criticism, comparative literature, and theatre as well as translation studies. From a broad variety of perspectives the exchange between drama and theatre of the Anglophone and the Germanophone worlds and their mutual influence are explored.