Theatre under the Nazis
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
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, New York, 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780719059124, 9780719059919, 0719059127, 0719059917
46631657
Introduction – John London1. The birth of Nazi drama? Thing plays – William Niven2. The history plays of the Third Reich – Glen Gadberry3. Opera in the Nazi period – Erik Levi4. Jewish theatre: repertory and censorship in the Jüdischer Kulturbund, Berlin – Rebeca Rovit5. Non-German drama in the Third Reich – John London6. Nazi performances in the occupied territories: the German Theatre in Lille – William Abbey and Katharina HavekampSelect bibliographyIndex -- .