Theatre under the Nazis by John London (Editor)

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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 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. Based on contemporary press reports, research in German archives, and interviews with surviving playwrights, actors, and musicians, it is a much needed guide to this neglected area of European culture.

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Offering insights into the cultural policy of a totalitarian state and governmental temptation to try to control what goes on in the arts...

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Mostly from Britain and the US, scholars of drama or of German literature cover the birth of Nazi drama, the history plays of the Third Reich, opera, repertory and censorship in the J<:u>discher Kulturbund in Berlin, non-German drama, and the German theatre in Nazi-occupied Lille. London, himself a specialist in Spanish theater, introduces the anthology by reviewing the period from reactionary and Nazi theater before 1933 to theater after 1945. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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