Umfang:
1 online resource (322 pages)
ISBN:
9781587299346
Serie:
Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction | Break a Leg! -- 2. Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience -- 3. How "Jewish" Was Theatre in Imperial Berlin? -- 4. Stagestruck | Jewish Attitudes to the Theatre in Wilhelmine Germany -- 5. Yiddish Theatre and Its Impact on the German and Austrian Stage -- 6. German and Jewish "Theatromania" | Theodor Lessing's Theater-Seele between Goethe and Kafka -- 7. Arnold Zweig and the Critics | Reconsidering the Jewish "Contribution" to German Theatre -- 8. Jewish Cabaret Artists before 1933 -- 9. Transforming in Public | Jewish Actors on the German Expressionist Stage -- 10. The Shaping of the Ostjude | Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin -- 11. Max Reinhardt between Yiddish Theatre and the Salzburg Festival -- 12. Theatre as Festive Play | Max Reinhardt's Productions of The Merchant of Venice -- 13. The Unknown Leopold Jessner | German Theatre and Jewish Identity -- 14. Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781587298684
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781587298684
Sprache:
Englisch
