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The Berlin State Theater Under the Nazi Regime
Elisabeth Schulz Hostetter
其他書名
A Study of the Administration, Key Productions, and Critical Responses from 1933-1944
出版Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
主題History / GeneralHistory / Europe / GermanyPerforming Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
ISBN07734635429780773463547
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wHyRAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This study uses semiotic methodology to explain how artists and state appointed administrators at the Berliner Staatstheater created and implemented an aesthetic that fulfilled the political needs of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933 through 1944. Three propaganda plays, two classic repertory plays, and a resistance play are analyzed to determine how stage designs, costumes, repertory, publicity, and acting choices translated or resisted Nazi cultural policy in production practice. Analysis of the changes occurring in the Berliner Staatstheater during Hitler's reign reveals specific production elements used by the Nazis to aesthetically translate their ideology for general, bourgeois distribution. Findings indicate that, while plays written as pure propaganda by avid party members like Hanns Jost dies quickly in repertory, avenues of propaganda remained open through carefully staged NSDAP productions of classic plays by playwrights such as Goethe and Schiller. Casting, character portrayals, thematic emphasis, design elements, and publicity for these productions displayed pointed references to Nazi cultural aims. The study verifies that theater became a means by which a centralize