Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation

Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation explores the part that theatre played in the Nazi war effort. Using a case-study approach, it illustrates the crucial and heavily subsidised role of theatre as a cultural extension of the military machine, key to Nazi Germany's total-war effort.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Discourses
Origins
Occupation

• Beginnings
• Subsidies
• Titles, Benefits, Salaries
• Investment in Material Conditions
• Repertoires
• Audiences
• Aesthetics
• Programme Notes
• Germanisierung
• Battling Stakeholders, Competing Influences
• Problems and Inconsistencies
• Theatre and Holocaust

Aftermath
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography

About the author

Anselm Heinrich is Senior Lecturer of Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow.

Summary

Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation explores the part that theatre played in the Nazi war effort. Using a case-study approach, it illustrates the crucial and heavily subsidised role of theatre as a cultural extension of the military machine, key to Nazi Germany’s total-war effort.

Product details

• Authors: Anselm Heinrich, Heinrich Anselm
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138799530
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79953-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, ART / European, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Performance Art, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater