Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation

Informationen zum Autor Anselm Heinrich is Senior Lecturer of Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Anselm Heinrich, Heinrich Anselm
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138799523
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79952-3
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; 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