Jews and the making of modern German theatre / edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malkin, Jeanette R.

Rokem, Freddie, 1945-

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture.

Studies in theatre history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Germany--History--19th century.

Theater.

Theater--Germany--History--20th century.

Jews in the performing arts--Germany--History.

Jews in the performing arts.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 i

Contents:

Introduction: break a leg! / Jeanette R. Malkin

Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience / Steven E. Aschheim

How "Jewish" was theatre in imperial Berlin? / Peter Jelavich

- Stagestruck: Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg

Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel

German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner

Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre / Peter W. Marx

Jewish cabaret artists before 1933 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer

Transforming in public: Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage / Jeanette R. Malkin

The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin / Shelly Zer-Zion

Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival / Lisa Silverman

Theatre as festive play: Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte

The unknown Leopold Jessner: German theatre and Jewish identity / Anat Feinberg

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587299346

1587299348

OCLC:

648759729