The Volksbuhne Movement

The Volksbuhne Movement
Author: Cecil Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134427654

This publication is the first comprehensive account in English of the history of the Freie Volksb^D"hne, founded in Berlin in 1890 through the interaction of Social Democracy and Theatrical Naturalism. Cecil Davies details the nationwide growth of the Volksb^D"hne Movement during the 1920s through the 1990s - including Germany's stormy history up to World War I, the problems associated with building the Volksbühne's own theatre, and the reunification of Germany. Weight is given to the contributions of major figures in the movement such as Bruno Wille, Siegfried Nestriepke, and Erwin Piscator.

The Volksbuhne Movement

The Volksbuhne Movement
Author: Cecil Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134427581

This publication is the first comprehensive account in English of the history of the Freie Volksb^D"hne, founded in Berlin in 1890 through the interaction of Social Democracy and Theatrical Naturalism. Cecil Davies details the nationwide growth of the Volksb^D"hne Movement during the 1920s through the 1990s - including Germany's stormy history up to World War I, the problems associated with building the Volksbühne's own theatre, and the reunification of Germany. Weight is given to the contributions of major figures in the movement such as Bruno Wille, Siegfried Nestriepke, and Erwin Piscator.

Ibsen on the German Stage 1876–1918

Ibsen on the German Stage 1876–1918
Author: Jens-Morten Hanssen
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3823392719

Digital humanities has opened up new avenues for Ibsen scholarship, and recent developments within the field of e-research methodologies have formed a point of departure for questioning conventional assumptions. This book explores the early reception of Ibsen on the German stage from a quantitative angle using the performance database IbsenStage as a research tool. Visualization techniques are adopted as a means to prepare data for analysis and identify the major patterns in the production history, and data interrogation methodology is used to trigger new lines of enquiry.

The People's Stage in Imperial Germany

The People's Stage in Imperial Germany
Author: Andrew Bonnell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2005-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857715607

This book examines the history of the Freie Volksbuhne (Free People's Theatre), Berlin, from 1890-1914, in the light of the cultural theory and practice of German Social Democracy in Imperial Germany. The clash between German Social Democracy - the party, intellectuals and workers - and the German Imperial State was played out in the Freie Volksbahne (Free People's Theatre) founded by intellectuals to energize working class political awareness of drama with a political and social cutting edge. It fell foul of state censorship, lost its bite, yet prospered. The book looks in detail at the various programmes guiding the Volksbuhne's work and at the reception of the plays by the largely working-class audience, to offer a detailed study of the interactions between cultural and political history in Imperial Germany.

Theatre for the People

Theatre for the People
Author: Cecil William Davies
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1977
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780719006661

The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949

The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Author: David Pike
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 722
Release: 1992
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804720939

They allow for a painstaking analysis of the political and "aesthetic" priorities of a developing Stalinist culture while raising intriguing questions about the early stages of the Cold War and the subsequent division of Germany. In particular, the gradual introduction of Zhdanovist or socialist-realist political norms and aesthetic forms into Soviet-occupied Germany closely paralleled developments in the Soviet Union during the infamous zhdanovshchina (1946-1948). Smear campaigns against "formalism," "decadence," and "cosmopolitanism," carefully tailored to local circumstances, were the natural consequence. Simultaneously, the German Communists worked behind the scenes with the Soviet occupation regime to establish the administrative apparatus for the enforcement of these standards, imported from the Soviet Union and calculated to infuse German art and literature with the proper political priorities.

The Volksbühne Movement

The Volksbühne Movement
Author: Cecil William Davies
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2000
Genre: Germany
ISBN: 9789057550904

Drama

Drama
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1921
Genre: Theater
ISBN:

Workers' Culture in Weimar Germany

Workers' Culture in Weimar Germany
Author: W. L. Guttsman
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1990-05-10
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In this book W. L. Guttsman, a prominent German social and political historian, examines the labour movement's remarkable development of leisure and educational opportunities for the working class and analyses the cultural theories and policies of the socialist and communist parties which initiated and supported it in Weimar Germany.