This is the first cultural exploration of playwriting, directing, acting, and theater architecture in fin-de-siècle Munich. Peter Jelavich examines the commercial, political, and cultural tensions that fostered modernism's artistic revolt against the classical and realistic modes of nineteenth-century drama.
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Speaks lucidly, informatively, and interestingly of an important place at an exciting time in theatrical and cultural history.
--J. L. Hibberd (Modern Language Review )
An excellent book...Jelavich's work is filled with shrewd insights... Particularly interesting are his account of Georg Fuchs's experiments in theatrical form and his concluding observations about the connections between prewar theatrical modernism, which was so often frustrated by the operation of the censorship in Munich, and Dadaism, the Expressionist theater, and the drama of Bertolt Brecht.
--Gordon A. Craig (Journal of Modern History )
[This] excellent book deals with many manifestations of theatrical modernism in the pre-war Bavarian capital, including the 'carnivalesque' works of Frank Wedekind and Oskar Panizza, the political cabaret of groups like the Elf Scharfrichter, and the efforts to fuse Catholicism and modernism in the erotic drama of Heinrich Lautensack...A thoughtful as well as a richly detailed cultural history.
--David Blackbourn (History )
[An] absorbing interdisciplinary study...Jelavich's account of those two and a half decades is filled with descriptive details and extensively researched findings...The book is fascinating reading and provides an excellent example of interdisciplinary writing.
--Johannes Maczewski (German Studies Review )
--J. L. Hibberd (Modern Language Review )
An excellent book...Jelavich's work is filled with shrewd insights... Particularly interesting are his account of Georg Fuchs's experiments in theatrical form and his concluding observations about the connections between prewar theatrical modernism, which was so often frustrated by the operation of the censorship in Munich, and Dadaism, the Expressionist theater, and the drama of Bertolt Brecht.
--Gordon A. Craig (Journal of Modern History )
[This] excellent book deals with many manifestations of theatrical modernism in the pre-war Bavarian capital, including the 'carnivalesque' works of Frank Wedekind and Oskar Panizza, the political cabaret of groups like the Elf Scharfrichter, and the efforts to fuse Catholicism and modernism in the erotic drama of Heinrich Lautensack...A thoughtful as well as a richly detailed cultural history.
--David Blackbourn (History )
[An] absorbing interdisciplinary study...Jelavich's account of those two and a half decades is filled with descriptive details and extensively researched findings...The book is fascinating reading and provides an excellent example of interdisciplinary writing.
--Johannes Maczewski (German Studies Review )
About the Author
Peter Jelavich is Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin.
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popular theatrics, gestural vitality, carnivalesque techniques, cabaret movement, modernist playwrights, modernist theater, modernist community, aesthetic paganism, political aggression, naturalist movement, police observer, naturalist drama, intimate theater, court theaters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Spring Awakening, Elf Scharfrichter, Intimes Theater, Lex Heinze, Modern Life Society, Deutsches Theater, The Council of Love, Earth Spirit, Frank Wedekind, Pandora's Box, Münchener Post, The Yellow Sound, Renewed Assault, Failed Compromise, Max Reinhardt, Central Europe, Georg Fuchs, Max Halbe, Munich Circle, Blue Rider, Die Gesellschaft, Men's League, Oskar Panizza, Erich Mühsam, Holy Family New!
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popular theatrics, gestural vitality, carnivalesque techniques, cabaret movement, modernist playwrights, modernist theater, modernist community, aesthetic paganism, political aggression, naturalist movement, police observer, naturalist drama, intimate theater, court theaters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Spring Awakening, Elf Scharfrichter, Intimes Theater, Lex Heinze, Modern Life Society, Deutsches Theater, The Council of Love, Earth Spirit, Frank Wedekind, Pandora's Box, Münchener Post, The Yellow Sound, Renewed Assault, Failed Compromise, Max Reinhardt, Central Europe, Georg Fuchs, Max Halbe, Munich Circle, Blue Rider, Die Gesellschaft, Men's League, Oskar Panizza, Erich Mühsam, Holy Family New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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