Main entry:

Jelavich, Peter.

Title & Author:

Munich and theatrical modernism : politics, playwriting, and performance, 1890-1914 / Peter Jelavich.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985.

Description:

xiv, 403 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-396) and index.
1. Munich in 1890. Anticlericalism, "official" classism, and the challenge of Wagner and Ibsen -- Munich's naturalist movement: Michael Georg Conrad and the modern life society -- Naturalist theater and drama in Munich. 2. Carnivalesque modernism: sexuality and satire. Oskar Panizza and The council of love -- Frank Wedekind and Spring Awakening. 3. Analytic modernism: art and Mammon in Wedekind's drama. Earth spirit and Pandora's box: the marketing of art and eros -- The Deutsches theater: the making and unmaking of a "modern" stage -- The marquis of Keith: dramatizing the culture of commercialism. 4. Cabaretic modernism: between political aggression and aesthetic intimacy. Political harbingers of cabaret: Jugend, simplicissimus, Lex Heinze -- Exclusivist tendencies in modernism: Halbe's intimes theater and Strollberg's Schauspielhaus -- te attraction of Vaudeville -- The Elf Scharfricher -- 5. Retheatricalized modernism: the Kunstlertheater and its affinities. Georg Fuchs: the rites of mystic nationalism -- Max Reinhardt: high culture as caberet and circus -- Vassily Kandinsky: the theater of spiritual awakening. 6. Activist modernism: failes compromise, renewed assault. Valle's intimes theater: morality campaigners and commercialized cabaret -- The limits of compromise: Munich's censorship council -- The erotic catholicism of Heinrich Lautensack -- Erich Muhsam and the origins of activism. Revolution of the theater and theaters of revolution. Appendix: patrons of modernist theater.

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ISBN:

0674588355 (alk. paper)
9780674588356 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Theater Germany Munich History.
Experimental theater Germany Munich.
Theater Political aspects Germany Munich.
Popular culture Germany Munich.
Théâtre Allemagne Munich Histoire.
Théâtre Aspect politique Allemagne Munich.
Culture populaire Allemagne Munich.
Experimental theater.
Intellectual life.
Popular culture.
Theater.
Theater Political aspects.
Munich (Germany) Intellectual life.
Munich.
Germany Munich.
Germany Theatre, 1890-1914

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 175958
Call No.: ID PN2656.M7.J4; ID:98-B2172
Status: Available