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Munich and Theatrical Modernism(Updated)
Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914
by Peter Jelavich
Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 1996 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-58836-3, ISBN: 0-674-58836-3

" 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. "






Berlin Cabaret(Reprint)
(Studies in Cultural History)
by Peter Jelavich
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1996 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06762-2, ISBN: 0-674-06762-2

" Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, ..."

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