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Hitler's Dancers - Lilian Karina, Marion Kant, Jonathan Steinberg

Hitler's Dancers

German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2003
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-300-8 (ISBN)
CHF 179,00 inkl. MwSt
Karina, a professional dancer who fled wartime Germany, and dance historian Kant (U. of Pennsylvania) counter revisionist histories of dance in the Nazi era. In their first-hand accounts and analysis, they emphasize dancers' collaboration with the regime and the regime's infusion of its Aryan/anti-S
The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. Modern expressive dance, however, found favour with the regime and especially with Dr Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. The way in which modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled Nazi culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later.

Lilian Karina, born in Russia, studied ballet in Berlin in the 1920s. She fled from Germany to Hungary and later Sweden, where she opened a ballet studio and still lives in Stockholm. Marion Kant was raised in East Berlin and began dancing at the Comic Opera at the age of 14. She took her PhD at Humboldt University in Musicology and Dance History and has taught at the Free University of Berlin, Kings College London, Cambridge University and the University of Surrey and is now at the University of Pennsylvania. Jonathan Steinberg is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania.

Translator's Foreword

Jonathan Steinberg



Preface

Marion Kant



PART I RECOLLECTIONS

Lilian Karina



Introduction

How this work came about

Have artists an interest in political and social circumstances?

The Faces of my Past



Chapter 1. A Historical Overview of the Labanist Period

Pre Labanism: The Rise of the Culture of the Body (1900-1920)

The Era of Labanism at its Peak: the Development of "New Dance," Modern and Stage Dance (1920s-1937)

Opposition to Labanism – Realistic Dance Theater



Chapter 2. Art and Culture under National Socialism

The New Legislation

The Doctrines of Race and Inheritance

The Invention of the Jewish Race: from Wagner to Rosenberg



Chapter 3. Sectarianism and Dance

The Historical Path of Racial Hygiene

Sects, Cults and Secret Societies

The New Magicians of Dance: Steiner, Klamt, Duncan, Laban

The Search for a Dance "True to Type" ["arteigen"]



Chapter 4. The Fates of Emigrants

Evgenia Eduardova and Josef Lewitan

Victor Gsovsky

Kurt Jooss

Sascha Leontieff

Aurél von Milloss

Lia Schubert



Chapter 5. The Situation in Scandinavia

The Association of Swedish Dance Pedagogues

Gertrude Engelhardt

Elsa Lindenberg

Edgar Frank

Lilian Karina



Chapter 6. Laban's Downfall and Post-Labansim

Post-Labanism



PART II: "DANCE IS A RACE QUESTION." THE DANCE POLITICS OF THE REICH MINISTRY OF POPULAR ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPAGANDA

Marion Kant



Introduction

The State of Dance Research

Dance in Germany in 1930



Chapter 7. The Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda

The Foundation of the Reich Chamber of Culture

Rivalries about Culture and Art

The Propaganda Ministry and the Reich Theater Chamber



Chapter 8. The Nazi Redirection of Dance

The Plan for a Nazi Dance Policy



Chapter 9. Ministerial Dance Politicos – Rudolf von Laban and Otto von Keudell

The Dance Festivals of 1934 and 1935



Chapter 10. The German Dance Theater and The German Master Workshops

Regulations for the Conduct of the Dance Examinations

The Olympic Games

The Temporary Finale



Chapter 11. The Next Stage

The Laban Case

The Wigman Case



Chapter 12. After Laban's Fall

From German Dance to German Ballet

A Ban on Dance

Total Dance

Post Script



PART III: THE NAZI ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS JAZZ AND SWING: A CASE STUDY

Marion Kant



PART IV: DANCE UNDER THE NAZIS: DOCUMENTARY APPENDIX

Selected and Edited by Marion Kant



Appendix: The Administrative Structure of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Reich Culture Chambers



Chronology

References

Abbreviations and Glossary

Sources

Archives and Collections

Bibliography

Index

Name entries

Subject entries

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.6.2003
Zusatzinfo 15 illustrations, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort Herndon
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 229 mm
Gewicht 659 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-57181-300-4 / 1571813004
ISBN-13 978-1-57181-300-8 / 9781571813008
Zustand Neuware
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