Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Rassegna Mensile di Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
68,1 (2002) 251-270
Keywords:
Sobol, Yehoshua.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the theater
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Jewish theater
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Discusses the difficulties of portraying the Jew on the stage without using antisemitic stereotypes while pursuing the audience's identification with the Jewish people. Analyzes differences in attitude towards concepts of Jewish identity in West and East Germany with respect to the mise en scène of Yehoshua Sobol's play "Ghetto", a story set in the Vilna ghetto during the Second World War. In Sobol's representation of the piece at Essen, the characters were complex individuals forced to face a number of situations in which the common stereotype of "the Jew in the Holocaust" is undermined. In contrast, in Charles Risse's East Berlin representation, the director's intention was to simplify as much as possible the portrayal of the characters, while avoiding stereotypical absoluteness. The result was a persistent "otherness" of the Jews, a subliminal re-confirmation of stereotypes despite the director's and actors' efforts at neutrality. Analyzes, also, the issue of representation of Jewish life during the Holocaust.
Note:
A shorter English version appeared in "Identität und Gedächtnis in der jüdischen Literatur nach 1945" (2003)
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