Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Theatre Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,3 (1988) 357-374
Keywords:
Reinhardt, Max,
;
Deutsches Theater (Berlin, Germany)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the theater
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
Between 1905-33 the Deutsches Theater was owned by the German Jewish producer Max Reinhardt. In December 1932 it was temporarily closed down when a production by a Hungarian Marxist, with a Jewish star and co-director, was disrupted by Nazi demonstrations and banned by the police. Reinhardt signed a new contract with C.L. Achaz (Duisberg) and Heinrich Neft shortly before the Nazi takeover, and left Germany in March 1933. The theater came under increasing pressure to adapt its repertoire to Nazi demands and to eradicate "Jewish influence, " at first from the Combat League for German Culture and later from the theater department of Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry. In May 1933 Neft was forced to resign. Reinhardt then officially turned over the theater to the German state. However, Achaz too was unable to satisfy Nazi demands and was replaced in May 1934 by a Goebbels appointee.
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