Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
167 (2003) 138-147
Keywords:
Bab, Julius,
;
Jüdischer Kulturbund
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
The founders of the Kulturbund intended it not only to provide employment to Jewish artists affected by the Nazi racial laws, but also to preserve the "real" German culture as against the falsified Nazi brand. They hoped for recognition by the general public, but the authorities prevented this by restricting attendance at performances to members only, and controlling the program. Plays with an anti-Nazi tendency or "decadent" modern plays were prohibited; so were classical playwrights in whom the Nazis saw their own ideological forerunners, such as Lessing and Schiller. But the Kulturbund could and did perform plays by these same writers that were prohibited in German theaters because they featured Jewish characters. The government exploited the Kulturbund in its propaganda abroad as a showpiece of the cultural freedom it permitted the Jews.
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