Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,2 (2014) 349-367
Schlagwort(e):
Gründgens, Gustaf,
;
Mann, Klaus,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Jewish actors
Kurzfassung:
Discusses the relationship of Gustaf Gründgens (1899-1963), one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, to the Jews, focusing on his time as director of the Prussian State Theatre in 1933-45. Argues that although he himself benefited from this important position, to which he had been appointed to by Göring, Gründgens, a highly controversial theater personality, also used it to protect actors who were "racially suspect" or married to Jews. He maneuvered to keep them on in his theatre and to protect their relatives, while at the same time being at risk himself as a homosexual. He also used his position to keep antisemitic plays out of the repertory. After the war he was arrested by the Allies, but freed due to testimonies that he had helped Jews and communists.
DOI:
10.1515/asch-2014-0026
URL:
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