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The Birth of the Director

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Games of the Dictatorships 1933-45

Looking back - theater between 1945 - 65

Business game or endgame - Brecht and Beckett

The Children of Marx and Coca Cola - The Theater of Revolt 1963-76

Heroes of Postmodernism - The Theater Between Self-reflection and Crossing the Border 1970–2001

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

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Games of the Dictatorships 1933-45

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Apr 14, 2002

Under the pressure of the totalitarian regimes of Stalinism and Fascism, theater artists in Spain, Russia and Germany increasingly came into conflict between resistance and adaptation. Numerous playwrights and directors went into exile. However, most of them stayed in their homeland and began to come to terms with the Nazis, since they were unable to speak any language other than their mother tongue. From then on, no Jewish or "left" authors were allowed to be played, only classics and apolitical entertainment were still allowed. Gustaf Gründgens, stage star of the century, became general director of the Berlin State Theater despite his connections to "leftist" artists and staged - not only on stage - a clever double play. In the meantime, the system used itself theatrical means and made the state a monumental and cruel "state theater"

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Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

TV Series

20029.0

Documentary

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Games of the Dictatorships 1933-45

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Apr 14, 2002

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