Gerwin Strobl
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerwin Strobl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Strobl |
| SIGNATURE | STROBL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Continuities: Theatre and Political Power from the Holy Roman Empire to the Third Reich
This article studies the Nazis' enthusiastic embrace of theatre in the period before and during the Second World War, and places this in a longer tradition of political power and the theatre in Germany. It argues that Hitler, Goering and Goebbels oversaw a ‘restoration’ of German theatre in the later 1930s, aiming to restore the emotional link between audience, Kultur and nation, for their own political purposes
Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress
Making Sense of Theatre in the Third Reich
In the crowded field of studies on Nazi Germany the role of theatre in the Third Reich continues to be a neglected subject. The reluctance to engage with the topic is particularly true among historians and is in striking contrast to the attention devoted in recent years to other branches of the arts. Yet theatre actually received lavish funding from the Nazi regime. Indeed at no time in the history of the German stage was the provision so opulent…
Zum Ruhme Englands’: The ‘Vorgeschichte’ of the Nazi Film Titanic
This article examines the background to the Nazi film ‘Titanic’. Commissioned by the Propaganda Ministry in 1940, at the height of war with Britain, the film was able to draw on extensive German engagement with the fate of the ‘R.M.S. Titanic’, stretching back to the original newspaper reports of April 1912. The sinking of the ‘Titanic’ had made a deeper impression in Germany than in other European countries, perhaps because a substantial number …
The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain
The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain
The Bard of Eugenics: Shakespeare and Racial Activism in the Third Reich
In April 1937, roughly midway between Hitler's appointment as Chancellor and the inception of the 'Euthanasia Programme', some of Germany's leading literary critics and beaux esprits attended an unusual exposition of nazi eugenic theory. The annual meeting of the German Shakespeare Society in Weimar provided the setting, Shakespeare's birthday the unlikely occasion. The event itself took the form of a paper with the title 'Maidens and Matrons in …
Zum Ruhme Englands’: The ‘Vorgeschichte’ of the Nazi Film Titanic
This article examines the background to the Nazi film ‘Titanic’. Commissioned by the Propaganda Ministry in 1940, at the height of war with Britain, the film was able to draw on extensive German engagement with the fate of the ‘R.M.S. Titanic’, stretching back to the original newspaper reports of April 1912. The sinking of the ‘Titanic’ had made a deeper impression in Germany than in other European countries, perhaps because a substantial number …
The Bard of Eugenics: Shakespeare and Racial Activism in the Third Reich
In April 1937, roughly midway between Hitler's appointment as Chancellor and the inception of the 'Euthanasia Programme', some of Germany's leading literary critics and beaux esprits attended an unusual exposition of nazi eugenic theory. The annual meeting of the German Shakespeare Society in Weimar provided the setting, Shakespeare's birthday the unlikely occasion. The event itself took the form of a paper with the title 'Maidens and Matrons in …
The Bard of Eugenics: Shakespeare and Racial Activism in the Third Reich
In April 1937, roughly midway between Hitler's appointment as Chancellor and the inception of the 'Euthanasia Programme', some of Germany's leading literary critics and beaux esprits attended an unusual exposition of nazi eugenic theory. The annual meeting of the German Shakespeare Society in Weimar provided the setting, Shakespeare's birthday the unlikely occasion. The event itself took the form of a paper with the title 'Maidens and Matrons in …
The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain
The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain
Zum Ruhme Englands’: The ‘Vorgeschichte’ of the Nazi Film Titanic
This article examines the background to the Nazi film ‘Titanic’. Commissioned by the Propaganda Ministry in 1940, at the height of war with Britain, the film was able to draw on extensive German engagement with the fate of the ‘R.M.S. Titanic’, stretching back to the original newspaper reports of April 1912. The sinking of the ‘Titanic’ had made a deeper impression in Germany than in other European countries, perhaps because a substantial number …
Making Sense of Theatre in the Third Reich
In the crowded field of studies on Nazi Germany the role of theatre in the Third Reich continues to be a neglected subject. The reluctance to engage with the topic is particularly true among historians and is in striking contrast to the attention devoted in recent years to other branches of the arts. Yet theatre actually received lavish funding from the Nazi regime. Indeed at no time in the history of the German stage was the provision so opulent…
Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress
Cultural Continuities: Theatre and Political Power from the Holy Roman Empire to the Third Reich
This article studies the Nazis' enthusiastic embrace of theatre in the period before and during the Second World War, and places this in a longer tradition of political power and the theatre in Germany. It argues that Hitler, Goering and Goebbels oversaw a ‘restoration’ of German theatre in the later 1930s, aiming to restore the emotional link between audience, Kultur and nation, for their own political purposes
Nazism (7 works) · German (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · European history and politics (5 works) · German History and Society (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works)