The Volksbühne movement : a history /
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| Author / Creator: | Davies, Cecil W. (Cecil William), 1918-, author |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, c2000. |
| Description: | xv, 319 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary theatre studies v. 33 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4374331 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the series
- Acknowledgements
- List of plates
- Preface
- Prologue. Before 1890: the prehistory of the Volksbühne
- Act I. 1890-1914: From Brauhaus to Bülowplatz. Scene i. The first decade ; Scene ii. Developments outside Berlin ; Scene iii. Into the twentieth century
- First intermission. 1914-1918: War and revolution
- Act II. 1918-1933: The Volksbühne in the Weimar Republic. Scene i. Berlin ; Scene ii. Nationwide growth, 1918-1930
- Second intermission. The Nazis: 'Night over Germany'
- Act III. The Volksbühne since 1945. Scene i. In Berlin and East Germany ; Scene ii. The later history of the Volksbühne Federation
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Principal sources
- Appendices
- Index.