Theatre in the Third Reich, the Prewar Years

GLEN W. GADBERRY is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. His research focus is the German-language theatre of the late 19th to mid 20th century. He has written many articles on the theatre and drama of the Third Reich.

• Introduction: The Year of Power--1933 The National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft Fantasy and the Drama of National Rebirth by Robert A. Pois Theatre in Detmold 1933-1939: A Case Study of Provincial Theatre During the Nazi Pre-War Era by Ron Engle Theatre of the Front: Sigmund Graff and Die endlose Strasse by William Sonnega Eberhard Wolfgang Moller: Politically Correct Playwright of the Third Reich by Rufus J. Cadigan Ordained Hands on the Altar of Art: Grundgens, Hilpert, and Fehling in Berlin by William Grange Werner Krauss and the Third Reich by William R. Elwood Nazi Berlin and the Grosses Schauspielhaus by Yvonne Shafer The First National Socialist Theatre Festival--Dresden 1934 by Glen W. Gadberry Collaboration or Survival, 1933-1938: Reassessing the Role of the Judischer Kulturbund by Rebecca Rovit The Final Chapter: Theatre in the Concentration Camps of Nazi Germany by Michael Patterson, with material by Louise Stafford-Charles Bibliography--Works Cited