Hitler's Dancers

German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-57181-300-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 728 g

The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later. The book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina writes her very vivid personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marion Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the totalitarian state, and a documentary appendix provides a glimpse into the twisted reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats and artistic ambition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karina, Lilian

Kant, Marion

Steinberg, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Geschichte des Tanzes
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator's Foreword

Jonathan Steinberg

Preface

Marion Kant

PART I RECOLLECTIONS

Lilian Karina

Introduction

How this work came about

Have artists an interest in political and social circumstances?

The Faces of my Past

Chapter 1. A Historical Overview of the Labanist Period

Pre Labanism: The Rise of the Culture of the Body (1900-1920)

The Era of Labanism at its Peak: the Development of "New Dance," Modern and Stage Dance (1920s-1937)

Opposition to Labanism – Realistic Dance Theater

Chapter 2. Art and Culture under National Socialism

The New Legislation

The Doctrines of Race and Inheritance

The Invention of the Jewish Race: from Wagner to Rosenberg

Chapter 3. Sectarianism and Dance

The Historical Path of Racial Hygiene

Sects, Cults and Secret Societies

The New Magicians of Dance: Steiner, Klamt, Duncan, Laban

The Search for a Dance "True to Type" ["arteigen"]

Chapter 4. The Fates of Emigrants

Evgenia Eduardova and Josef Lewitan

Victor Gsovsky

Kurt Jooss

Sascha Leontieff

Aurél von Milloss

Lia Schubert

Chapter 5. The Situation in Scandinavia

The Association of Swedish Dance Pedagogues

Gertrude Engelhardt

Elsa Lindenberg

Edgar Frank

Lilian Karina

Chapter 6. Laban's Downfall and Post-Labansim

Post-Labanism

PART II: "DANCE IS A RACE QUESTION." THE DANCE POLITICS OF THE REICH MINISTRY OF POPULAR ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPAGANDA

Marion Kant

Introduction

The State of Dance Research

Dance in Germany in 1930

Chapter 7. The Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda

The Foundation of the Reich Chamber of Culture

Rivalries about Culture and Art

The Propaganda Ministry and the Reich Theater Chamber

Chapter 8. The Nazi Redirection of Dance

The Plan for a Nazi Dance Policy

Chapter 9. Ministerial Dance Politicos – Rudolf von Laban and Otto von Keudell

The Dance Festivals of 1934 and 1935

Chapter 10. The German Dance Theater and The German Master Workshops

Regulations for the Conduct of the Dance Examinations

The Olympic Games

The Temporary Finale

Chapter 11. The Next Stage

The Laban Case

The Wigman Case

Chapter 12. After Laban's Fall

From German Dance to German Ballet

A Ban on Dance

Total Dance

Post Script

PART III: THE NAZI ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS JAZZ AND SWING: A CASE STUDY

Marion Kant

PART IV: DANCE UNDER THE NAZIS: DOCUMENTARY APPENDIX

Selected and Edited by Marion Kant

Appendix: The Administrative Structure of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Reich Culture Chambers

Chronology

References

Abbreviations and Glossary

Sources

Archives and Collections

Bibliography

Index

Name entries

Subject entries

Über Autor(innen)

Karina, Lilian
Lilian Karina, born in Russia, studied ballet with Eduardova and Gsovsky in Berlin in the 1920s and danced with Sascha Leontieff, Aurél von Milloss and many others. She fled from Germany to Hungary and later Sweden, where she opened a ballet studio and lived in Stockholm.

Steinberg, Jonathan
Jonathan Steinberg is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania.

Kant, Marion
Marion Kant was raised in East Berlin and began dancing at the Comic Opera at the age of 14. She took her PhD at Humboldt University in musicology and dance history and has taught at the Free University of Berlin, Kings College London, Cambridge University, the University of Surrey and now at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lilian Karina, born in Russia, studied ballet with Eduardova and Gsovsky in Berlin in the 1920s and danced with Sascha Leontieff, Aurél von Milloss and many others. She fled from Germany to Hungary and later Sweden, where she opened a ballet studio and lived in Stockholm.