German-speaking exiles in the performing arts in Britain after 1933 /
German-speaking exiles in the performing arts in Britain after 1933 /
edited by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove.
- 1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
- The yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, vol. 14 1388-3720 ; .
- Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 14. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .
Papers from a conference on 'German-speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain, ' held by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies in London in September 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- The Go-Between. Martin Miller’s Career in Broadcasting / Is there Life after Kurt und Willi? Bruno Adler’s anti-Soviet Radio Series Zwei Genossen / ‘England but not mine.’ Großbritannien im journalistischen Schaffen von Edmund Wolf / Gerhard Hinze or Gerard Heinz? A Life in two Acts / Litz Pisk, Dance and Theatre / ‘Möglichst nah am Original.’ Erich Fried, Poet, Translator and would-be Performer / Margarete Berger Hamerschlag and the Theatre. Vienna, Rome, London / Vom Englischen ins Deutsche. Peter Zadeks Weg ins deutsche Theater / Lutz Weltmann, Theatre Critic and Cultural Mediator in the AJR Information / The Choreographer Hilde Holger. Between Three Worlds / Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder. Refugees, Battle and Aftermath / ‘Just part of my Continental charm.’ Anton Walbrooks Filmkarriere im britischen Exil / A Lucky Man. Wolf Suschitzky – Photographer and Cameraman / ‘...den Menschen und den Sachen auf den Grund zu kommen.’ Zu Leben und Werk von Jens Brüning / Contributors -- Index. Charmian Brinson -- Jennifer Taylor -- Ursula Seeber and Barbara Weidle -- Richard Dove -- Marian Malet -- Manya Elrick -- Anna Nyburg -- Günther Rühle -- Anthony Grenville -- Thomas Kampe -- Clare Lidbury -- Christian Cargnelli -- Brigitte Mayr and Michael Omasta -- Wilfried Weinke --
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This volume focuses on the contribution of German-speaking refugees from Nazism to the performing arts in Britain, evaluating their role in broadcasting, theatre, film and dance from 1933 to the present. It contains essays evaluating the role of refugee artists in the BBC German Service, including the actor Martin Miller, the writer Bruno Adler and the journalist Edmund Wolf. Miller also made a career in the English theatre transcending the barrier of language, as did the actor Gerhard Hinze, whose transition to the English stage is an instructive example of adaptation to a new theatre culture. In film, language problems were mitigated by the technical possibilities of the medium, although stars like Anton Walbrook received coaching in English. Certainly, technicians from Central Europe, like the cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, helped establish the character of British film in the 1950s and 1960s. In dance theatre, language played little role, facilitating the influence in Britain of dance practitioners like Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder. Finally, evaluating the reverse influence of émigrés on Germany, two essays discuss Erich Fried’s translations of Shakespeare and Peter Zadek’s early theatre career in Germany.
In English and German.
9789401209199
10.1163/9789401209199 DOI
2013474398
1900-1999
Entertainers--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Germans--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Exiles--Great Britain.
Entertainers.
Exiles.
Germans.
Great Britain.
History.
DA125.G4 / G46 2013
941.00431
Papers from a conference on 'German-speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain, ' held by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies in London in September 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- The Go-Between. Martin Miller’s Career in Broadcasting / Is there Life after Kurt und Willi? Bruno Adler’s anti-Soviet Radio Series Zwei Genossen / ‘England but not mine.’ Großbritannien im journalistischen Schaffen von Edmund Wolf / Gerhard Hinze or Gerard Heinz? A Life in two Acts / Litz Pisk, Dance and Theatre / ‘Möglichst nah am Original.’ Erich Fried, Poet, Translator and would-be Performer / Margarete Berger Hamerschlag and the Theatre. Vienna, Rome, London / Vom Englischen ins Deutsche. Peter Zadeks Weg ins deutsche Theater / Lutz Weltmann, Theatre Critic and Cultural Mediator in the AJR Information / The Choreographer Hilde Holger. Between Three Worlds / Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder. Refugees, Battle and Aftermath / ‘Just part of my Continental charm.’ Anton Walbrooks Filmkarriere im britischen Exil / A Lucky Man. Wolf Suschitzky – Photographer and Cameraman / ‘...den Menschen und den Sachen auf den Grund zu kommen.’ Zu Leben und Werk von Jens Brüning / Contributors -- Index. Charmian Brinson -- Jennifer Taylor -- Ursula Seeber and Barbara Weidle -- Richard Dove -- Marian Malet -- Manya Elrick -- Anna Nyburg -- Günther Rühle -- Anthony Grenville -- Thomas Kampe -- Clare Lidbury -- Christian Cargnelli -- Brigitte Mayr and Michael Omasta -- Wilfried Weinke --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
This volume focuses on the contribution of German-speaking refugees from Nazism to the performing arts in Britain, evaluating their role in broadcasting, theatre, film and dance from 1933 to the present. It contains essays evaluating the role of refugee artists in the BBC German Service, including the actor Martin Miller, the writer Bruno Adler and the journalist Edmund Wolf. Miller also made a career in the English theatre transcending the barrier of language, as did the actor Gerhard Hinze, whose transition to the English stage is an instructive example of adaptation to a new theatre culture. In film, language problems were mitigated by the technical possibilities of the medium, although stars like Anton Walbrook received coaching in English. Certainly, technicians from Central Europe, like the cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, helped establish the character of British film in the 1950s and 1960s. In dance theatre, language played little role, facilitating the influence in Britain of dance practitioners like Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder. Finally, evaluating the reverse influence of émigrés on Germany, two essays discuss Erich Fried’s translations of Shakespeare and Peter Zadek’s early theatre career in Germany.
In English and German.
9789401209199
10.1163/9789401209199 DOI
2013474398
1900-1999
Entertainers--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Germans--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Exiles--Great Britain.
Entertainers.
Exiles.
Germans.
Great Britain.
History.
DA125.G4 / G46 2013
941.00431