Theatre and Film, Johnny Carson School of
Date of this Version
1995
Citation
“The Blondest of the Blondes: National Socialist Paradigms for a New German Theatre.” New England Theatre Journal VI No. 2 (1995): 33-45.
Abstract
The German theatre underwent a revolution of shattering magnitude in 1933 when the National Socialists assumed power. The Nazis had an avid interest in theatre as an expression of “the peoples’ will,” even as they viewed the theatre of the Weimar Republic as a Babylon of “hyper-modern, bolshevistic, mollusk-like, and neurasthenic aesthetics.”