By David F. Kuhns
German Expressionist Theatre considers the powerfully stylized, antirealistic kinds of symbolic performing on the German Expressionist level from 1916 to 1921. It relates this extraordinary departure from the dominant eu appearing culture of realism to the categorical cultural crises that enveloped the German state through the process its involvement in global struggle I. The exam of parts of formerly untranslated Expressionist scripts and actor memoirs permits an extraordinary concentrate on description and research of the appearing itself.
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At this time, according to Istvan Deak, The owners of three of Germany's greatest newspaper publishing houses; the editors of the Vossische ^eitung and the Berliner Tageblatt] most book publishers; the owners and editors of the Neue Rundschau and other distinguished literary magazines; the owners of Germany's greatest art galleries were all Jews. Jews played a major part in the theatre and in the film industry as producers, directors, and actors. Many of Germany's best composers, musicians, artists, sculptors, and architects were Jews.
CHAPTER 2 The poetics of Expressionist performance: contemporary models and sources Expressionism, like any of the artistic movements of the early twentieth century, did not develop or progress in the orderly fashion of a moving army, as a term such as "avant-garde" implies. Rather, in John Willett's words, it was "more like a current in the sea. "1 So the Expressionist era must have seemed to those artists caught up in it. Nonetheless, Expressionism ultimately assumed the coherence of a movement; and it did so in painting and literature earlier and more clearly than in the theatre.
Granting Kant's point about the limitations of human understanding, the Will thus appeared cruelly indifferent to all human intentions just as it compromised them at every turn. Human life, then, could only be viewed as meaningless and absurd. Therefore, to congratulate oneself on the accomplishments of one's culture or, indeed, of civilization as a whole, argued Schopenhauer, was the equally cruel delusion underlying all human unhappiness. The way out of this trap was to recognize and accept the uniformity of the Will behind the rationally differentiated, and therefore illusory, categories which determine human motives.