Art and artifice

the limits of creativity and identity in operas from Theresienstadt

swisscovery network catalog record

Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-128) and abstract; Memorials and memory: an introduction -- Negotiating identities in interwar Prague. Forging a new Czechoslovak Republic ; Alexander Zemlinsky and Erwin Schulhoff ; Pavel Haas ; The young and the progressive ; Viktor Ullmann ; She picked the apple, he broke the jug ; Hans Krasa ; The seekers of lice -- "And all the men and women merely players": Theresienstadt, the model camp. Culture Cafe, an aperitif ; The model camp, a synopsis ; Behind the scenes ; Identities revisited ; Collaboration and resistance ; Before the curtain falls -- Death Takes a Holiday: Ullman's Zeitoper. Prelude to chaos ; Finding humor and the grotesque in the Emperor's "assistants" ; When love is stronger than death: The maiden and the soldier ; Death sings a hit! ; Harlequin, no old fool ; Playing god ; Restitution: Death comes back to life -- Child's play: performance and the reception history of Hans Krasa's Brundibar. Rough beginnings ; From Prague to Theresienstadt ; Little people and animals can sing too ; A different kind of education ; Post-war efforts at memorialization -- When the pen was not mightier than the sword; swisscovery holding institutions: 41SLSP_UBS; Thesis committee: Brian Locke, Alvin Goldfarb, and Richard Hughey; vii, 128 Seiten