Hitler's Dancers
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Hitler's Dancers

German Modern Dance and the Third Reich

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Hitler's Dancers

German Modern Dance and the Third Reich

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Hitler’s Dancers
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. PART I. RECOLLECTIONS
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. A Historical Overview of the Labanist Period
  8. Chapter 2. Art and Culture under National Socialism
  9. Chapter 3. Sectarianism and Dance
  10. Chapter 4. The Fates of Emigrants
  11. Chapter 5. The Situation in Scandinavia
  12. Chapter 6. Laban’s Downfall and Post-Labanism
  13. Notes
  14. PART II ā€œDANCE IS A RACE QUESTION.ā€
  15. Introduction
  16. CHAPTER 7. The Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
  17. CHAPTER 8. The Nazi Redirection of Dance
  18. CHAPTER 9. Ministerial Dance Politicos—Rudolf von Laban and Otto von Keudell
  19. CHAPTER 10. The German Dance Theater and the German Master Workshops
  20. CHAPTER 11. The Next Stage
  21. CHAPTER 12. After Laban’s Fall
  22. Postscript
  23. Notes Part II
  24. PART III. THE NAZI ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS JAZZ AND SWING
  25. Jazz, Swing and the Nazis
  26. Notes Part III
  27. PART IV. DANCE UNDER THE NAZIS
  28. Appendix
  29. Chronology
  30. Abbreviations and Glossary
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index