Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Collection of theater programs from the former GDR. Includes important performances of the time, including plays of classical repertoire (Schiller, Goethe, Lessing, Goldoni) as well as modern (Brecht, Gorki, Bredel). Each program includes the cast, extensive descriptions, and quotations from the classics of Marxist ideology intended to educate the spectator.
- Extent:
- 2 linear ft. (186 items)
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection of theater programs from the former GDR. Includes important performances of the time, including plays of classical repertoire (Schiller, Goethe, Lessing, Goldoni) as well as modern (Brecht, Gorki, Bredel). Each program includes the cast, extensive descriptions, and quotations from the classics of Marxist ideology intended to educate the spectator.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased, 1992.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Philosophy, Marxist.
Theater--East Germany. - Names:
- Berliner Ensemble (Berlin)
Deutsches Nationaltheater (Weimar)
Deutsches Theater (Berlin)
Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin)
Metropol (Berlin)
Theater am Schiffbauerdamm (Berlin)
Theater der Freundschaft (Berlin)
Volksbèuhne (Berlin, Germany)
Volksbuhne (Rostock)
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022