Archaeology of the Political Unconscious: Theatre and Opera in East Berlin, 1967-1977

by Jennifer Williams

This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy.

This volume investigates three case studies of how leading East Berlin stages excavated fragmentary materials from Weimar dramatist Bertolt Brecht's oeuvre and repurposed them for their post-fascist society: Uta Birnbaum's 1967...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103210595X
• ISBN13: 9781032105956
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages