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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Heiss, Christine |
| Title, Analytic | Gerhart Hauptmanns "Weber" auf deutschen Buehnen der USA im neunzehnten Jahrhundert |
| Journal Title | The German Quarterly |
| Medium | Photocopy |
| Date of Publication | 1986 |
| Volume ID | 59 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 361-374 |
| Abstract | Hauptmann's 'Die Weber' was first publicly produced in the German-language theaters of America. In the following years, the play was often performed not only in 'mainstream' theaters but by radical theater groups, which quickly adopted it as a popular propaganda-piece because of its presumably 'revolutionary' message. Since the working classes attended all performances in large numbers, a discussion ensued about the play and its impact: in one case, a performance was prohibited by the police. The workers' interest in Die Weber," the timid reaction of both the German-American bourgeois press and of local authorities indicate that the drama's social realities corresponded to the working and living conditions of German-American laborers in the late nineteenth century." |
| Call Number | MKI P86-124 / MEM AP .G371 Q1 |
| MKI Terms | Theater & Drama/ United States/ Labor and laboring classes |