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Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
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Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich Hardcover - 2003

by Lilian Karina; Marion Kant; Jonathan Steinberg


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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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  • Title Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
  • Author Lilian Karina; Marion Kant; Jonathan Steinberg
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berghahn Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • ISBN 9781571813008 / 1571813004
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.88 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.809

About the author

Lilian Karina, born in Russia, studied ballet with Eduardova and Gsovsky in Berlin in the 1920s and danced with Sascha Leontieff, Aurl von Milloss and many others. She fled from Germany to Hungary and later Sweden, where she opened a ballet studio and lived in Stockholm.

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