A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
Eiche und Angora
Author(s): Martin Walser
Walser presents, in three sections, what he calls a “German chronicle” in which he presents characters who had lived through the Third Reich now unsure of how to deal with post-war Germany. Some of them are Nazi sympathizers who are successful in the new Germany and in contrast there is the concentration camp survivor whose inability to adjust leads to his institutionalization.
Format: Drama
Notes:
Awarded the Gerhart Hauptmann prize.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Schiller Theatre, Berlin, Germany, 1962.
Schiller Theatre, Berlin, Germany, 1962.
Nationality of Author: German
Original Language: German
Publisher:
Frankfurt-on-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1971
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations
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