Description
The years between 1910 and 1933 represent a period of tumultuous change in Germany. Focusing on Max Reinhardts Groes Schauspielhaus in Berlin during the Weimar Republic offers a unique opportunity to examine the many factors that affect theatrical production outside of the realm of the aesthetic. Using neo-Marxist methodology of Raymond Williams as well as Pierre Bourdieus The Field of Cultural Production, this study investigates the impact of social, political, and economic factors on planning and building the Groes Schauspielhaus and on its theatrical productions. Previous works focus on Reinhardts use of actors, collaboration with designers, technology, etc, but this study begins by asking What were the relations between Max Reinhardts artistic direction and the business management? It provides an analysis of the economic conditions of the period, the costs involved in building and maintaining a mass theater, and questions of symbolic capital versus economic capital. An appendix provides a complete English-language translation of Max Reinhardts 1905 manifesto, originally published in Arthur Kahnes Tagebuch des Dramaturgen. With illustrations.
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