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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: A (1,0), The New School (Historical Studies), course: Modern Dictatorship and Political Religion, language: English, abstract: [...] Since its founding in 1876, the Bayreuth Festival had been a locus of representation for politically prominent figures; among the guests of the first Festival were the German Emperor Wilhelm I and the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II2. In the years to come, Bayreuth would keep its meaning as a “political symbol“ 3. From 1933 on, the Wagnerian Hitler used the Festival for both the representation of his person and his regime. The Foundations for this ap...
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universität Lüneburg (Institute für Sozialwissenschaften und Politikwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die staatliche Kulturfinanzierung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) steht vor einem Dilemma, welches zumal nach der Wiedervereinigung 1990 zu einer immer lauter werdenden Diskussion auf politischer Ebene über den (Un-)Sinn der staatlichen Kulturförderung von Kulturinstitutionen geführt hat. Zum einen nämlich steht ein Staat, welcher sich als Kulturnation, als Land der Dichter und Denker versteht, in der Verantwortung, seine Kultur zu schützen und zu fördern. Zum anderen aber führt die Krise s...
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Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in collaboration with the world-renowned architect Francis Kéré. This final project of Schlingensief is inspired by and illuminates the diverse themes that informed his artistic practice, includ...