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And the Shark, He Has Teeth - A Theater Producer's Notes (Hardcover)
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And the Shark, He Has Teeth - A Theater Producer's Notes (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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First English translation of the memoirs of the vaunted theater
producer Aufricht, providing an inside account of the late Weimar
theater scene in Berlin and much else of interest. This is the
first English translation of the memoirs of the great German-Jewish
theater producer Ernst Josef Aufricht (in German 1966, rpt. 1998).
The title alludes to Brecht and Weill's Threepenny Opera, the
premiere of which was produced by Aufricht at his Theater am
Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin in 1928, launching Brecht and Weill to
worldwide fame. Aufricht's book is most notable for its insider's
account of the Berlin theater scene from the great days of the late
1920s and early 30s. Its range, however, from school years and the
military to his time as an actor and then producer, the rise of the
Nazis, and finally his long years of exile in France and America,
gives the picture of a complex individual with a talent for
survival and a winningly understated sense of humor. The book will
be of interest to an academic audience, but its reflections on a
period of momentous artistic and political events will expand its
appeal to a wider group: those interested in twentieth-century
German history, music and theater history, as well as the general
reader. A selection of photographs, some rare and many showing
Aufricht's famous productions, enhances this English edition.
Benjamin Bloch is a clinical psychologist who studied German and
English Literature at Oberlin College. Marc Silberman is Emeritus
Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin.
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