Hitler's Theater: Art as Propaganda by Bruce Zortman

Author:Bruce Zortman [Zortman, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emet Publications
Published: 2014-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

The play ends when the Stranger joins the Miners in jubilation and the unified choruses repeat the opening verse. In his review of the première Mühr was highly impressed with the use of the chorus, for he felt that they “forced” the audience to take part in the action and were truly a “voice of Blood and Soil.” When the chorus, for instance, marched through the aisles on its way to the playing areas, he sensed that the audience was compelled to identify completely with what the chorus represented. Giving another example of spontaneous identification, he related that the audience “rose” when the mine exploded, and when the choruses “rushed” through the auditorium at the end of the play it caused the “audience to identify completely with the symbolic esteem of the Neurode miners in the service of their community.” After the performance, the SA band with banners and torches marched through the amphitheater and onto the adjoining field, playing dauntlessly in a driving rain.

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