Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual ArtsFrom 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Subdivided into separate chambers for music, theater, the visual arts, literature, film, radio, and the press, th |
Contents
Art and Culture in the Weimar Republic The Economic Institutional and Political Context | 7 |
The Weimar System of Professional Representation | 9 |
The Impact of the Depression | 14 |
The Neocorporatist Impulse | 17 |
National Socialism and the Arts in the Weimar Era | 20 |
Nazi Coordination of the Arts and the Creation of the Reich Chamber of Culture 1933 | 32 |
Nazification of the Arts | 34 |
Toward a Kulturkammer | 38 |
Prosperity Amid Hardship | 94 |
OldAge Pensions | 98 |
Germanizing the Arts | 103 |
The Purge of NonAryans | 104 |
A Jewish Chamber | 120 |
Other Victims of Paragraph 10 | 126 |
The Apparatus of Censorship 19331939 | 132 |
Mobilizing Artists for War | 147 |
Evolution of the Chamber System | 50 |
Neocorporatism and Second Coordination 19341936 | 51 |
Administrative Centralization 19351941 | 59 |
The Struggle for Control over Civil Servants | 63 |
The Struggle over Amateur Artists and Audiences | 69 |
The Varieties of Patronage 19331939 | 73 |
Work Creation | 74 |
Regulating the Arts | 79 |
Conflicts over Professionalization | 83 |
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activity Adolf Ziegler amateur Anordnung April artistic and cultural Aryan August Berlin Document Center Bühne Bühnengenossenschaft censorship cham chamber members chamber membership Chamber of Culture Chamber officials Chamber president civil servants December Degenerate Art DeMuV Deutsche deutschen economic entertainment exhibitions expelled expulsion Fachschaft February German artists German cultural German theater GLAK Goebbels Tagebücher Goebbels's Güden Hans Hinkel Hinkel Hitler Hönig ideological Ihlert January Jewish Jews Joseph Goebbels July June Kampfbund Körner Kulturkammer Landesleiter March Meldungen minister Mischlinge Munich Music Chamber musicians Musik National Socialist Nazi neocorporatist Neue Weg non-Aryan November NSDAP October orchestras organizations Paragraph percent performances Peter Raabe political professional professions programs Promi Propaganda Ministry purge Raabe racial RdbK RdRKK-1 regime regime's Reich Chamber Reichskulturkammer Richard Strauss RMfVuP Rosenberg Schlösser September 1935 Strauss Theater Chamber Third Reich tion Visual Arts Chamber Völkischer Beobachter Weimar Republic