A Nation of Provincials

Applegate, Celia

doi:10.1525/9780520335783

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“…32 As such, Hacker's play might register as querying the role of outdoor theatre and cultural tourism in considering the status of regional loyalties, the meaning of provincialism and the social function of tourism in fin-de-siècle Bavaria. 33 In keeping with Adam Rosenbaum's claims, Hacker seems to be speaking to and even thematizing the role of outdoor theatre and tourism as a vehicle, particularly in Bavaria around 1900, for 'reconcil[ing] civilization with its discontents, anchoring urban society in the natural environment and a common past'. 34 In 1926, the physiologist Fritz Kahn described cultural and social conditioning of the nation via environmental exposure as central to the experience and politics of Naturtheater.…”

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On the Politics of Performing Wagner Outdoors: Open-Air Opera,Gesamtkunstwerkand the Third Reich’s ‘Forest Opera’, 1933–45

Paige¹

2021

J. R. Music. Assoc.

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This article explores the politics of performing Wagner outdoors, focusing on the Waldoper in Sopot, Poland, and its operations under the Third Reich. Festival literature suggests that the Reich combined climatic deterministic logic with established open-air theatrical practice to implicate experiencing Wagnerian sounds outdoors as inculcating völkisch character in Poles, positioning the festival within the Reich’s imperial mission. However, this vision from ‘on high’ was undermined by bureaucratic disorganization and inefficiency, much like other Nazi artistic projects. The article concludes with a discussion of the post-war afterlives of the Waldoper and its attendant mythologies.

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On the Politics of Performing Wagner Outdoors: Open-Air Opera,Gesamtkunstwerkand the Third Reich’s ‘Forest Opera’, 1933–45

Paige¹

2021

J. R. Music. Assoc.

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“…64 The regime's visions of uprooting and resettling millions of Germans in the East illustrated perhaps the most patent disinterest in maintaining regional rootedness and likely informed its penchant for an abstract and generic regionalism in propaganda. 65 The German declaration of war in 1939 altered the use of regionalism in propaganda, with greater emphasis on the cultural links between German regions and their newly conquered neighbours. In regionalist publications in the Rhineland, for example, the regime emphasized the cultural links with the Netherlands, Belgium, Alsace, and Luxembourg, while holding a 'German-Flemish' cultural festival in the region.…”

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Regionalism and Its Diverse Framings in German-Speaking Europe Across the Long Twentieth Century

deWaal¹

2019

Regionalism and Modern Europe

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regions, meanwhile, became intertwined in Cold War conflict, partly informing later debates over the 'intrinsic' political meaning of regionalism.Conceptions of the relationship between region and nation proved equally flexible and diverse. In theory, the relationship of region to nation could range from separatism on one end and to nationalist affirmation on the other and anywhere in between. 2 Limited examples of both separatism and unitary nationalism could be found in Germany and Austria, though notions of regionalism as dovetailing with nation-building proved dominant. This understanding, however, differed internally from the nationalist-affirming regionalism that dominated in the first half of the twentieth century to the post-war notion of regional Heimat as de-centring, restraining, and therein serving a new German national idea. Meanwhile, in Austria, different groups at varying times framed regionalism as strengthening loyalty to the Habsburg Empire, dovetailing with pan-German visions, or cementing Austrian distinctiveness, the latter of which dominated after 1945.The history of regionalism in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other German-speaking areas were certainly not without their unique national inflections. National uniqueness could be found, among other places, in the role of German regionalism in imagining a post-war German federalism or in distancing the post-1945 Austrian national idea from a German one. At the same time many of the underlying forces of the movement across the twentieth century had a broader European provenance with parallels in other national contexts. Modernity, Popular Regionalism, and the NationIn the mid nineteenth century, the founder of German Folklore Studies, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl proclaimed that the uniqueness of German culture could be found in its regional cultural diversity that could only be discovered by wandering through its diverse landscapes. 3 By the end of the century, regionalism had emerged as a popular movement. The movement was certainly a modern phenomenon, though much diversity in regional cultural practices and dialects stemmed from century-long histories of territorial fragmentation. Looking as far back as the early medieval period, the settlement patterns of Germanic tribes or ' Stämme' were reflected in important modern German dialect borders (Figure 1), while, throughout the early modern period, the Holy Roman

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“…Viewed in this light, Heimat becomes, as Celia Applegate suggests, a 'map to wider changes in […] society', situated 'at the center of a German moral-and by extension political-discourse about place, belonging, and identity'. 11 A second way of conceptualising Heimat has emerged in the wake of the 'spatial' or 'topographical turn' in cultural studies. 12 Influenced by theoreticians such as Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey and Yi-Fu Tuan, scholars have increasingly come to regard Heimat as a dynamic and relational concept that centres on 'the process of making liveable a social space'.…”

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