Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state‑subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Eardrums contributes to contemporary discussions surrounding the historicity of listening and acoustical knowledge by examining a pivotal moment in the evolution of the ear and listening in German modernist literature and cultural production.
I recall the long solo journeys when I would think about my father: the Oberfeldarzt (Retired), the Reichsamtsleiter in the SS, the adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, the author of New Foundations...
This memoir is a moving testament to the power of family. The Lucas clan was a close-knit, successful family of rural German Jews—butchers and meat dealers—whose strength and pride was challenged by the rise of Nazism. As the family grew, so did its prosperity and power, and the sons, daughter, and their relatives became known as the Sovereigns.
Ingeborg Hecht's father, a prosperous Jewish attorney, was divorced from his titled German wife in 1933—two years before the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws—and so was deprived of what these laws termed "privileged mixed matrimony." He died in Auschwitz. His two children, called "half-Jews," were stripped of their rights, prevented from earning a living, and forbidden to marry. In Invisible Walls, Hecht writes of what it was like to live under these circumstances.
