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Germany

Germany. Her Arts. Performing Arts.

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Germany

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  1. Germany Her Arts

  2. Performing Arts The most common theater structure in Germany is the “three category house”: This offers a broad spectrum of performing arts, including drama, opera, musical theater and dance. Over the course of a season, these theaters put on 20 to 30 plays, of which about ten are new productions, the rest repertory. In total, some 5,300 productions are performed each season.

  3. Performing Arts Cont’d The most frequently performed plays include Faust I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Threepenny Oper by Bertolt Brecht, as well as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. The most popular operas are The Magic Flue and The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La Traviaa by Guiseppe Verdi and Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck. Classical ballets such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake by Peter Tchaikovsky and Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev are most frequently performed.

  4. Performing Arts Cont’d Sixty festivals – most famously, the Bayreuther Festspiele, a tradition-steeped venue for interpretations of the operas of Richard Wagner, or the Theater Meeting in Berlin, where awards are presented for the best plays of the year – are held throughout the year in Germany. Each year, around 120,000 theater performances and concerts attract roughly 35 million patrons.

  5. Visual Arts Since 1945, generations of young artists have claimed their importance in the German cultural landscape. With radical forms of painting and sculpture as well as with new philosophies and political art they have been absorbing new developments in society and challenging the public.

  6. Visual Arts Cont’d Click the artist to view his piece • Wassily Kandinsky • Oskar Kokoschka • Max Beckmann • Emil Nolde • Joseph Beuys • Gerhard Richter • Alexander Nelson

  7. Literature The most important German authors of the last 50 years are most probably Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Peter Weiss. This latter group of post-war authors, many of them members of the influential "Group 47" school, shaped perception and society after 1945. They also paved the way for the political writers of the 1968 student movement and their realist documentary writing style.

  8. Literature Cont’d In recent years, Germany's post-war authors have given way to the so-called “generation of 1978 and 1989.” These younger authors are no longer consumed by great political debates, and instead, tend to take a cool, self-assured look at today's world or create cynical cults of youth. Moreover, this new generation of authors favors a blend of personal and intellectual themes to create a crossover genre that breaks with the traditional distinctions between “serious” and popular literature – a difference that has long been prized and sustained by many German intellectuals.

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