The brother seeks his brothers. Beethoven's "Fidelio" and the freedom of Austria

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"It is the great achievement of Martin Wassermair to have identified a historical place in which continuity and rupture, complexity and simplicity in the process of formation and deformation are clearly manifested. Performances of ' Fidelio' did not only take place at such central reference points of Austrian self-discovery as in...

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"It is the great achievement of Martin Wassermair to have identified a historical place in which continuity and rupture, complexity and simplicity in the process of formation and deformation are clearly manifested.
Performances of ' Fidelio' did not only take place at such central reference points of Austrian self-discovery as in the years 1955 and 1945. Through Beethoven, the social-democratic workers' movement connected with the bourgeois nation - but at that time the German nation, and Beethoven is also recognizable as a reference point for the Austro-Fascist dictatorship , the idea of ​​freedom in this opera was also used by the Nazi regime as a festival motif, as shown by the performances in Vienna in 1938 and in occupied Slovenian Styria in 1941.
Martin Wassermair systematically searched for sources and literature, found them, interpreted them and presented them in one language mediated, beyond helpless moralizing or ironic distancing, historical phenomena from made clear, the tradition of which appears only partially broken to this day."
(Prof. dr Karl Stuhlpfarrer)

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  • Title: A brother is looking for his brothers
  • Subtitles: Beethoven's "Fidelio" and the freedom of Austria
  • Author: Martin Wassermair
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Published: 1st edition 06.12.2010
  • Subject: Political Science
  • Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
  • Product type: diploma thesis
  • Language: German
  • Binding: Softcover (paperback)
  • Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
  • Scope: 152 pages
  • Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
  • Keywords: Adorno, Theodor W., Austrofascism, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Bertold Brecht, occupying powers, occupation period, fraternity, Böhm, Karl, Fidelio, freedom, equality, Gottfried Einem, Joseph Goebbels Hermann Göhring, cultural policy in Austria, Kurt Schuschnigg , music in Auschwitz, National Socialism, Nazi propaganda, political culture in Austria, Raab, Julius, Salzburg Festival, self-discovery in Austria, Vienna State Opera, suppression, reconstruction, Vienna Opera Theatre, economic miracle, Second World War, Austria

Author

historian and political scientist; works at the World Information Institute, board member of the Austrian Cultural Council, numerous publications and lectureships in the fields of culture and media policy, history and identity policy, new media, information society and political communication; most recently published: Konrad Becker/Martin Wassermair (eds.), "Phantom Kulturstadt", Löcker 2009. Further information is available at: www.wassermair.net/

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