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OFFICIAL NAZI PROGRAMS FOR LIVE THIRD REICH PERFORMANCES OF PLAYS, OPERAS, CONCERTS, OPERETTAS, ETC.   ---  PAGE 2 (of 3)

As knowledgeable collectors know ALL of the performing arts in Nazi Germany were allowed only within the parameters established by the Reichskulturkammer (RKK or Reichs Chamber of Culture). Directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (State Minister for National Community Clarification and Publicity), performances done live, filmed or recorded, were required to utilize talent and staff that were card-carrying members of the RKK. Unless one possessed RKK membership, working anywhere in the arts in the Grossdeutschland of Adolf Hitler was impossible.

The rare performing arts programs offered on this and connected USMBOOKS webpages are each original to the Third Reich and were part of a recently discovered cache of such documents. All were used by spectators at live performances in Nazi Germany during the Third Reich so some are folded, and they vary from excellent to fair condition. ALL ARE COMPLETE.

Those program published before the war and for performances at the most prestigious venues are the most elegant and comprehensive. They may feature a Nazi celebrity, or the work of a well-known composer, conductor, or theater company. Some have retrospectives of performed works and some contain advertising in addition to casts of characters, credits, a synopsis, etc. Many have photos while some do not.

War-time programs are rarer that pre-war programs but tend to be printed on lower quality paper and contain instruction on how to locate a bomb shelter in the event of an enemy aerial bombardment. The very best have paid advertising for products like SS Allach porcelain, jewelry, fur coats, Rosenthal Porzellan, big name bars, nightclubs and restaurants, hotels, Generalfeldmarschall cigars, and Mercedes-Benz automobiles. Nazi performing arts programs of this rare class feature the best known performers in Grossdeutschland, and in some cases in the world. In addition to the fascinating history they contain, these programs provide a safe, inexpensive, logical and striking field of collecting for those who tire of the endless fakes, phonies and phantoms that plague other areas of Third Reich collectibles.

HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED 1938 AND 1941 NUREMBERG
MUSIC & THEATER PUBLICATIONS

Nazi eagle and swastika
This lot of two Third Reich Nürnberg Musik und Theater booklets are for
sale for $95.00 delivered by Media Mail in the continental USA.
 
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Musik und Theater, Stadt der Reichsparteitage Nuernberg

Offered on this USMBOOKS web page are two rare Blätter or booklets published by the Cultural Department of Nürnberg, covering Musik und Theater, the music and theater scene in the City of Nazi Party Days in March 1938 and June/July 1941.

antisemitische Wochenzeitschrift Der Stuermer, Julius Streicher
Gotterdaemmerung, Richard Wagner
The 6-¼ x 9 inch example with the silver colored cover is Number 7 for March 1938. Inside the front cover is an ad for Der Stürmer (shown left) which called itself the "most feared and largest anti-Semitic weekly newspaper in the world".
1938 Mercedes Benz advertising
The 24 pages contain articles such as "German Thoughts about the Current State and Future of Germanic Theater" written by playwright Professsor Dr. Otto Erler, as well as upcoming and current cultural performances in Nürnberg in March 1938. There are photos of scenes from Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, Götz von Berlichingen, der Graf von Luxemburg, Maria Magdalene, and from the Leo Lenz comedy Heimliche Brautfahrt.
Nazi era advertising
The example of Musik und Theater with the tan and brown cover and the addition of Stadt der Reichsparteitage at the bottom of the front cover, is for June - July 1941. It has 20 pages and an illustrated article about Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (The Taming of the Shrew), a German-language comic opera in four acts by German composer Hermann Goetz. It also has an article about the challenges faced by Nuremberg opera and theater productions during the second war year. The last page has the June/July schedule for the Nürnberg opera house and several theaters.
Responsible for the content of this 80+ year old issue of Musik und Theater was actor, director and Theaterleiter Willi Hanke. In 1939, Gauleiter Julius Streicher had named him director of the Nürnberg Opera and when this booklet came out in the summer of 1941, he was also the director of the Nürnberg City Theater. Note that several people involved in the production of this theater booklet were serving in the military (see photo above).
Both Third Reich issues of Musik und Theater have fine illustrated period advertising from cafés and restaurants in Nuremberg, hotels, banks, furniture, lingerie, clothing, shoes and hat stores, as well as local newspapers. Both are 100% original, complete and in nice used condition. No odor.

NAZI PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS, BERLIN, WIEN, NUREMBERG, ETC.

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