Nazi Performing Arts Programs Berlin, Wien, Salzburg, Aachen

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

EARLY 1930s KURFÜRSTENDAMM THEATER BERLIN PROGRAM
DIE SCHÖNE HELENA
REINHARDT AND KORNGOLD

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Lot 25

STAATS-THEATER BERLIN GENDARMENMARKT
SHAKESPEARE 12 JANUARY 1940

Lot 25 is a 80+ year old Nazi souvenir program for the sold-out 12 January 1940 performance of the William Shakespeare comedy MEASURE FOR MEASURE at the Schauspielhaus at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin.

The heavily illustrated 30-page booklet contains information about this and other plays, pictures of the cast members of the Staats-Theater Berlin, and future performances. It also has wonderful period advertising, including the rare SS Allach porcelain ad shown below.

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Lot 3 is a program for a performance of the play DAME KOBOLD that took place in a smaller theater on the Schumannstrasse in Berlin. The subject of the play was 17th century Madrid. Program also contains information about other plays in Berlin as well as advertising. Ink stains on all interior pages!

DEUTSCHES THEATER BERLIN 1939/40 SEASON

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Kurfuerstendamm Theater Berlin, Max Reinhardt, Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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Der Hauptmann von Kopenick, Heinz Hilpert, Max Adalbert

La belle Hélène (The Beautiful Helen), is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach. It premiered in Paris in December 1864 and the piece parodies the story of Helen's elopement with Paris, which set off the Trojan War. The four-panel German program we offer here is for daily evening performances of the operette "die schöne Helena" at the Kurfürstendamm Theater in central Berlin. According to the Berliner Illustrierte Night Edition, the magic of die schöne Helena would make you forget all your every-day worries.

The 4-7/8 x 6-7/8 inch (125 x 175 mm) illustrated program folds open to 6-7/8 x 9-3/4 inches, and the full two-page spread in the interior shows a photo of the final act. Famous Austrian-born theater and film director, intendant and theatrical producer Max Reinhardt is shown as the director and famous composer / conductor Erich Wolfgang Korngold was in charge of music.

While this program is not dated, it has to be from before 1934, which is the year the Jewish Korngold fled Nazi Germany and moved to the USA, where he became famous and wrote the score for 16 Hollywood films. Max Reinhardt was also Jewish, and worked in both Europe and the United States in the 1930s. After the Anschluss, the reunification of his native Austria with Nazi Germany in the spring of 1938, he emigrated first to Britain, then to the United States. In Hollywood he opened the Reinhardt School of the Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. Max Reinhardt became an American citizen in 1940.

The back cover has advertising for Der Hauptmann von Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer, directed by German actor, screenwriter and film director Heinz Hilpert. Hilpert was the head of the Deutsches Theater during the Third Reich.

Somebody carefully stored this 85+ year old program as its colors are bright and it is in excellent condition. No tears, no folds, no writing, no musty odor. Very few of these could have survived the Third Reich and thus it is very rare.

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

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EARLY 1930s KURFÜRSTENDAMM THEATER BERLIN PROGRAM DIE SCHÖNE HELENA REINHARDT AND KORNGOLD