Chapter 8 Brecht as a Model for Cultural Development
Despite the non-governmental status of the UNESCO-affiliated International Theatre Institute (ITI), its organisational structures enabled its member states to use it as an instrument of cultural representation for national and Cold War purposes. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the East German nat...
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| description | Despite the non-governmental status of the UNESCO-affiliated International Theatre Institute (ITI), its organisational structures enabled its member states to use it as an instrument of cultural representation for national and Cold War purposes. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the East German national centre of the ITI hosted several seminars and colloquia for theatre artists from the Global South. These events focussed heavily on playwright Bertolt Brecht as a figurehead of East German theatre since his plays and theories were of great interest to the international theatre community. This chapter examines how the GDR centre used the international community of the ITI to find and contact artistically and politically suitable participants from emerging countries and how they conceptualized and adjusted their presentation of Brecht’s work and methods not only according to their participants’ needs, but also to build a specific national brand of soft power designed to appeal to artists and cultural policy makers in the non-aligned countries: the GDR and the East German artists as partners and supporters of nation building. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1016952025-05-08T13:42:26Z Chapter 8 Brecht as a Model for Cultural Development Sturm, Rebecca Cultural Cold War, decolonization, postcolonial studies, cultural diplomacy, national theatre Despite the non-governmental status of the UNESCO-affiliated International Theatre Institute (ITI), its organisational structures enabled its member states to use it as an instrument of cultural representation for national and Cold War purposes. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the East German national centre of the ITI hosted several seminars and colloquia for theatre artists from the Global South. These events focussed heavily on playwright Bertolt Brecht as a figurehead of East German theatre since his plays and theories were of great interest to the international theatre community. This chapter examines how the GDR centre used the international community of the ITI to find and contact artistically and politically suitable participants from emerging countries and how they conceptualized and adjusted their presentation of Brecht’s work and methods not only according to their participants’ needs, but also to build a specific national brand of soft power designed to appeal to artists and cultural policy makers in the non-aligned countries: the GDR and the East German artists as partners and supporters of nation building. 2023-07-19T09:47:58Z 2023-07-19T09:47:58Z 2023-07-17T08:44:25Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63974 9781032051581 9781032051611 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/101695 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63974/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-11.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63974/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-11.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63974/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-11.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003196334-11 10.4324/9781003196334-11 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9781032051581 9781032051611 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection Routledge 25 694559 open access |
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