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German Film, Theatre, and Television

German Film, Theatre, and Television. By: Dana Ebley Alaina Willing Rachel Smith. Theatre. Theatrical Movements. Pre-1500’s Primarily comedy Traveling Passion Plays Mythical plays. Theatrical Movements. The Reformation Period

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German Film, Theatre, and Television

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  1. German Film, Theatre, and Television By: Dana Ebley Alaina Willing Rachel Smith

  2. Theatre

  3. Theatrical Movements Pre-1500’s • Primarily comedy • Traveling Passion Plays • Mythical plays

  4. Theatrical Movements The Reformation Period • Improved schools; leading to theatre programs in schools • Religious Plays • Luther valued religious plays; such as Church Festival Plays --spread religious truths

  5. Germanic Theatrical Traditions • Lack of a cultural epicenter, or central capital city prevented unification of German Theatre for a long time • Heavily influenced by British and Dutch

  6. Christian Friedrich Hebbel Hermann Sudermann Gerhart Hauptmann Gotthold Lessing Hans Sachs Heinrich von Kleist Jakob Ayrer Julius Roderich Benedix Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schiller Prominent German Playwrights

  7. Goethe Author of: • Gotz von Berlichingen • Faust • Torquanto Tasso

  8. Schiller Author of: • The Robbers • Don Carlos • Maid of Orleans • Bride of Messima • Wilhelm Tell

  9. Theatre in the GDR • Greatly censored • Became a method for expressing aversion to GDR despite strict censorship of both foreign and GDR playwrights • Due to the ability to express concepts without stating them outright

  10. Theatre as a Moral Institution • Particularly receptive to non-traditional and contemporary theatre • Believe theatre should serve as a commentary on politics and society

  11. Television

  12. Television System • Dual system • Public and commercial systems existing side by side • Both programs participate in Eurovision’s International Exchange

  13. ARD • Association of German Broadcaster • Made up of eleven regional public broadcasting corporations • Governed by state broadcasting boards

  14. ZDF • Organized nationally on basis of an agreement concluded in 1961 • Governed by Television Council

  15. Channels • Smaller number of channels than American television • Not numbered like American television; more like radio stations

  16. “Third Program” • Television channel operated on a regional basis by ARD-member stations • Offers foreign language programs, education classes, and broadcasts aimed at specific audiences *minority groups

  17. Advertising • No commercials are permitted in the middle of a public TV program • Restricted to about twenty minutes a day • Commercials are concentrated at beginning and end of programs *between 5 pm and 8 pm

  18. American Entertainment • German-dubbed American series dominate German prime-time TV • Many stations broadcast American films • Offers game shows and talk shows modeled after American shows

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