First Responder Artists 1945?1948: Theatre ? From Rubble to Renewal

When the Red Army and Allied forces entered Berlin in 1945, the war had destroyed the city?s infrastructure, disrupting all ?familiar points of reference?of community, of social and cultural network? for Germans caught in the transition. Rebecca Rovit examines the effects of war and military occupation on an emergent theatre repertoire.

Lecture from Rebecca Rovit, Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas and Fulbright/IFK_Senior Fellow. Her research expertise explores the cultural heritage of the Holocaust within Nazi Germany, and in ghetto and camp settings. She is Editor of the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.