Hitler, Wagner und die nationale Sinnsuche
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 130266291
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Hitler. Macht. Oper. Propaganda und Musiktheater in Nürnberg 1920–1950. Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater
- Publisher
- Königshausen & Neumann
- ISBN
- 9783826067013
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- The article queries the wide-spread assumption in the historical literature that Hitler’s championing of Wagner was due to ideological reasons, arguing that the evidence simply does not support such a view. Instead, it suggests that Hitler’s long-standing and essentially apolitical liking of Wagner’s operas – both the music and the operatic staging – acted as a ‘passport’ for an extreme social outsider to German Bildungsbürger life, smoothing his way to power. After 1933, Hitler then consciously alluded to Wagner as ‘mood music’, inviting his audience to interpret Nazi rule as the transcending Gesamtkunstwerk which Wagnerians had been hoping for.