League for Proletarian Culture
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The League for Proletarian Culture (
They published Aufruf zu einem Bund für proletarische Kultur (Call for a League for Proletarian Culture) which referred to Alexander Bogdanov and the Proletkult movement he had established as a mass movement in Russia. They set out to "lay the foundations for a new proletarian culture" to which end they subsequently published their Grundsätze und Programm. Here they claimed they sought to wipe out the last traces of bourgeois culture from working class consciousness, seeing the disappearance of this pseudo-culture as no loss. They envisaged a new proletarian culture dormant within the working class which could be woken up and play a role in the revolutionary transformation of society.[3]
Proletarian Theatre
Under the auspices of the
Political alignment
Whilst the KPD did little in the field of the arts, the KAPD stated in their programme: "a decisive factor in hastening the social revolution is revolutionising the proletariat's entire mental view of the world. With this in mind, the party supports all revolutionary tendencies in science and in the arts".[3]
Members
- Johannes R. Becher
- Alfons Goldschmidt
- Arthur Holitscher
- Franz Jung
- Rudolf Leonhard
- Karlheinz Martin
- Ludwig Rubiner
- Hermann Schüller
References
- ^ Sheppard (2000, 261-262) and Willett (1978a, 14).
- ^ Sheppard (2000, 261).
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7190-3634-7. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Willett (1978a, 14).
- ^ Pearlman (2000), Sheppard (2000, 261), Piscator (1980, 36), and Rorrison (1980, 37).
- ^ Sheppard (2000, 261) and Rorrison (1980, 37).
- ^ Rorrison (1980, 37) and Willett (1978a, 14).
- ^ Piscator (1980, 36).
- ^ Rorrison (1980, 37).
Sources
- Pearlman, Alan Raphael, ed. and trans. 2000. Plays One: Transformation, Masses Man, Hoppla, We're Alive!. By ISBN 1-84002-195-0.
- Piscator, Erwin. 1980. The Political Theatre. Trans. Hugh Rorrison. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-33500-3. Originally published in 1929; revised edition 1963.
- Rorrison, Hugh. 1980. Editorial notes. In Piscator (1980).
- Sheppard, Richard. 2000. Modernism-Dada-Postmodernism. Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies ser. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern UP. ISBN 0-8101-1493-3.
- Stourac, Richard, and Kathleen McCreery. 1986. Theatre as a Weapon: Workers' Theatre in the Soviet Union, Germany and Britain, 1917-1934. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-7100-9770-0.
- ISBN 0-413-37810-1.
- ---. 1978b. Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety 1917-1933. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. ISBN 0-306-80724-6.