Munich and Theatrical Modernism

Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914

Peter Jelavich

    This is the first cultural exploration of playwriting, directing, acting, and theater architecture in fin-de-siècle Munich. Peter Jelavich examines the commercial, political, and cultural tensions that fostered modernism's artistic revolt against the classical and realistic modes of nineteenth-century drama.

Peter Jelavich is Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin.