Das Kinder- und Jugendtheater von 1900 bis 1945

Abstract

A stage manuscript can be the starting point or, more specifically, the guiding medium for a media network. It can also be just one of the many ways of processing a certain subject matter. In comparison to film and radio, theater represents an old, long-established medium in the period in question. It saw itself threatened by both emerging entertainment sectors, but ultimately blended into productive coexistence with them. It remains unique in its stage productions, the non-conservable live experiences; consistent and intergenerational in its printing, especially in the classics, which children, parents and grandparents consumed as school reading alike. The article focuses on the connection theater has made with film and radio and shows how media associations have developed through, around and in accord with dramatic texts and productions.