Peer Gynt | Twentieth Century Use of Peer Gynt as Nazi Propaganda
Metzger is a Ph.D., specializing in literature and drama at the University of New Mexico. In this essay, Metzger discusses the 20th+century use of Peer Gynt as Nazi propaganda.
During the period that encompassed the Third Reich, Peer Gynt was a favorite production of German theatres, who saw in Henrik Ibsen's work elements that could be manipulated to support Nazi ideology. Ibsen was not a socialist, nor would he have embraced the racism and inhumanity that marked the years of Adolf Hitler's reign. Ibsen was familiar with the need for critics and audiences to attribute a political agenda to his work. Of the claim that A Doll's House was a feminist work, Ibsen remarked that he was not a feminist, but instead, he believed in human rights and in...
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