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- 1998-1999 (Creation)
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Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 into a cultured and assimilated middle class Jewish family, and died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 26. 'Life or Theatre?' is the name she gave to a sequence of nearly 800 gouaches she produced between 1940 and 1942. Subtitled 'a play with music', it combines images, texts and musical references to recreate a life scarred both by family tragedy and Nazi persecution, yet interspersed with moments of intense happiness and love.
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GB 1556 WL 1334 1998-1999 Collection level 1 file Unknown
Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 into a cultured and assimilated middle class Jewish family, and died in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 26. 'Life or Theatre?' is the name she gave to a sequence of nearly 800 gouaches she produced between 1940 and 1942. Subtitled 'a play with music', it combines images, texts and musical references to recreate a life scarred both by family tragedy and Nazi persecution, yet interspersed with moments of intense happiness and love.
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Leaflets, fliers and ephemera documenting an exhibition of the works of Charlotte Salomon, 1998-1999.
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
February 2008 Antisemitism Concentration camps Europe Exhibitions Genocide Germany Holocaust Humanitarian law Jews Nazism Political doctrines Racial discrimination Religious groups Salomon , Charlotte , 1917-1943 , German-Jewish artist Theatre management Theatrical performances Third Reich Totalitarianism War crimes Western Europe
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Leaflets, fliers and ephemera documenting an exhibition of the works of Charlotte Salomon, 1998-1999.
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Open
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
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- Interethnic relations » Ethnic discrimination » Antisemitism
- Humanitarian law » War crimes » Concentration camps
- Exhibitions
- Humanitarian law » War crimes » Genocide
- Humanitarian law
- Religious groups » Jews
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism » Nazism
- Political doctrines
- Religious groups
- Theatre management
- Theatre management » Theatrical performances
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism
- Humanitarian law » War crimes
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English