Week 1: Degeneracy

• The Exhibitions: Munich (1937 - art) and Dusseldorf (1938 - music)
• Nazi politicization of art
• Hitler’s artistic agenda
• Zemlinsky’s early career

Week 2: The Hunchbacked Mannequin

• Zemlinsky: Mature works
• Schoenberg and Expressionism

Week 3: From Expressionism to Objectivism

• Hindemith: From radical to conservative
• Expressionist opera: Cardillac
• Expressionistic film: The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
• Mathis der Maler and the crisis of artistic conscience

Week 4: Oversaturation

•  Korngold and Schreker
• The paradox of Alban Berg

Week 5: Mahagonny

• Iconic films: Blue Angel and M
• Krenek and Weill
• The jazz and cabaret influence

Week 6: Driven into Paradise

• Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Weill, Korngold, Eisler, Krenek, Toch, Zemlinksy, Hindemith
•  The disparate fate of the American exiles

Week 7: Accommodation

• Complicity and Compromise
• Furtwangler, Knappertsbusch, Karajan
• Orff, Strauss and Pfitzner
• Internal exile: Hartmann and Blacher
• Fritz Lang’s film Die Nibelungen

Week 8: Murder

• Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krasa, Gideon Klein, Erwin Schulhof
• Musical life in Theriesenstadt