Word: kulturbolschewist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill." He had a brief wartime success with a ballet, Joan of Zarissa, which was produced in occupied Paris. After the war, Egk went through the denazification wringer and was finally cleared...