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When the war ended, the Russians, bent on a big Kultur offensive, took over what was left of the grand old State Opera company. They paid its casts handsomely and footed the bills for the best in costumes and scenery. Since performers and listeners had no trouble crossing sectors, the State Opera quickly restored its name as Berlin's first company. Now the Russians are even rebuilding the Unter den Linden theater, and providing it with a stage fully equipped for all the massive magnificence that Germans love...
...novel: a befuddled aristocrat; a Prussian millionaire with a vast amount of useless erudition; a general who insists that the Collateral Campaign must recognize the military glories of the Empire ; and the female inspiration behind the whole campaign, a statuesque middle-class beauty given to high-minded speeches about Kultur. As might be expected the meetings of the committee end merely with decisions to set up still more committees...
Filmed mostly in Rome and Florence in 1938-40 by Swiss Producer Curt Oertel, the original version of The Titan was snapped up by German companies and palmed off as a product of Nazi Kultur. After the U.S. Army discovered the film in France, a copy found its way to Manhattan and caught the paternal eye of Robert J. Flaherty, whose classic Nanook of the North (1922) made him the granddaddy of documentary movies. Flaherty set out to get the picture's U.S. rights...
...fictitious German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, who was born in 1885 and died insane in 1940. The biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind v. regimented thought, the relationship of disease to creative activity...
...Neurotic Kultur. So far as his biographer-friend knows, Adrian had but one sexual experience with a woman, a prostitute; but it leaves him with a disease that alternately retards and heightens his work and leaves him a senile wreck at the end. Perhaps the best and most readable section of Faustus describes Adrian's years in a rustic Bavarian retreat near Munich. Mann's description of Munich's cultural and pseudo-intellectual crowd between wars, and their stiff-necked, neurotic Kultur helps explain how an Austrian fanatic got them to eat out of his hand...