Title: German-American Urban Culture : writers & theaters in early Milwaukee /
Authors: Merrill, Peter C., 1930-
Publisher: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Year: 2000
Subjects: American German Studies Wisconsin Biography.; German American literature Wisconsin Milwaukee History and criticism.; Theater Wisconsin Milwaukee History.; Theaters Wisconsin Milwaukee History.; Milwaukee (Wis.) Intellectual life.
Abstract: "This collection of essays presents Milwaukee's most notable German-speaking writers and their works, including Wisconsin-written plays and operettas, prose, poetry, series novels, and Feuilleton contributions. A number of essays treat the cultural context these writers worked in, especially Milwaukee's most important German-language theatres, up through the renovation of the Pabst Theater."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: German immigrant writers in Wisconsin -- The German-American theater in the nineteenth century -- German-American plays and operettas in Milwaukee -- Anton Thormählen, Milwaukee poet -- Ernst Anton Zündt and the German-American theater -- The serial novel in the German-American press of the nineteenth century -- Sunday reading: German-American authors in the Feuilleton of the two Milwaukee newspapers, 1879-1885 -- German theaters in Milwaukee -- Brushing up on Pabst -- German-American urban culture in the late nineteenth century.