Michael Roddy
By Michael Roddy
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Fast Forward Wagner Museum Takes Hard Look at Composer’s Nazi Ties
A renovated Richard Wagner Museum opening in Bayreuth this weekend to coincide with the Bavarian city’s annual Wagner opera festival puts the composer’s anti-Semitism and his family’s later ties to Adolf Hitler center stage for the first time. Revamped and doubled in size at a cost of 20 million euros ($21.92 million), the museum for…
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The Schmooze Doing the Nazis’ Dirty Work
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes has created a stir at the Cannes film festival with his wrenching “Son of Saul,” portraying the work of the Jewish “sonderkommando” laborers who were forced to do some of the Nazis’ dirty work in death camps. In a movie at times almost too intense to watch, Nemes and his cast…
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The Schmooze Holocaust Victim, Artist Charlotte Salomon’s Life Premieres as Opera
Photo: Salzburger Festspiele / Ruth Walz (Reuters) — The Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon left behind a body of watercolors and text she called “Life? or Theater?” before she was killed at Auschwitz in 1943 at age 26, carrying her unborn child. Salomon’s life, which has inspired films, plays and a musical, was turned into…
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The Schmooze Anselm Kiefer Says Jewish Collectors Boosted Career
(Reuters) — German artist Anselm Kiefer, many of whose huge canvases examine the legacy of the Third Reich, attributes much of his success to Jewish collectors in New York who latched onto his art early in his career when his fellow Germans were not all that interested. Kiefer spoke on Tuesday at London’s Royal Academy…
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