Michael H Kater: 7 books

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? Composers of the Nazi Era is the final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), which...

Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made...

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and...

«Un excelente estudio sobre el intento nazi de adoctrinar a los jóvenes alemanes y una reflexión fundamental sobre los problemas de reconvertir a toda una generación a los valores de la democracia». Eric Hobsbawn Un análisis único y detallado sobre el significado y las consecuencias...

Der Jazz mit seiner Spontanität, Improvisation und Individualität wurde von den Nazis als eine Bedrohung ihrer Weltanschauung begriffen, zumal viele der Jazzkünstler Schwarze oder Juden waren.Michael H. Kater zeichnet Porträts der bekannten Jazzkünstler, Jazzfans und Impresarios, schildert ihre...

"A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried methods of social history.--Historische Zeitschrift "The author has drawn from an extraordinary range of sources, and the weight of evidence he compiles...

Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. "Coco, it's not important what you play. It's important how you play it," said Louis Armstrong to jazz and swing guitarist Coco Schumann during a break between...