The Austrian Cultural Forum is pleased to present this interdisciplinary evening which will focus on the Nazi propaganda machine and some of its outspoken adversaries.
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Shortly after Hitler became German chancellor in January 1933, the Austrian writer Karl Kraus began his work on a documentary essay about the Nazi regime: Third Walpurgis Night. Simon Ganahl, an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund, analyzed the media references of Kraus’ text, and discovered insights that in fact anticipate Marshall McLuhan’s famous postulate, “the medium is the message.”
The multimedia lecture will be framed by a live performance of songs by the Austrian composer Hanns Eisler, featuring the singer Theo Bleckmann. New School scholar and composer Barry Salmon has arranged the music for string quartet, which will be performed by:
Joyce Hammann, violin
Mark Feldman, violin
Lois Martin, viola
Jody Redhage, cello
Finally, a discussion on political propaganda, moderated by NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller, will conclude the evening’s program.
Theo Bleckmann sings Hanns Eisler’s “An den kleinen Radioapparat”:
