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Lord Byron
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« on: 15:11:14, 31-03-2007 »
Interesting to know Hitler always liked the operas of Wagner.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/saturday_play.shtml
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« Reply #1 on: 15:17:34, 31-03-2007 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 15:11:14, 31-03-2007
Interesting to know Hitler always liked the operas of Wagner.

Is it that bad, my Lord? I'm recording it on a MD at the moment, because I'm listening online to the weekly 3-hour Saturday afternoon theme programme on WDR 3. This week's theme is honour.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:51:20, 31-03-2007 »
Adolf's taste in paintings was retrograde as well.
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« Reply #3 on: 15:52:38, 31-03-2007 »
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Adolf's taste in paintings was retrograde as well.

Felix Mendelssohn was a better painter. Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: 18:22:38, 01-04-2007 »
Quote from: Kittybriton on 15:51:20, 31-03-2007
Adolf's taste in paintings was retrograde as well.


Has anyone read any of the alternative time-line Science Fiction stories which speculate on how different the history of the 20th. Century would have been if only Hitler had got into art college??!
(And/or Stalin hadn't been expelled from Theoloogical College....mind you, I always think of Stalin as a 20th. Century version of The Grand Inquisitor.....)
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« Reply #5 on: 18:31:32, 01-04-2007 »
Adolf was ok, apart from being insane.

If he had read epicurus instead of nietzche he would have just got a job teaching art or in an art dealership, all that 'will to power' went to his head i reckon.
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« Reply #6 on: 19:42:24, 01-04-2007 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 18:31:32, 01-04-2007
all that 'will to power' went to his head i reckon.

Yes, I believe it did.



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« Reply #7 on: 19:45:30, 01-04-2007 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 15:11:14, 31-03-2007
Interesting to know Hitler always liked the operas of Wagner.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/saturday_play.shtml

Should be pointed out that there is no evidence known of that Hitler was at all acquainted with any of Wagner's writings, though (including in particular Das Judenthum in der Musik).
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« Reply #8 on: 12:36:00, 02-04-2007 »
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Has anyone read any of the alternative time-line Science Fiction stories which speculate on how different the history of the 20th. Century would have been if only Hitler had got into art college??!
(And/or Stalin hadn't been expelled from Theoloogical College....mind you, I always think of Stalin as a 20th. Century version of The Grand Inquisitor.....)

Harry Turtledove has done quite a few very plausible stories on the basis of "what if...", World War II interrupted by an alien invasion, for example. The resulting scenario had most of Europe controlled by the Axis powers, the American continent divided between aliens and Allied powers, and Australia largely under the control of the aliens IIRC.
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« Reply #9 on: 14:12:28, 02-04-2007 »
Now that I've heard the complete play, I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed. Technically it was a lot better than the average afternoon play on Radio 4, but the story was very dull.

Now there's an achievement: writing a dull play about Hitler and Freud. Undecided
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« Reply #10 on: 19:03:47, 02-04-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 14:12:28, 02-04-2007
Now that I've heard the complete play, I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed. Technically it was a lot better than the average afternoon play on Radio 4, but the story was very dull.

Now there's an achievement: writing a dull play about Hitler and Freud. Undecided

It's probably inevitable. They're so terrified of making Hitler sound sympathetic that it has them writing like Brecht.
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« Reply #11 on: 19:07:57, 02-04-2007 »
I would love to hear a real classic play. I'm reading George Steiner's study Antigones at the moment. Some Sophocles on a Saturday afternoon would be wonderful.
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