Performing Captivity, Performing Escape
Cabarets and Plays from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto

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Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Pronunciation Guide
Edition Notes and Conventions
Introduction
Lisa Peschel
Prologue: Terezín Theater
Ivan Klíma
Part 1: Czech-Language Texts
Radio Show
Felix Prokeš, Vítězslav “Pidla” Horpatzky, Pavel Stránský, and Kurt Egerer
Looking for a Specter
Hanuš Hachenburg
Songs from the Revue Prince Bettliegend
František Kowanitz
The Smoke of Home
Zdeněk Eliáš and Jiří Stein
Laugh With Us
The Second Czech Cabaret
Felix Prokeš, Vítězslav “Pidla” Horpatzky, Pavel Weisskopf, and Pavel Stránský
Part 2: German-Language Texts
From the Strauss Cabarets
Leo Strauss and Myra Strauss-Gruhenberg
The Treasure
A Puppet Play in Ten Acts
Arthur Engländer
Purimspiel
Walter Freud
The Death of Orpheus
Georg Kafka
The Insult-but Unintended; or, The Man with the Detective Memory
A Theresienstadt Courtroom Scene
Author Unknown
From the Hofer Cabarets
Hans Hofer
Epilogue: New Year’s Eve
In the Oederan Slave-Labor Camp
Lisa Zeckendorf-Kutzinski
Glossary
Bibliography
Literature and Literary Criticism: Dramatic Works
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