From artistic diversity to coordinated culture

Until the National Socialist takeover, the Kaiserhof presented a colourful programme featuring both national and international artists. This changed abruptly in 1933, as the programme booklets show. Productions were adapted to the National Socialist ideology and Jewish artists such as the popular carnival performer Hans Tobar were banned from performing. Not all of them managed, like Hans Tobar, to emigrate and continue their artistic activities in a new homeland.