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Dalibor Davidović

Musicologist

Sep 1, 2026

22:05
Does that concept have anything to do with Ziberberg or Ziberberg's relationship to Wagner?
22:10
He wrote about Gesamtkunstwerk indeed many times, but I think what really interested him was a double meaning of that term, or not just the meaning, but the fate of Gesamtkunstwerk as such.
22:27
In his contribution to the exhibition on the realism between the world wars, that was an exhibition in Paris in the early 80s, if I remember well, It was very interesting that all other contributions were learned texts about this or that tendency during the 30s.
22:49
And his text, his contribution was very short and was titled Hitler, the artist of the state.
22:56
So his thesis was that the most radical art, realistic art between the world wars were Hitler's.
23:05
And there he depicts or he discussed the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk in Hitler's case.
23:12
He said there that the really art of the Third Reich was not an architecture of film or literature or visual art.

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51:56
Can you tell us something about this interplay between memory and forgetting in Ziberberg's work? I would say that

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