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Breaking Free: Die wunderbare Welt des LGBTQ-Musicals
Breaking Free: Die wunderbare Welt des LGBTQ-Musicals ist das erste deutschsprachige Buch, das sich die Erfolgsgeschichte von LGBTQ-Darstellungen im Musical genauer anschaut. Eine Repräsentation, die inzwischen über Netflix, Amazon Prime und YouTube auch hierzulande ein Massenpublikum erreicht. Zudem stellt das Buch die vielen historischen und neuen Stücke vor, die am Broadway in New York oder am West End in London die LGBTQ-Musicalrevolution vorangetrieben haben – viele der entsprechenden Titel warten in Deutschland immer noch auf eine Erstaufführung, sind aber über digitale Portale inzwischen einfach zugänglich geworden. Herausgeber Kevin Clarke hat für Breaking Free eine Vielzahl prominenter Autor:innen gewinnen können sowohl etablierte Musicalforscher:innen aus den USA als auch junge Wissenschaftler:innen aus Deutschland. Das Vorwort schrieb Barrie Kosky, Interviews mit Musicalstars und Schauspieler:innen ergänzen die Beiträge.
380 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2022
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Kevin Clarke
13 books2 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
The German-Irish publicist Dr. Kevin Clarke was born in Berlin in 1967. He studied musicology and literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Milan before working as a journalist for the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and the magazines Bunte and Playboy.
From 2003 onwards he wrote for the opera magazine Orpheus and De Groene Amsterdammer from the Netherlands. He produced a series of broadcasts for the German radio station SWR on “Composers in Exile” and wrote his PhD on Emmerich Kálmán and the Transatlantic Operetta 1928-1932.
In 2007, his books Glitter and be Gay: Authentic Operetta and Its Gay Admirers and The White Horse Inn: The History of an International Success were published. In 2009, he gave a lecture on “The Pornography of Operetta” at the University of Amiens, which kicked off his current interest in the general history of porn.
In 2006, Clarke founded the Operetta Research Center Amsterdam of which he is the director. He teaches at the Conservatory of Tilburg and was curator of the 2010 exhibition Erik Charell and the Homosexuality of Operetta at the Schwule Museum Berlin.
Since 2011 he is editor-in-chief of the German magazine Männer.
The German-Irish publicist Dr. Kevin Clarke was born in Berlin in 1967. He studied musicology and literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Milan before working as a journalist for the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and the magazines Bunte and Playboy.
From 2003 onwards he wrote for the opera magazine Orpheus and De Groene Amsterdammer from the Netherlands. He produced a series of broadcasts for the German radio station SWR on “Composers in Exile” and wrote his PhD on Emmerich Kálmán and the Transatlantic Operetta 1928-1932.
In 2007, his books Glitter and be Gay: Authentic Operetta and Its Gay Admirers and The White Horse Inn: The History of an International Success were published. In 2009, he gave a lecture on “The Pornography of Operetta” at the University of Amiens, which kicked off his current interest in the general history of porn.
In 2006, Clarke founded the Operetta Research Center Amsterdam of which he is the director. He teaches at the Conservatory of Tilburg and was curator of the 2010 exhibition Erik Charell and the Homosexuality of Operetta at the Schwule Museum Berlin.
Since 2011 he is editor-in-chief of the German magazine Männer.
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