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Cinema & Theater

Magazine for film and theatre fans.

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Collectie: Anne Frank Stichting

Cinema & Theater, 29 april 1944, nummer 18

Collectie: Anne Frank Stichting Copyright: Publiek domein

On 18 April 1944, Anne Frank writes: "Mr. Kugler is getting better and better at supplying us with journals, each week Cinema & Theater, many Prinsen and Rok der Vrouw, each week Haagsche Post, sometime das Reich and others."[1]

Cinema & Theater was a magazine for film and theatre buffs. De Film-Wereld, the first Dutch film magazine for the general public, had been published since 1918. In 1921, it was renamed Cinema & Theater, which existed until 1944.[2] Before the war, the magazine offered purely light-hearted entertainment. The lavishly illustrated family magazine featured films, but also theater, puzzles, feuilletons, short stories, recipes and other light-hearted subjects. The magazine was published by Nederlandsche Rotogravure Maatschappij in Leiden, but was taken over in late 1941 by Opbouw, the publisher of the German national socialist publisher Johann Kasper.[3]

Victor Kugler regularly took the magazine to Anne Frank.[4] According to him, Cinema & Theater was the only one of its kind that was "nicht von der Nazi-Propaganda verseucht".[5] However, the magazine did contain advertisements from the Deutsches Theater in den Niederlanden, bearing swastika emblems.[6] The magazine also placed advertisements for "Strengthening Sports Camps" and the "Germanic Land Service".[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 18 April 1944, in: The Collected Works; transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Zie: Joan Hemels & Renée Vegt, Het geïllustreerde tijdschrift in Nederland: bron van kennis en vermaak, lust voor het oog. Bibliografie. Deel I: 1940-1945, Amsterdam: Otto Cramwinckel, 1993, p. 127-129; Elsbeth Kwant, Marieke van Delft, Reinder Storm (samenst. & red.), Het Tijdschriftenboek, Zwolle: Waanders, 2006, p. 304; Marieke van Delft, Nel van Dijk, Reinder Storm (red.), Magazine! 150 jaar Nederlandse publiekstijdschriften, Zwolle: Waanders, 2006, p. 72-73; Eye Filmmuseum: Vakpers en fan magazines.
  3. ^ Erik Werkman, 'Een filmtijdschrift in oorlogstijd: Cinema & Theater als speelbal van uitgeversperikelen', in: ZL, 5 (2005-2006) 1, p. 42-57.
  4. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 22 January 1944 and 18 april 1944, in: The Collected Works.
  5. ^ Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, Archief Ernst Schnabel: Victor Kugler aan Ernst Schnabel, 17 september 1957.
  6. ^ Cinema & Theater, 20 augustus 1943.
  7. ^ Cinema & Theater, o.a. 5 februari en 13 mei 1944.