Zwischen Anpassung und Resistenz
Johann Sebastian Bach was a projection screen for ideologically shaped cultural policy under both National Socialism and the GDR. Artists served as propaganda instruments in both regimes' efforts to gain political legitimacy. As cultural ambassadors of two dictatorships, the Thomaskantors Karl Straube, Günther Ramin, Kurt Thomas and Erhard Mauersberger, together with the Thomaner, walked a fine line between artistic freedom ...