Mirjana Plath

Doctoral Research Fellow - IMV stab

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Subject of the doctoral thesis are the transfer processes of popular musical theatre from Vienna and Berlin to Stockholm from the late 1920s to the late 1940s. The focus lies on the strategies of adapting initially German-language operettas for stagings in Stockholm and exploring the circumstances of popular musical theatre production in Stockholm.

Background

Mirjana Plath studied art history, media studies, and musicology (Bachelor of Arts) at the University of Marburg and the University of Oslo. She graduated with a master’s degree in musicology from the University of Vienna and worked as a research fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Besides her scientific research, she worked with major European music festivals such as Lucerne Festival and Grafenegg Festival, furthermore at the Vienna Volksoper, the publisher Schott Music, and Klassik Radio in Hamburg.

Tags: Musicology, Music History, Opera Studies, Popular Musical Theatre, Transfer studies, Music and Politics, Cultural politics, Music and Cultural Understanding, Music of the Twentieth Century

Plath, Mirjana (2023). Rosen in Tirol? Aspekte des Tirolerischen in Carl Zellers Operette Der Vogelhändler. Nestroyana – Blätter der Internationalen Nestroy-Gesellschaft. ISSN 1027-3921. 43(3/4), p. 118–137.

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Plath, Mirjana (2023). Preface: Xaver Scharwenka - König Witichis‘ Werbung. Episode from Mataswintha for large orchestra.
Plath, Mirjana (2023). Popular Music Cultures of the 20th and 21st Centuries. [Radio]. Oslo.
Plath, Mirjana (2023). German operetta as a means of escape for Nazi persecutees to Stockholm in the 1930s. Show summary
In 1935, the operetta star Max Hansen celebrated a triumphal success with his staging of Värdshuset vita hästen in Stockholm, a Swedish translation of the German popular music theater piece Im weißen Rössl (world premiere: 1930 in Berlin). Hansen had made himself a striking career in Germany in the 1920s as a cabaret artist, singer, and operetta performer. Being of Jewish descent, he moved to safer places in Europe after Hitler came to power, finally arriving in Stockholm and continuing to perform his repertoire there. By working with operettas he already knew from his years in Germany, Hansen could continue his success in Sweden. But he didn’t only help operetta to another heyday in Stockholm: With his stagings, he also functioned as a beacon of hope for persecuted operetta artists. As letters to Hansen show, German and Austrian artists begged him to get an engagement in Hansen’s stagings and hence find a way to escape from the National Socialists. In this paper, I will examine the impact of Max Hansen on the operetta transfers from Berlin to Stockholm in the 1930s, with a special focus on the musical theater work Im weißen Rössl. Even though Stockholm had a thriving operetta scene for over 100 years (Paavolainen, 2020), there has been little research on this subject. The 1930s are an interesting decade to look at, with its fateful developments in Europe and especially Germany causing the mobility of many operetta artists. Therefore, this paper wants to shed light on the impact of people like Max Hansen and their role in the transfer of popular music theater at a time of persecution.
Plath, Mirjana (2023). Populäres Unterhaltungstheater aus Berlin und Wien als Exportschlager in Stockholm. Operettentransfer in der Zwischenkriegszeit im Kontext von Politik und Populärkultur .
Plath, Mirjana (2023). “Adjeu Mimi!“: A Case Study of Popular Music Theatre Transfer from Vienna to Sweden.
Plath, Mirjana (2023). Rosen in Tirol? Aspekte des Tirolerischen in der Wiener Operette.
Plath, Mirjana (2023). Preface: Victor Bendix - Symphony No. 2 (Summer Sounds from Southern Russia) op. 20.
Plath, Mirjana (2022). Transfer of Operettas between Vienna and Stockholm in the 1920s.
Plath, Mirjana (2022). Images of Tyrol in Viennese Operetta.
Plath, Mirjana (2015). Review: Olivier Moeschler: Der Schweizer Film: Kulturpolitik im Wandel: der Staat, die Filmschaffenden, das Publikum. MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews. ISSN 1431-5262. 32, p. 13–13. doi: 10.25969/mediarep/5187.

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