German Ethnic Theatre in Texas: The Nineteenth Century

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1475-4533|23|2|163-176

ISSN: 0040-5574

Source: Theatre Survey, Vol.23, Iss.2, 1982-11, pp. : 163-176

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Abstract

When “the floodgates of emigration from Europe were opened by the political upheavals on the continent in 1848 … Texas was the goal of the thousands of refugees who fled from the turmoil.” Throughout the following decade, waves of German immigrants were thrust onto the shores of the Texas Gulf Coast at Indianola and eventually spread over much of Southwestern and Central Texas.