Dreyfus Affair - Portraits of The Affair in Various Media

Portraits of The Affair in Various Media

Literature
  • The Dreyfus Centenary Bulletin, London/Bonn 1994; The Dreyfus Centenary Committee.
  • The Dreyfus affair plays an important part in In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, especially Vols. 3 and 4.
  • L´Affaire en Chanson, 1994 by George Whyte; Paris Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine BDIC; Paris, Flammarion.
  • A satirical take on the Dreyfus affair appears in L'ile Des Pingouins by Anatole France.
  • The Dreyfus Affair is mentioned several times in The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt.
  • The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte, Inter Nationes, 1996.
  • The Dreyfus Affair, A Chronological History by George Whyte, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  • Admission is not Acceptance – Reflections on the Dreyfus Affair. Antisemitism. George Whyte. London Valentine Mitchell, 2007; Paris Editions Le Manuscript/Unesco 2008, Buenos Aires Lilmod 2009, Moscow Xonokoct 2010.
  • A Man in Uniform, by Kate Taylor, 2010.
  • The Dreyfus Affair is woven into the plot of Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery (2010).
  • Die Dreyfus Affaere – Die Macht des Vorurteils, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60218-8
  • The Dreyfus Affair – A Trilogy of Plays, Oberon Books, London, January 2011.
  • Poems written by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) about the affair:
"Dreyfus" – published in Poet Lore (September 1898) and subsequently in Mine and Thine (1904).
"Dreyfus" – a fugitive poem published in The Independent (16 February 1899).
"Picquart" – published in The Century Magazine (July 1902) and subsequently in Mine and Thine (1904) and Poems Vol II.
"Le Grand Salut" – published in The Living Age (25 August 1906) and subsequently in Lyrics of Life (1909) and Poems Vol II.
Theatre
  • Seymour Hicks wrote a drama called One of the Best, based on the Dreyfus trial, starring William Terriss. It played at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1895. The idea was suggested to Hicks by W. S. Gilbert.
  • AJIOM/Captain Dreyfus, Musical. Music and text by George Whyte, 1992.
  • The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte (in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996); the dance drama Dreyfus-J'accuse (Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage (Arte, April 1994; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.
  • Dreyfus Intime by George Whyte, Opernhaus Zurich, December 2008; Jüdisches Museum Berlin, May 2009. Also in German, English, French, Hungarian, Hebrew and Czech.
  • Dreyfus: Prisoner of Devil's Island – Music Theatre piece – Music and Lyrics by Bryan Kesselman, St Giles Cripplegate, London, November 1998; Part of the 9th London international Jewish Music Festival.
Films
  • The court proceedings on the Dreyfus affair were the first to be documented in cinema.
  • L'Affaire Dreyfus, Georges Méliès, France, 1899.
  • Trial of Captain Dreyfus USA, 1899.
  • Dreyfus, Richard Oswald, Germany, 1930.
  • The Dreyfus Case, F. W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer, United Kingdom, 1931.
  • The Life of Emile Zola, USA, 1937.
  • I Accuse!, José Ferrer, United Kingdom, 1958.
  • Prisoner of Honor, directed by Ken Russell, historical advisor George Whyte, focuses on the efforts of Colonel Picquart to have the sentence of Alfred Dreyfus overturned. Colonel Picquart was played by American actor Richard Dreyfuss, who "grew up thinking that Alfred Dreyfus and are of the same family." USA, 1991.
  • L'Affaire Dreyfus (released in Germany as Die Affäre Dreyfus), Yves Boisset, 1995.
  • The Majestic, Discussed by Jim Carrey's character in this film. USA, 2001
Radio
  • BBC Radio, J'Accuse, UK, Hattie Naylor. Radio dramatisation inspired by a newspaper article written by Emile Zola in response to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s. BBC Radio 4, broadcast on 13 June 2009.
  • L'Affaire Dreyfus, interview with George Whyte, France Culture, 25 March 1995.
  • J'accuse, George Whyte, Canadian Broadcasting Service (CBS), 10 October 1998.
  • The Dreyfus Affair, interview with George Whyte, BBC Radio 3. By John Pilgrim, 28 October 2005.
Television
  • The Time Tunnel, episode Devil's Island. Story in which Drs. Newman & Phillips encounter Captain Dreyfus, newly arrived on Devil's Island. ABC, broadcast on 11 November 1966.
  • Affaire Dreyfuss, a television film broadcast in Germany on ZDF, 8 November 1968.
  • Dreyfus in Opera and Ballet/The Odyssey of George Whyte, September 1994, WDR, Swedish, Hungarian and Finnish television.
  • Rage and Outrage – a musical satire by George R. Whyte, broadcast on Arte and Channel 4, May 1994.
  • Dreyfus-J’Accuse Dance drama by George Whyte. Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994. WDR, Sweden STV1, Slovenia RTV, SLO, Finland YLE.
  • In the first season episode "Rock-a-Bye Munster", of the TV show "The Munsters", Herman and Lilly mention meeting 'that charming Captain Dreyfus' on their honeymoon at Devil's Island.
Radio discussion
  • "In Our Time, The Dreyfus Affair" Downloadable discussion on BBC Radio 4. Melvyn Bragg; Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History at Oxford University; Ruth Harris, Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University; Robert Tombs, Professor of French History at Cambridge University.
  • Interview with Ruth Harris about her book Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, And the Scandal of the Century (2010).

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