All the Anne Franks (10th February 2025)

In their very first episode, Sam and Alex explore stage adaptations of Anne Frank’s diary - including one man’s obsession with telling Anne’s story; how most people don’t realise how a single play has impacted their perception of the Diary; ideas on how working with a stage adaptation can help students engage in different ways; and how Sam bumped into Otto Frank in Amsterdam…

Hosts: Samantha Mitschke & Alexandra Gellner

Executive Producer: Samantha Mitschke

Producer / Editor: Alexandra Gellner

Music: “⁠Image⁠” by ⁠Infraction Music⁠

Contact: ⁠https://holocaustonstage.com/contact/⁠

Episode Sources

Books & Articles

Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie (ed.) (2011) Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Oxford University Press.

Anne Frank; Otto H. Frank, & Mirjam Pressler (ed.); Susan Massotty (trans.) (2002) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, 60th Anniversary edition. Puffin Books.

David L. Goodrich (2001) The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics. Southern Illinois University Press.

Graver, Laurence (1995) An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and theDiary. University of California Press.

Edward R. Isser (1997) Stages of Annihilation: Theatrical Representations of the Holocaust. Associated University Presses.

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1999) Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. Basic Books.

Carol Ann Lee (1999) Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank. BCA.

Carol Ann Lee (2002) The Hidden Life of Otto Frank. Penguin Books.

Meyer Levin (1950) In Search. Authors’ Press.

Samantha Mitschke (2018) ‘Have We Found Anne Frank? A Critical Analysis of Theater Amsterdam’s Anne,’ in Kara Reilly (ed.) (2018) Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143-160.

Claude Schumacher (ed.) (1998) Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in drama and performance. Cambridge University Press.

Plays

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (1956) The Diary of Anne Frank. Samuel French.

Wendy Kesselman (2000) The Diary of Anne Frank. Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Meyer Levin (1967) Anne Frank: A Play. Private publication.

Other sources

Samantha Mitschke (2015) Empathy Effects: Towards an understanding of empathy in British and American Holocaust theatre. PhD thesis, University of Birmingham.

Theater Amsterdam’s⁠ Anne⁠ (ImagineNation)

Tereska Torres (Undated)The haunted houses of Meyer Levin. Unpublished manuscript.