Essays on twentieth-century German drama and theater : an American reception, 1977-1999 / edited by Hellmut Hal Rennert.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Rennert, Hellmut H.

Series:

• New German-American studies ; v. 19.
• New German-American studies ; v. 19 = Neue deutsch-amerikanische Studien

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• German drama--20th century--History and criticism.
• German drama.
• Theater--Germany--History--20th century.
• Theater.
• Germany.
• History.
• German drama--20th century--Appreciation--United States.
• German drama--Appreciation.
• United States.

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Physical Description:

xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2004]

Contents:

• German drama and theater in German-speaking countries today
• I. Performance and theory. Incoherence as meaning: from the real to the explosive
• Sign and referent in the work of Robert Wilson: reconstituting the human form
• Forging a link between stage and world: the genre of director's drama
• Spatio-temporality as theater performance
• The uses of audience participation: theater's engagement in social experience
• Building an audience: Craig's and Brecht's theories of dramatic performance
• II. Expressionism. Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts as a metaphor for chaos
• Ernst Toller's Masse-Mensch: the individual versus the collective
• Hasenclever's Sinnenglück und Seelenfrieden as metaphor for suicide
• Reinhard Goering's Seeschlacht and the expressionist vision
• Mankind and Sun: German-American expressionism
• Expressionism and deconstructionism: a critical comparison
• Arnolt Bronnen's austro-expressionist war plays
• III. Third Reich. The theater in and out of the Third Reich: the German stage "In [entitled] Extremis"
• Anti war discourse in war drama: Sigmund Graff and Die endlose Strasse
• An "ancient German rediscovered": the Nazi Widukind plays of Forster and Kiss
• Stages of reform: Caroline Neuber/Die Neuberin in the Third Reich
• Gewalt, Gott, Natur, Volk: the performance of Nazi ideology in Kolbenheyer's Gregor und Heinrich
• Gerhart Hauptmann's Ratten (1911) at the Rose (1936)
• Rules, regulations, and the Reich: comedy under the auspices of the Propaganda Ministry
• IV. Bertolt Brecht. The performance of ideology and dialectics in Brecht's Life of Galileo
• Reviving Brecht: transformations, or the reciprocity of outward signs and inward states
• Saving the fallen city of Mahagonny: the musical elaboration of Brecht's epic theater
• Brecht's gestic vision for the opera: why the shock of recognition is more powerful in the Rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny than in The three penny opera
• Brecht's Life of Galileo as a Aristotelian tragedy
• Post-World War II. Max Frisch's The great wall of China and the language of re-emergence
• A fictional response to political circumstance: Martin Walser's The rabbit race Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Das Opfer Helena: another triumph of the "they" VI. Contemporary. Cry Beyond the Hamlets: Peter Handke's dramatic poem and the tragic tradition The rebellion of the body against the effects of ideas: Heiner Müller's concept of tragedy
• Darkness visible: Peter Turrini and the scripted life
• Woman takes center stage: three versions of "The female condition" on the German theater stage today
• The representation of foreigners in German and Austrian plays of the 1990s by female playwrights
• Conquering the south pole and other places in Germany: Manfred Karge's plays.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Essays on twentieth-century German drama and theater.

ISBN:

• 0820444030
• 9780820444031

OCLC:

50410527