Carl Zuckmayer Criticism

Author : Hans Wagener
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1571130640

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Carl Zuckmayer Criticism by Hans Wagener Pdf

Together with Bertolt Brecht and Gerhart Hauptmann, Carl Zuckmayer (1890-1977) was one of the most popular and significant German dramatists of the twentieth century. His folk play The Merry Vineyard (1925) marked the end of German expressionism; his comedy The Captain of Kopenick (1931), a scathing satire on German militarism, and his drama The Devil's General (1946), about a Nazi general and German resistance, were some of the most frequently performed plays in recent German theater history. During the Third Reich Zuckmayer's works were banned in Germany while their author lived as an exile in the United States, trying to survive as a farmer in Vermont. For that reason, Zuckmayer scholarship was off to a slow start. Wagener demonstrates that it received its main impetus from the United States where the majority of dissertations on Zuckmayer were written. He shows the development of scholarship from reviews to general assessments, from positivistic biographical fact finding to the New Criticism and finally to recent modes of critical assessment, including feminist criticism. Wagener draws particular attention to the role of the Carl Zuckmayer Society in critical discourse about this neglected author.

Author : Allan Mitchell
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781490768922

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Unrepentant Patriot by Allan Mitchell Pdf

Carl Zuckmayers illustrious career as one of Central Europes most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. His plays were banned during the following twelve years, and he was forced to flee into exile, first in Austria and then in the United States. His return to Germany after the war was fraught with difficulty as he sought to find his place amid the destruction and dislocation of his native land. Zuckmayer finally settled in a remote village in the Swiss Alps, where he died in 1977. This book attempts to summarize and evaluate Carl Zuckmayers life and work. Part 1 is biographical, fleshing out his time as a schoolboy in Mainz, his military service during the First World War (during which he was severely wounded), his erratic ascent as a luminary in the world of European theater, his expatriate years of isolation on a farm in Vermont, and his efforts to reestablish a comfortable home and creative activity after his postwar return to Europe. Part 2 concentrates on Zuckmayers satirical plays and stage productions. After a few notable failures at the outset, he developed a remarkable talent for comic invention, thereby earning the distinction of being perhaps Europes most prestigious dramatic author for a time. While in Vermont, he enhanced his reputation by composing a disturbing account of German resistance to Nazism, The Devils General, frequently performed throughout both Western and Eastern Europe and subsequently made into an internationally acclaimed film. This analysis of Zuckmayers most salient writings is further buttressed by an examination of his extensive personal correspondence, now collected and available in the German Literature Archive in Marbach. There is no other study in the English language that presents such a concise yet comprehensive biography of Carl Zuckmayer as well as a review of his major works.

Author : Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817358075

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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33 by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix Pdf

Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest--theatre and war.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137000613

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Staging Holocaust Resistance by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.

Author : Carl Zuckmayer,Karl Barth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : UOM:39015050667313

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A Late Friendship by Carl Zuckmayer,Karl Barth Pdf

In his circular letter to those friends who had sent greetings to him on the occasion of his 82nd birthday, Karl Barth penned the following: "Finally, in high old age a remarkable friendship has been my lot, namely, with poet Carl Zuckmayer. . . . What a man he is! He can be very serious and also very merry." The friendship between Barth and Zuckmayer lasted just under two years; yet, as one can tell from the letters included in this volume, it was a deep and meaningful relationship. Calling Barth a "great and respected friend," Zuckmayer wrote in a letter to Barth's assistant, "I received only kindness and warmth from him, and the stringent and postulating way in which he conducted dialogue always benefited and strengthened me." The letters, which show a personal side of the two men not often found in their respective works, cover a variety of subjects. As Zuckmayer says in his essay "Story of a Late Friendship" (included in this volume), "Everything concerning everyday life and world events and daily politics occupied him [Barth] and aroused his criticism and lively interest." The two also exchanged ideas and plans for projects--both teaching and writing--and evaluated each other's works and those of other authors. The volume includes a letter Zuckmayer wrote to Eberhard Busch after Barth's death, a poem Zuckmayer wrote and sent to Barth, and Barth's list of rules for older people in relation to younger.

Author : William Grange
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810875197

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Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 by William Grange Pdf

The history of this period in German literature is told through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a comprehensive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on poetry, novels, historical narrative, philosophical musings, drama, and the exceptional writers who emerged and shaped German literature over the centuries.

Author : Siegfried Mews
Publisher : Boston : Twayne
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015013312155

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Carl Zuckmayer by Siegfried Mews Pdf

Author : Stephen Brockmann
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1571134107

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German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour by Stephen Brockmann Pdf

The 'zero hour' of the title was 1945, when Germany had to confront total devastation, the crimes of Nazism, the onset of the Cold War, & the division of the country. It was a time of intense intellectual debate, here reviewed through the mediums of literature & literary discourse.

Author : Arnold Bauer
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014314697

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Carl Zuckmayer by Arnold Bauer Pdf

Author : William Grange
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810863149

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Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature by William Grange Pdf

Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to 'dealing with the German past.' There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, while some find them funny or even worth celebrating. German postwar literature has, in the minds of some observers, developed a kind of split personality. In view of the traumatic monstrosities of the previous century that development may seem logical to some. The Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to modern literature produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries. This volume covers an extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called 'zero hour' for German literature and proceeds into the 21st century, concluding in 2008. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on writers, such as Nobel Prize-winners Heinrich Bsll, GYnter Grass, Elias Canetti, Elfriede Jelinek, and W. G. Sebald. There are also entries on individual works, genres, movements, literary styles, and forms.

Author : Peter Hutchinson,Michael Minden
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039115669

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Landmarks in the German Novel by Peter Hutchinson,Michael Minden Pdf

The nine essays in this volume deal with major achievements in the German novel since 1959. They range from the very well known, such as Brussig's Helden wie wir, an extravagant treatment of life under the Stasi and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the much more recondite, such as Hubert Fichte's Detlevs Imitationen «Grünspan», one of the first, and most important, products of the abolition of the discrimination against gays in 1969. What is most surprising about this collection is that, in contrast to the majority of successful novels written in German before 1959, only one of these is by a clearly 'West' German author: Hubert Fichte. There is, by contrast, a surprising number who have their roots in the GDR (Plenzdorf, Wolf, Brussig, Schulze), or in Austria (Bachmann, Bernhard). This is also a period in which women writers emerge powerfully (Bachmann, Wolf, and Özdamar). Virtually all these novels aroused controversy in some quarters at the time of their publication, often for their treatment of semi-taboo, or at least uncomfortable, subject-matter. These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.

Author : Andreas Agocs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107085435

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Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany by Andreas Agocs Pdf

A study of German traditions of cultural renewal from their origins in antifascist activism in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II to their failure during the emerging Cold War in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781604134025

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Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front by Harold Bloom Pdf

Contains nine critical essays that analyze various aspects of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," and includes a chronology of Remarque's life and works.

Author : University of Dayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4509155

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The University of Dayton Review by University of Dayton Pdf

Author : Modris Eksteins
Publisher : HMH
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547525525

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Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins Pdf

This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity. This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. “The Great War,” as Modris Eksteins writes, “was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places.” In this “bold and fertile book” (The Atlantic Monthly), Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm, through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring is a rare and remarkable work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past—and toward our future.