Postwar Austrian Theater

Author : Linda C. DeMeritt,Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056167433

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Postwar Austrian Theater by Linda C. DeMeritt,Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger Pdf

This collection of seventeen articles offers an investigation of some of the most important voices from Austria's theatre world between 1945 and 2001. They are for the most part critical voices engaged in the constantly evolving redefinition of a political state and its private citizens, undermining the status quo and the general complacency. They include both writers, producers and directors, for the written word must take shape on stage and the real debate of drama takes place in a public space. Therefore this volume attempts to include issues of staging and reception where possible. Taken as a whole this volume is intended to show the incredible richness and variety of the theatre scene in Austria.

Author : Maria Fritsche
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857459466

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Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema by Maria Fritsche Pdf

Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a disrupted society. Through detailed analysis of the stylistic patterns, narratives and major themes of four popular genres of the time, costume film, Heimatfilm, tourist film and comedy, the book explains how popular cinema helped to shape national identity, smoothed conflicted gender relations and relieved the Austrians from the burden of the Nazi past through celebrating the harmonious, charming, musical Austrian man.

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : London : Pitman
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015000670318

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German Theatre Today by Michael Patterson Pdf

Author : Robert von Dassanowsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476621470

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Austrian Cinema by Robert von Dassanowsky Pdf

Austria, the multicultural crossroad of the European continent, has been the genesis of many artistic concepts. Just as late 19th and early 20th century Austria gave influential modernism to the world in the fields of medicine, urban planning, architecture, design, literature, music, and theater, so its film industry created a significant national cinema that seeded talents and concepts internationally. Nevertheless, the value of Austrian cinema to international film has been long obscured. Austria’s important bond with American film is also underappreciated because of the lack of accessible English language scholarship on the early careers of Austro-Hollywood artists and on influential developments in Austrian film history. This first comprehensive English survey of Austrian film introduces more than a century of cinema, following the development of the industry chronologically through the nation’s various transformations since 1895. Important industry movements, genres and films are highlighted with sociopolitical, cultural and aesthetic details. An analysis of the economic trends that have influenced Austrian film is also provided. The survey considers the directors, actors, producers, writers, cinematographers, editors, composers and other film artists who have been essential to the development and influence of Austrian cinema. The closing chapter anticipates new faces of the Austrian film industry in the 21st century.

Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587298929

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Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War by Marvin Carlson Pdf

In almost every area of production, German theatre of the past forty years has achieved a level of distinction unique in the international community. This flourishing theatrical culture has encouraged a large number of outstanding actors, directors, and designers as well as video and film artists. The dominant figure throughout these years, however, has remained the director. In this stimulating and informative book, noted theatre historian Marvin Carlson presents an in-depth study of the artistic careers, working methods, and most important productions of ten of the leading directors of this great period of German staging. Beginning with the leaders of the new generation that emerged in the turbulent late 1960s—Peter Stein, Peter Zadek, and Claus Peymann, all still major figures today—Carlson continues with the generation that appeared in the 1980s, particularly after reunification—Frank Castorf, Anna Viebrock, Andrea Breth, and Christoph Marthaler—and concludes with the leading directors to emerge after the turn of the century, Stefan Pucher, Thomas Ostermeier, and Michael Thalheimer. He also provides information not readily available elsewhere in English on many of the leading actors and dramatists as well as the designers whose work, much of it for productions of these directors, has made this last half century a golden age of German scenic design. During the late twentieth century, no country produced so many major theatre directors or placed them so high in national cultural esteem as Germany. Drawing on his years of regular visits to the Theatertreffen in Berlin and other German productions, Carlson will captivate students of theatre and modern German history and culture with his provocative, well-illustrated study of the most productive and innovative theatre tradition in Europe.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139477413

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Holocaust Drama by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Sandra Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004370463

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Oscar Wilde in Vienna by Sandra Mayer Pdf

In Oscar Wilde in Vienna, Sandra Mayer examines the reception and performance history of Oscar Wilde’s dramatic works on Viennese stages from the turn of the twentieth century up to the present.

Author : Hester Baer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857456175

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Dismantling the Dream Factory by Hester Baer Pdf

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to 'dismantle the dream factory' of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic. In an era when female viewers comprised 70 per cent of cinema audiences a 'women's cinema' emerged, which sought to appeal to female spectators through its genres, star choices, stories and formal conventions. In addition to analyzing the formal language and narrative content of these films, Baer uses a wide array of other sources to reconstruct the original context of their reception, including promotional and publicity materials, film programs, censorship documents, reviews and spreads in fan magazines. This book presents a new take on an essential period, which saw the rebirth of German cinema after its thorough delegitimization under the Nazi regime.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004292307

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Anglo-German Theatrical Exchange by Anonim Pdf

Through the great diversity of topics and methodologies the essays in this volume make a seminal contribution to an under-researched field at the intersection of literary and cultural criticism, comparative literature, and theatre as well as translation studies. The essays cover a wide range of texts from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. From a broad variety of perspectives the exchange between drama and theatre of the Anglophone and the Germanophone worlds and their mutual influence are explored. While there is a focus on the successful or unsuccessful bridging of the cultural gaps, due consideration is given to the nexus between intercultural translation and mise en scène as well as the intricacies of intermedial reshaping. Always placing the analyses within the political and socio-historical contexts the essays make an innovative contribution to the aesthetics of Anglo-German theatrical exchange as well as to European cultural history.

Author : Gundolf Graml
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789204490

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Revisiting Austria by Gundolf Graml Pdf

Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria’s emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nation’s cities, spa towns, and wilderness areas, a phenomenon that would prove immensely influential on the development of a postwar identity. Revisiting Austria incorporates films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

Author : Britta Kallin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123285616

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The Presentation of Racism in Contemporary German and Austrian Theater by Britta Kallin Pdf

This study explores postcolonial representations of ethnic minorities and the construction of national identities in plays written by six contemporary German-speaking women playwrights, drawing on approaches of cultural and postcolonial studies, African American and other minority feminist criticism, as well as Anglo-American and German feminist scholarship. The study finds that minority characters are reduced to function as catalysts for problems of the German and Austrian community. This work will appeal to scholars in German Studies, feminist studies, and drama.

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Bryce Lease,Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351620536

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Contemporary European Playwrights by Maria M. Delgado,Bryce Lease,Dan Rebellato Pdf

Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent’s society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today. Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the most widely-performed European playwrights, assessing how their work has revealed new meanings and theatrical possibilities as they move across the continent, building an unprecedented picture of the contemporary European repertoire. With chapters by leading scholars and contributions by the writers themselves, the chapters bring playwrights together to examine their work as part of a network and genealogy of writing, examining how these plays embody and interrogate the nature of contemporary Europe. Written for students and scholars of European theatre and playwriting, this book will leave the reader with an understanding of the shifting relationships between the subsidized and commercial, the alternative and the mainstream stage, and political stakes of playmaking in European theatre since 1989.

Author : René Agostini,Madelena Gonzalez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443882316

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Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama by René Agostini,Madelena Gonzalez Pdf

The conviction that the development and promotion of the arts, humanities and culture through the study of literature and the aesthetic are the fundamental constituents of any progress in society is at the heart of this volume. The essays gathered here explore the role of the imagination and aesthetic awareness in an age when the corporatization of knowledge is in the process of transforming literary studies, and political commitment is in danger of disappearing behind a supposedly post-ideological late-capitalist consensus. The main focus of the volume is the mutual implication of aesthetics and ideology and the status and value of different types of art within the political arena. Challenging issues in contemporary aesthetics are examined within the wider framework of current debates on the disappearance of the real, the crisis in representation, and the use of new media. The wide range of examples collected here, stretching from experimental poetry in post-war Germany, political commitment in twentieth-century French theatre, and countercultural Rumanian theatre under Ceaușescu, to Neo-Victorian fiction, Verbatim theatre in the UK, and political theatre for the masses in Estonia, vouchsafe unique insights into the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and the practical consequences thereof. As such, the volume opens up a space for a meaningful engagement with authentic forms of art from inside and outside the Anglosphere, and, ultimately, uses these examples as a platform from which to imagine some form of “aesthethics”, representing an ideal union of aesthetics and ideology. This concept, first coined by the French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, will prove to be relevant both within the parameters of the examples discussed here, but also beyond, for the contributors to this volume are unanimous in refusing to believe that aesthetics and ideology can exist one without the other, and in recognizing the centrality of ethics in any discussion of these notions.

Author : Matthias Konzett,Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838641547

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Elfriede Jelinek by Matthias Konzett,Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger Pdf

Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, is the important living German-speaking author. She has influenced the German and European literary scene for almost four decades. This volume provides an introduction to this important prose writer, dramatist, and essayist of postwar German literature.

Author : Katherine Arens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441175601

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Vienna's Dreams of Europe by Katherine Arens Pdf

Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. Challenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.