Revolutionary Theater And The Classical Heritage

Author : Michael David Richardson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 3039107240

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Revolutionary Theater and the Classical Heritage by Michael David Richardson Pdf

This study analyzes the work of three prominent proletarian-revolutionary dramatists at the end of the Weimar Republic. The work of Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Wolf, and Gustav von Wangenheim is looked at against the backdrop of debates among Marxist intellectuals and artists. Through a discussion of theatrical theory and close readings of individual plays, this work examines the authors' unique aesthetics and their enactment of a critical appropriation of the German literary heritage. It also investigates their attempts to transform the audience's relationship to the theatrical production from a passive-receptive to an active-critical one. This volume offers insights into larger questions of political and cultural continuity that characterized the Weimar and the postwar periods.

Author : Zeno Ackermann,Sabine Schülting
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110617924

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Precarious Figurations by Zeno Ackermann,Sabine Schülting Pdf

Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism. In particular, the study investigates how the figure of Shylock has come to be both a device in and a stumbling block for attempts to bridge the fundamental rupture in civilization brought about by the Holocaust. The careful analysis of the German reception of Merchant, and in particular of the ways of doing and reading Shylock in the context of painful German, and German-Jewish, discourses of identity and remembrance, is designed to raise fundamental questions – questions concerning not only the staging of Jewishness, the tenacity of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of Holocaust remembrance, but also the general potentials and limitations of theatrical interventions into cultural conflicts.

Author : Merilyn Moos
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782796763

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Beaten But Not Defeated by Merilyn Moos Pdf

Siegi Moos, an anti-Nazi and active member of the German Communist Party, escaped Germany in 1933 and, exiled in Britain, sought another route to the transformation of capitalism. This biography charts Siegi’s life, starting in Germany when he witnessed the Bavarian uprisings of 1918/19 and moving to the later rise of the extreme right. We follow his progress in Berlin as a committed Communist and an active anti-Nazi in the well-organised Red Front, before much of the German Communist party (KPD) took the Nazis seriously, and his deep involvement in the Free Thinkers and in agit-prop theatre. The book also describes Siegi’s life as an exile: the loss of family, comrades, his first language and ultimately his earlier political beliefs. Against a background of the loneliness of exile, the political and the personal became indissolubly intertwined when Siegi’s wife, Lotte, had a relationship with an Irish/Soviet spy. Lastly, we look into Siegi’s time as a research worker at the prestigious Oxford Institute of Statistics at Oxford University from 1938, becoming an economic advisor under the Labour Prime Minister, Wilson, 1966-1970, and how, finally, after retirement, he returned to writing.

Author : Brandon Woolf
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810143579

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Institutional Theatrics by Brandon Woolf Pdf

Shortlist, 2021 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize In a city struggling to determine just how neoliberal it can afford to be, what kinds of performing arts practices and institutions are necessary—and why? Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle long-standing traditions of state‐subsidized theater even as the city has redefined itself as a global arts epicenter. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways theater artists have responded to these shifts and crises both on- and offstage, offering a method for rethinking the theater as a vital public institution. What is the future of the German theater, grounded historically in large ensembles, extensive repertoires, and auteur directors? Examining the restructuring of Berlin’s theatrical landscape and most prominent performance venues, Brandon Woolf argues that cultural policy is not simply the delegation and distribution of funds. Instead, policy should be thought of as an artistic practice of institutional imagination. Woolf demonstrates how performance can critique its patron institutions in order to transform the relations between the stage and the state, between the theater and the infrastructures of its support. Bold, nuanced, and rigorously documented, Institutional Theatrics offers new insights about art, its administration, and the forces that influence cultural production.

Author : Madeleine Herren,Martin Rüesch,Christiane Sibille
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783642191961

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Transcultural History by Madeleine Herren,Martin Rüesch,Christiane Sibille Pdf

For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past is prologue’ reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narrative, which aims to overcome cultural essentialism by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds. Transcultural History reflects critically on the way history is constructed, asking who formed history in the past and who succeeded in shaping what we call the master narrative. Although trained European historians, the authors aim to present a useful approach to global history, showing first of all how a Eurocentric but universal historiography removed or essentialised certain topics in Asian history. As an empirical discipline, history is based on source material, analysed according to rules resulting from a strong methodological background. This book accesses the global past after World War I, looking at the well known stage of the Paris Peace Conferences, observing the multiplication of new borders and the variety of transgressing institutions, concepts, actors, men and women inventing themselves as global subjects, but sharing a bitter experience with almost all local societies at this time, namely the awareness of having relatives buried in far distant places due to globalised wars.

Author : Robert von Dassanowsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441178534

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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds by Robert von Dassanowsky Pdf

This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is dissected by a range of scholars and writers who take on the director's manipulation of metacinema, Nazisploitation, ethnic stereotyping, gender roles, allohistoricism, geopolitics, philosophy, language, and memory. In this collection, the eroticism of the club-swinging and avenging "Bear Jew," the dashed heroism of the "role-playing" French and German females, the patriotic fools and pawns, the amoral yokel, Lieutenant Aldo Raine, and the cosmopolitan, but psychopathic Colonel Landa, are understood for their true functions in what has become an iconoclastic pop-culture phenomenon and one of the classics of early twenty-first century American cinema. Additionally, the book examines the use of "foreign" languages (subverting English and image), the allegory of Austria's identity in the war, and the particularly French and German cinematic influences, such as R. W. Fassbinder's realignment of the German woman's film and the iconic image of the German film star in Inglourious Basterds.

Author : Jaimey Fisher,Brad Prager
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 081433377X

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The Collapse of the Conventional by Jaimey Fisher,Brad Prager Pdf

Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.

Author : Nicole Shea
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039110020

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The Politics of Prostitution in Berlin Alexanderplatz by Nicole Shea Pdf

Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz is an examination of the gradual disintegration of Germany in the aftermath of the Great War. This study engages the seminal image of the prostitute, the commodified woman, as a central and dominant motif in Döblin's work.

Author : Andrea Dortmann
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303910540X

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Winter Facets by Andrea Dortmann Pdf

Based on a variety of close readings, this book analyzes the use of ice and snow motifs in selected literary, scientific, and philosophical texts by a wide range of European authors from Johannes Kepler to Thomas Mann. The focus of the book is on German literature. While the metaphorical significance of cold imagery has been studied by various scholars, the close relationship between figurations of the cold and writing or reading has so far been overlooked. Compared with other instances of «reading the book of nature», stars or stones for example, the unstable status of snow or ice configurations also renders their literary representation problematic. This inherent tension accounts for the attraction snow and ice have exerted on authors to this day. Particular attention is paid to those texts that negotiate the close rapport between the fragile literary object and the fragile status of language and readability, thus exposing the «fragile legibility» of snow and ice motifs. This focus allows us to address more general issues, such as the shifting status of the aesthetic at the intersection of older natural history and the emergence of modern science; the apocalyptic; and the melancholic implications of cold imagery.

Author : Martin Travers
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039105779

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The Poetry of Gottfried Benn by Martin Travers Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of Gottfried Benn's poetry to appear in English. It covers the entirety of Benn's verse, from his early Morgue cycle (1912) and Expressionist poems through to the «anthropological» poetry of his middle period to the «postmodern» Phase II work after the Second World War. Against the background of the poet's theoretical writings, this study, drawing upon the classic texts of Benn scholarship, analyzes in detail the major themes of his verse and its distinctive idiom. In particular, this work focuses on Gottfried Benn's extended process of rhetorical self-fashioning, his use of classical iconography, color motifs and chiffres, his often confusing historical semantics, the seemingly self-constituting «absolute» poem, and the colloquial idiom of his late verse. The book also engages with the multiplicity of voices in Benn's work and their varied textual forms, the hermeneutically variable positions of speech that they articulate and the often contradictory notion of selfhood to which they give rise.

Author : David Bathrick,Brad Prager,Michael David Richardson
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9781571133830

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Visualizing the Holocaust by David Bathrick,Brad Prager,Michael David Richardson Pdf

Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134569076

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The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134260775

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Reference Guide to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell Pdf

First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

Author : Jost Hermand
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782383857

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Culture in Dark Times by Jost Hermand Pdf

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS—THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles—fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture,” as it was culture that imparted real value to both the state and the individual. But when authorities made pronouncements about “culture” were they really talking about high art? This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of these various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945, with their ownership the object of a bitter struggle between key figures in the Nazi fascist regime, representatives of Inner Emigration, and Germans driven out of the Third Reich.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071560598

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Translations from Kommunist by Anonim Pdf