Overview

This collection of articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors' work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.

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Author:   Hellmut Hal Rennert ,  Hellmut Hal Rennert
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780820444031

ISBN 10:   0820444030
Pages:   321
Publication Date:   06 January 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: William R. Elwood: Incoherence as Meaning: From the Real to the Expressive - Dean Wilcox: Sign and Referent in the Work of Robert Wilson. Reconstituting the Human Form - Jan Lueder Hagens: Forging a Link Between Stage and World. The Genre of Director's Drama - Sarah Bryant-Bertail: Spatio-Temporality as Theater Performance - Harris L. Gruman: The Uses of Audience Participation. Theater's Engagement in Social Experience - William E. Gruber: Building an Audience. Craig's and Brecht's Theories of Dramatic Performance - William R. Elwood: Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts as a Metaphor for Chaos - William R. Elwood: Ernst Toller's Masse-Mensch. The Individual versus the Collective - William R. Elwood: Hasenclever's Sinnenglueck und Seelenfrieden as Metaphor for Suicide - William R. Elwood: Reinhard Goering's Seeschlacht and the Expressionist Vision - William R. Elwood: Mankind and Sun: German-American Expressionism - William R. Elwood: Expressionism and Deconstructionism: A Critical Comparison - Glen W. Gadberry: Arnolt Bronnen's Austro-Expressionist War Plays Sturm gegen Gott and sturmpatrull - Glen W. Gadberry: The Theater in and of the Third Reich: The German Stage In [entitled] Extremis - William Sonnega: Anti War Discourse in War Drama. Sigmund Graff and Die endlose Strasse - Glen W. Gadberry: An Ancient German Rediscovered: The Nazi Widukind Plays of Forster and Kiss - Glen W. Gadberry: Stages of Reform. Caroline Neuber/Die Neuberin in the Third Reich - Leigh Clemons: Gewalt, Gott, Natur, Volk: The Performance of Nazi Ideology in Kolbenheyer's Gregor und Heinrich - Glen W. Gadberry: Gerhart Hauptmann's Ratten (1911) at the Rose (1936) - William Grange: Rules, Regulations, and the Reich: Comedy under the Auspices of the Propaganda Ministry - Graley Herren: The Performance of Ideology and Dialectics in Brecht's Life of Galileo - Julie Klassen/Ruth Weiner: Reviving Brecht: Transformations, or the Reciprocity of Outward Signs and Inward States - John C. Nichols: Saving the Fallen City of Mahagonny: The Musical Elaboration of Brecht's Epic Theater - Rebecca Hilliker: Brecht's Gestic Vision for 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 - Leslie Ellis: Brecht's Life of Galileo as an Aristotelian Tragedy - Hellmut Hal Rennert: Max Frisch's The Great Wall of China and the Language of Re-Emergence - Juergen Schlunk: A Fictional Response to Political Circumstance: Martin Walser's The Rabbit Race - Patricia Stanley: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Das Opfer Helena: Another Triumph of the They - Christa Carvajal: Cry Beyond the Hamlets: Peter Handke's Dramatic Poem and the Tragic Tradition - Julie Klassen: The Rebellion of the Body Against the Effect of Ideas. Heiner Mueller's Concept of Tragedy - William R. Elwood: Darkness Visible: Peter Turrini and the Scripted Life - Andreas Ryschka: Woman Takes Center Stage: Three Versions of The Female Condition on the German Theater Stage Today - Britta Kallin: The Representation of Foreigners in German and Austrian Plays of the 1990s by Female Playwrights - Ralf Remshardt: Conquering the South Pole and Other Places in Germany. Manfred Karge's Plays.

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The Editor: Hellmut Hal Rennert is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesvillle. His research and publication areas are nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature and cultural studies, including books and articles on Goethe, Moerike, Wilhelm Hausenstein, Brecht, and Marie Luise Kaschnitz.

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