Postwar Austrian Theater: Text and Performance

by Linda C. Demeritt (Introduction), Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Introduction)

Overview

Mostly American scholars of German literature examine a selection of writers and directors in Austria since 1945. They focus on critical voices that seek to undermine the status quo and complacency of the Second Republic. Only names and titles are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781572411074
Publisher:	Ariadne Press
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	v
	Text and Performance in Austria between 1945 and 2000: A Brief Introduction and Highlights	1
	The Persistence of Kasperl in Memory: H. C. Artmann and Peter Handke	33
	Morality and Ambiguity: Fritz Hochwalder's Der Befehl	54
	The Treatment of Fascism in Post-World War II Austrian Theater	71
	Fascination and Provocation in the Works of Thomas Bernhard	92
	Masculinity as Performance in the Plays of Thomas Bernhard	114
	The Return of the Kings: Peter Handke at the Burgtheater	133
	Social and Human Issues in Peter Turrini's Work	153
	Staging a Legend: Claus Peymann's Ingeborg Bachmann. Wer?	170
	In the Beginning was the Word--And before That? Theological Problems in Felix Mitterer's Krach im Hause Gott	191
	The Issue of Male Violence in Dramatic Works of the Two Austrian Republics: Veza Canetti and Felix Mitterer	213
	Body, Voice, and Text in Elisabeth Reichart's Dramatic Monologue Sakkorausch	236
	Staging Superficiality: Elfriede Jelinek's Ein Sportstuck	257
	Figure and Speech on Vienna's Major Stages in the Nineties	277
	"Theater as a Form of Upscale Junkyard": Werner Schwab's Plays: Nonsense That Defies Reason or Disguised Morality?	300
	Corpses and Gendered Bodies: The Theater of Marlene Streeruwitz	328
	Ocean Drive.: Marlene Streeruwitz's Fractal Mise-en-Scene	350
	Contributors	364
	Index	369