Theater And Nation In Eighteenth Century Germany
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Theater And Nation In Eighteenth Century Germany
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Author : Michael J. Sosulski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Theater And Nation In Eighteenth Century Germany written by Michael J. Sosulski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? Michael Sosulski contends that the idea of German nationhood not only existed prior to the Napoleonic Wars but was decisive in shaping cultural production in the last third of the eighteenth century, operating not on the level of popular consciousness but instead within representational practices and institutions. Grounding his study in a Foucauldian understanding of emergent technologies of the self, Sosulski connects the increasing performance of body discipline by professional actors, soldiers, and schoolchildren to the growing interest in German national identity. The idea of a German cultural nation gradually emerged as a conceptual force through the work of an influential series of literary intellectuals and advocates of a national theater, including G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller. Sosulski combines fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known dramas, with analysis of eighteenth-century theories of nationhood and evolving acting theories, to show that the very lack of a strong national consciousness in the late eighteenth century actually spurred the emergence of the German Nationaltheater, which were conceived in the spirit of the Enlightenment as educational institutions. Since for Germans, nationality was a performed identity, theater emerged as an ideal space in which to imagine that nation.
German Visitors To English Theaters In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : John Alexander Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
Release Date : 1978
German Visitors To English Theaters In The Eighteenth Century written by John Alexander Kelly and has been published by Octagon Press, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Literary Criticism categories.
Staging Blackness And Performing Whiteness In Eighteenth Century German Drama
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Author : Wendy Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Staging Blackness And Performing Whiteness In Eighteenth Century German Drama written by Wendy Sutherland and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean function as the global stage on which German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, and Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) were performed against a backdrop of philosophical and anthropological influences. Plays had an important role in educating the rising bourgeois class in morality, Sutherland argues, with fathers and daughters offered as exemplary moral figures in contrast to the depraved aristocracy. At the same time, black female protagonists in nontraditional dramas represent the boundaries of physical beauty and marriage eligibility while also complicating ideas of moral beauty embodied in the concept of the beautiful soul. Her book offers convincing evidence that the eighteenth-century German stage grappled with the representation of blackness during the Age of Goethe, even though the German states were neither colonial powers nor direct participants in the slave trade.
Shakespeare On The German Stage Volume 1 1586 1914
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Author : Simon Williams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-11
Shakespeare On The German Stage Volume 1 1586 1914 written by Simon Williams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-11 with Drama categories.
Professor Williams focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre, when Shakespeare's plays were first staged in Germany in a relatively complete form, and when they had a potent influence on the writings of German drama and dramatic criticism.
Music Theatre And The Holy Roman Empire
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Author : Austin Glatthorn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-07
Music Theatre And The Holy Roman Empire written by Austin Glatthorn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-07 with History categories.
Reveals how the Holy Roman Empire's cultural networks c. 1800 underpinned the transnational spread of music for the German-language stage.
German Classical Drama
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Author : F. J. Lamport
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990
German Classical Drama written by F. J. Lamport and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Drama categories.
This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.
Witnessing The Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars In German Central Europe
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Author : L. James
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Witnessing The Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars In German Central Europe written by L. James and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval.
Morality And Viennese Opera In The Age Of Mozart And Beethoven
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Author : Martin Nedbal
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Morality And Viennese Opera In The Age Of Mozart And Beethoven written by Martin Nedbal and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Music categories.
This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II’s reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.
A Serious Matter And True Joy
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Author : Margaret Eleanor Menninger
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-21
A Serious Matter And True Joy written by Margaret Eleanor Menninger and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-21 with History categories.
We tend to accept that German cities and states run their own cultural institutions (concert halls, theatres, museums). This book shows how this now “self-evident” fact became a reality in the course of the long nineteenth century.
Theatre In Europe Under German Occupation
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Author : Anselm Heinrich
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-07
Theatre In Europe Under German Occupation written by Anselm Heinrich and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with History categories.
The Second World War went beyond previous military conflicts. It was not only about specific geographical gains or economic goals, but also about the brutal and lasting reshaping of Europe as a whole. Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation explores the part that theatre played in the Nazi war effort. Using a case-study approach, it illustrates the crucial and heavily subsidised role of theatre as a cultural extension of the military machine, key to Nazi Germany’s total war doctrine. Covering theatres in Oslo, Riga, Lille, Lodz, Krakau, Warsaw, Prague, The Hague and Kiev, Anselm Heinrich looks at the history and context of their operation; the wider political, cultural and propagandistic implications in view of their function in wartime; and their legacies. Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation focuses for the first time on Nazi Germany’s attempts to control and shape the cultural sector in occupied territories, shedding new light on the importance of theatre for the regime’s military and political goals.