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  title info:
    title: Tragedy's endurance
    sub title: performances of Greek tragedies and cultural identity in Germany since 1800
  name:
    name part: Fischer-Lichte, Erika
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xix, 398 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
  abstract: The book is devoted to the remarkable phenomenon of Greek tragedy's endurance on German stages during the last 200 years. It examines how performances of Greek tragedies since 1800 contributed to the emergence, stabilization, and transformation of the German Bildungsbürgertum's (educated middle class) cultural identity. Its focus lies on performances that either introduced a new theatre aesthetics or a new image of ancient Greece, or both. Key here are the truly transformative moments as well as the cultural dynamics involved. In this context, the overall political situation of the 200 years between the French Revolution and the peaceful revolution of 1989 in the German Democratic Republic plays a central role. It resulted in the reunification of the two German states, both founded in 1949 in the aftermath of the Second World War and at the beginning of the cold war. What was/is the purpose and role of performances of Greek tragedies in such a political climate? Did they help to bring about changes or did they result from changes that were already taking place? Were the performances seen to be welcoming, opposing, or even negating these changes? This study supplies answers to these questions by shedding some light on the underexplored relationship between the Philhellenism and the theatromania of the German Bildungsbürgertum, which has been brought into a sharper focus in performances of ancient Greek tragedies since the beginning of the nineteenth century. In short, it attempts to understand tragedy's endurance.
  table of contents: Introduction : philhellenism and theatromania -- 1. Only with beauty man shall play : Goethe's production of Ion in Weimer (1802) -- 2. After the institionalization of bildung : the potsdam Antigone of 1841 -- 3. Wagner's gesamtkunstwerk and Nietzsche's vision of ancient Greek theatre -- 4. A culture in crisis : Max Reinhardt's productions of Greek tragedies (1903-1919) -- 5. Hailing a racial kinship : performances of Greek tragedies during the Third Reich -- 6. Of guilt and archetypes : post-war productions of Greek tragedies in the 1940s and 1950s -- 7. Inventing new forms of political theatre -- 8. On the origins of theatre and its link to the past : the Schaubühne's antiquity projects of 1974 and 1980 -- 9. Choric theatre : between tragic experience and participatory democracy.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Erika Fischer-Lichte.
  note: This edition previously issued in print.
  note: Legacy 2019 UoY
  note: NBK-R 9999 UKUoY
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama (Tragedy)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama (Tragedy)
    topic: Appreciation
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Greek influences
  subject:
    topic: Tragédie grecque
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Tragédie grecque
    topic: Appréciation
    geographic: Allemagne
  subject:
    topic: Théâtre
    geographic: Allemagne
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    geographic: Allemagne
    topic: Civilisation
    topic: Influence grecque
  subject:
    topic: DRAMA
    topic: Ancient, Classical & Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Greek influences
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama (Tragedy)
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama (Tragedy)
    topic: Appreciation
  subject:
    topic: Theater
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Aufführung
  subject:
    topic: Griechisch
  subject:
    topic: Rezeption
  subject:
    topic: Tragödie
  subject:
    geographic: Deutschland
  classification: PA3131 .F45 2017eb
  classification: 882.0109
  classification: FB 1915
  classification: FE 4451
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  record info:
    record content source: U3W
    record creation date: 170324
    record change date: 20260319164528.8
    record identifier: in00005715493
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng