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Dramacontemporary: Germany
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Dramacontemporary: Germany Hardcover - 1996

by Carl Weber (Editor)


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Appearing after the reunification of the two Germanys, DramaContemporary: Germany offers a politically charged view of German drama in the years immediately preceding and just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The volume includes plays by the internationally renowned authors Heiner Mller, Botho Strauss, and George Tabori, as well as works by other German-language authors who deserve a wider audience, among them Georg Seidel of the former East Germany and Elfriede Jelinek of Austria.

The spectrum of subjects and styles represents the great number of new plays that have premiered in German theaters between 1985 and 1995. In the best German dramatic tradition, these plays range from poetic, highly imagistic work to realism and melodrama, and to virtuosic wordplay. They are often outspoken in criticism of contemporary reality and the German past.

Heiner Mller's "Mommsen's Block" was one of the first plays written after the historic changes in Germany to take as its theme the political and economic consequences of unification. "The Beautiful Stranger," by Klaus Pohl, offers an uncompromising view of the aggressive violence and brutality directed at foreigners in Germany. George Tabori, in "Mein Kampf," situates the young Hitler in a Vienna flophouse. Elfriede Jelinek's "Totenauberg" is a satirical treatment of Martin Heidegger's crypto-fascist theories and the relationship between Hannah Arendt and the philosopher which is now the subject of an international controversy.

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During the ten years between 1985 and 1995, the German people witnessed the most momentous changes in their history since the end of World War II.

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  • Title Dramacontemporary: Germany
  • Author Carl Weber (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date June 28, 1996
  • ISBN 9780801852794 / 080185279X
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.2 x 1.09 in (23.44 x 15.75 x 2.77 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95041870
  • Dewey Decimal Code 832.914
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