The Great Tradition and Its Legacy

The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-57181-173-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherlin, Michael

Filipowicz, Halina

Rudolph, Richard L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Richard L. Rudolph

Notes on Contributors

DRAMATIC THEATER

Introduction: Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe Halina Filipowicz 3

Part I: The Enlightenment and the “New Beginning”

Chapter 1. “By and By We Shall Have an Enlightened Populace”: Moral Optimism and the Fine Arts in Late-Eighteenth-Century Austria

Ernst Wangermann

Chapter 2. Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama

Halina Filipowicz

Chapter 3. Nestroy and His Naughty Children: A Plebeian Tradition in the Austrian Theater

Carl Weber

Chapter 4. Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism

Harold B. Segel

Chapter 5. Populism versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt’s Austrian Productions of the 1920s

Michael Patterson

Part Two: Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater

Chapter 6. Elfriede Jelinek’s Nora Project; or, What Happens When Nora Meets the Capitalists

Christine Kiebuzinska

Chapter 7. George Tabori’s Return to the Danube, 1987–1999

Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer

Chapter 8. Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz: Artists and Societies beyond the Scandal

Alfred Pfabigan

Chapter 9. Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard’s Eve of Retirement

Jeanette R. Malkin

MUSICAL THEATER

Introduction: Conflict and Crosscurrents in Viennese Music

Michael Cherlin

Part III: The Emergence of the Classical Style

Chapter 10. Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century

Sibylle Dahms

Chapter 11. The Viennese Singspiel, Haydn, and Mozart

Eva Badura-Skoda

Chapter 12. Displaying (Out)Rage: The Dilemma of Constancy in Mozart’s Operas

Gretchen A. Wheelock

Part IV: Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 13. Karl Goldmark’s Operas during the Directorship of Gustav Mahler

Peter Revers

Chapter 14. A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court Opera: Alfred Roller and the Vienna Secession

Evan Baker

Chapter 15. Schoenberg’s Music for the Theater

Michael Cherlin

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolph, Richard L.
Richard L. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota.

Filipowicz, Halina
Halina Filipowicz is Professor of Slavic Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Cherlin, Michael
Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota.

Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota.