No Man's Land
eBook - ePub

No Man's Land

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

No Man's Land

About this book

The political events of "annus mirabilis" 1989 marked a rare turning point in world history, but the significance of the year for German literary history is unique. As the 40-year-old German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, so too did the special circumstances which had fostered a literature separate from and in competition with that of the Federal Republic of Germany. A new period of literary history was delimited almost overnight: Germany Democratic Republic literature now was something to be examined as a whole, cultural movement. At the same time, the literary traditions of the German Democratic Republic have continued to influence the contemporary cultural scene, often in ways that are only gradually becoming clear.
The essays, memoirs, and plays collected in this special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review represent an early attempt to assess and reassess one of the German Democratic Republic's richest cultural domains: its theatre. Contributors include David W. Robinson, C

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
eBook ISBN
9781135304652
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Introduction
  5. The Activist Legacy of Theater in the German Democratic Republic
  6. From Trial to Condemnation: The Debate over Brecht/Dessau’s 1951 Opera Lucullus
  7. Periods of Precarious Adjustment: Some Notes on the Theater’s Situation at the Beginning and after the End of the Socialist German State
  8. Discursive Contradictions: Questions About Heiner Müller’s “Autobiography”
  9. “Only Limited Utopias are Realizable”: On a Motif in the Plays of Peter Hacks
  10. “Not Peasant Stew! Real Theater for the People!”—Walfriede Schmitt Talks about East German Theater
  11. Christoph Hein: “Engagement” in the German Democratic Republic
  12. Christoph Hein between Ideologies, or, Where Do the Knights of the Round Table Go after Camelot Falls?
  13. The Knights of the Round Table: A Comedy
  14. Introduction to Jochen Berg’s Strangers in the Night
  15. Strangers in the Night
  16. The Poets and the Power: Heiner MĂźller, Christa Wolf, and the German Literaturstreit
  17. Viewer Beware: Reception of East German Theatre
  18. Towards German Unity: Performance within the Threshold
  19. Iphigenia, King Arthur, and the East German State after Unification
  20. A Review of Theatre Journal special issue: ‘Theatre After the F/Wall’
  21. Notes on Contributors
  22. CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW