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Religion in Contemporary German Drama - Botho Strauss, George Tabori, Werner Fritsch, and Lukas Barfuss (Hardcover, New)
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Religion in Contemporary German Drama - Botho Strauss, George Tabori, Werner Fritsch, and Lukas Barfuss (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Investigates German religious drama since the 1970s, asking the
question whether it develops religious themes or only exploits
religious motifs, and exploring how it reflects the changing place
of religion and spirituality in theworld. Critics often claim that
the twenty-first century has seen a sudden "return" of religion to
the German stage. But although drama scholarship has largely
focused on politics, postmodernity, gender, ethnicity, and
"postdramatic" performance, religious themes, forms, and motifs
have been a topic and a source of inspiration for German dramatists
for several decades, as this study shows. Focusing on works by four
major dramatists - Botho Strauss, George Tabori,Werner Fritsch, and
Lukas Barfuss - this book examines how, why, and to what effect
religion is invoked in German drama since the late 1970s. It asks
whether contemporary German drama succeeds in developing religious
insights or is at most quasi-religious, exploiting religious signs
for aesthetic, theatrical, or dramaturgical ends. It considers the
performative and historical intersections between drama and
religion, contextualizing the playwrights' treatments of religion
by exploring how they lean on or repudiate the traditions of modern
European drama, especially that of Strindberg, the Expressionists,
Artaud, Grotowski, and Beckett. It also draws on the sociology,
anthropology,and psychology of religion, exploring how these works
reflect the changing place of religion and spirituality in the
world, from secularization to the "alternative" modes of
religiosity that have proliferated in Western society since the
1960s. Sinead Crowe is a Teaching Assistant at the University of
Limerick, Ireland.
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