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Title

Theatre and performance in Austria : from Mozart to Jelinek / edited by Ritchie Robertson and Edward Timms.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors

• Robertson, Ritchie.
• Timms, Edward

Description

xi, 218; 24 cm.

Summary

"This volume analyses the Austrian tradition of theatre and performance, from the musical culture of Haydn's Vienna to the Salzburg Festival and the political theatre of the present day. The topics discussed include Mozart's The Magic Flute, the comedies of Nestroy: Hofmannsthal's Arabella, Schnitzler's Reigen, the political dramas of Ernst Weiss and Felix Mitterer, the feminist theatre of Elfriede Jelinek, the satirical comedies of Vaclav Havel, and the provocations of Peter Handke and the Graz avant-garde. The book raises fundamental questions about the relationship between tradition and innovation, gender and sexuality, and audience and spectacle, as well as considering the problems of translation and reception. Through examining the interactions between public performance and national identity, it provides a wide-ranging account of one of the defining features of Austrian culture." --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Austrian studies ; 4

Uniform Title

Austrian studies 4.

Subject

• Theater > Austria > History
• Austrian drama > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Land of the Piano: Music, Theatre and Performance in Vienna around 1800 / Peter Branscombe -- Sexual Politics of Mozart's Magic Flute and the Genesis of Viennese 'Charm' / John Milfull -- Beating the Bounds: Fantasy and Farce in Nestroy's Comedy / Louise Adey Huish -- Altenberg's African Spectacle: Ashantee in Context / Ian Foster -- Love's Labour's Lost: Translations of Schnitzler's Reigen / Konstanze Fliedl -- Hofmannsthal's 'Mythological' Opera Arabella / Srdan Bogosavljevic -- Friedrich Kiesler and Theatrical Modernism in Vienna / John Warren -- Ernst Weiss: The Novelist as Dramatist / Klaus-Peter Hinze -- Performance and Provocation in Graz, 1960-1966 / Simon Ryan -- Staging of History in Felix Mitterer's Die Kinder des Teufels / T. E. Bourke -- Jelinek's Ibsen: 'Noras' Past and Present / Allyson Fiddler -- Havel's Satirical Theatre / J. P. Stern -- Haydn Studies and the Mozart Bicentenary / Denis McCaldin -- Recent Nestroy Scholarship / W. E. Yates -- Ideology of the Salzburg Festival / Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler -- Anton Schindling and Walter Ziegler (eds), Die Kaiser der Neuzeit 1519-1918: Heiliges Romisches Reich, Osterreich, Deutschland / Charles Ingrao -- Waltraud Heindl, Gehorsame Rebellen: Burokratie und Beamte in Osterreich, 1780 bis 1848 / R. J. W. Evans -- Edith Saurer, Strasse, Schmuggel, Lottospiel: Materielle Kultur und Staat in Niederosterreich, Bohmen und Lombardo-Venetien in fruhen 19. Jahrhundert / T. C. W. Blanning -- Peter Branscombe, W. A. Mozart: 'Die Zauberflote'; John A. Rice, W. A. Mozart: 'La clemenza di Tito' / Tim Carter -- Erich Wolfgang Partsch (ed.), Franz Schubert: Der Fortschrittliche?; Elizabeth Norman McKay, Schubert's Music for the Theatre / Ewan West -- Hugo Aust, Peter Haida and Jurgen Hein, Volksstuck; Alfred Ziltener, Hanswursts lachende Erben / Peter Branscombe -- Steven Beller, Herzl / Jacques Le Rider -- Burkhard Spinnen, Schriftbilder: Studien zu einer Geschichte emblematischer Kurzprosa / Leo A. Lensing -- Samuel Fischer and Hedwig Fischer, Briefwechsel mit Autoren, ed. Dierk Rodewald and Corinna Fiedler / Konstanze Fliedl -- Robert Musil, Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses, ed. and tr. Burton Pike and David S. Luft; Hannah Hickman (ed.), Robert Musil and the Literary Landscape of his Time; Claus Erhart, Der asthetische Mensch bei Robert Musil / Duncan Large -- Phillip H. Rhein, The Verbal and Visual Art of Alfred Kubin / R. S. Furness -- Jura Soyfer, Sturmzeit: Briefe 1931-1939; Gerhard Scheit, Theater und revolutionarer Humanismus / Ian Huish -- Gerald Stieg, Frucht des Feuers: Canetti, Doderer, Kraus und der Justizpalastbrand / Jurgen Thoming -- Jill Lewis, Fascism and the Working Class in Austria 1918-1934 / Tim Kirk -- Edith Prost (ed.), 'Die Partei hat mich nie enttauscht ...': Osterreichische Sozialdemokratinnen / Jill Lewis -- Johann Holzner, Sigurd Paul Scheichl and Wolfgang Wiesmuller (eds), Eine schwierige Heimkehr. Osterreichische Literatur im Exil 1938-1945; Peter Muhr, Paul Feyerabend and Cornelia Wegeler (eds), Philosophie, Psychoanalyse, Emigration / J. M. Ritchie -- Malcolm Pines and Roy Wisbey (eds), Translation in Transition: The Question of the 'Standard Edition' / Darius Gray Ornston -- Gunther Feuerstein, Visionare Architektur: Wien 1958/1988; Peter Noever (ed.), Tradition und Experiment: Das Osterreichische Museum fur Angewandte Kunst; John Zukowsky and Ian Wardropper, Austrian Architecture in the Nineties / Iain Boyd Whyte.

ISBN

0748604367

OCLC

29546564

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library