The Great Tradition And Its Legacy

by Cherlin, Michael; Filipowicz, Halina; Rudolph, Richard L.

• ISBN13: 9781571814036
• ISBN10: 1571814035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-20
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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 analyze the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface
by Richard L. Rudolph	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
DRAMATIC THEATER
Introduction: Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Halina Filipowicz	3	(16)
Part One: The Enlightenment and the "New Beginning"
1. "By and By We Shall Have an Enlightened Populace": Moral Optimism and the Fine Arts in Late-Eighteenth-Century Austria
Ernst Wangermann	19	(14)
2. Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama
Halina Filipowicz	33	(19)
3. Nestroy and His Naughty Children: A Plebeian Tradition in the Austrian Theater
Carl Weber	52	(10)
4. Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism
Harold B. Segel	62	(10)
5. Populism versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt's Austrian Productions of the 1920's
Michael Patterson	72	(13)
Part Two: Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater
6. Elfriede Jelinek's Nora Project; or, What Happens When Nora Meets the Capitalists
Christine Kiebuzinska	85	(12)
7. George Tabori's Return to the Danube, 1987-1999
Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer	97	(15)
8. Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz: Artists and Societies beyond the Scandal
Alfred Pfabigan	112	(9)
9. Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard's Eve of Retirement
Jeanette R. Malkin	121	(20)
MUSICAL THEATER
Introduction: Conflict and Crosscurrents in Viennese Music
Michael Cherlin	141	(12)
Part Three: The Emergence of the Classical Style
10. Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century
Sibylle Dahms	153	(7)
11. The Viennese Singspiel, Haydn, and Mozart
Eva Badura-Skoda	160	(19)
12. Displaying (Out)Rage: The Dilemma of Constancy in Mozart's Operas
Gretchen A. Wheelock	179	(48)
Part Four: Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
13. Karl Goldmark's Operas during the Directorship of Gustav Mahler
Peter Revers	227	(10)
14. A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court Opera: Alfred Roller and the Vienna Secession
Evan Baker	237	(9)
15. Schoenberg's Music for the Theater
Michael Cherlin	246	(13)
References	259	(12)
Index	271