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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Gall
Event type:
online: Thematic proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
PS Lit (CZ)
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
In this comparative seminar we will study Polish and Czech theatre plays that were published/written after 1945. Beginning with the critique of Socialist Realism and developping a broad variety of highly innovative forms Polish and Czech theatre after the war has gained a worldwide reputation and made an important contribution to contemporary literature. We will focus the problem to what degree esthetic experiments are situated within a political and social context und might also be considered to be related to the attempt of authors to exert an influence on the public.
We will discuss works of the following writers (german translations are available):
Polish literature: Witold Gombrowicz, Tadeusz Rózewicz, Slawomir Mrozek, Zbigniew Herbert.
Czech literature: Milan Uhde, Ivan Klíma, Pavel Kohout, Václav Havel .
Recommended reading list:
- Asmuth, Bernhard. Einführung in die Dramenanalyse. Sammlung Metzler, Bd. 188. Ed. 3. Stuttgart 1990.
- Braun, Kazimierz. Teatr polski (1939–1989). Obszary wolnosci – obszary zniewolenia. Warszawa 1994
- Drewnowski, Tadeusz. Literatura polska 1944-1989. Próba scalenia. Obiegi, wzorce, style. Ed. 2. Kraków 2004.
- Esslin, Martin. The Field of Drama. How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen. London – New York 1987.
- Ders. The Theatre of the Absurd. Ed. 3. London 2001.
- Holý, Jirí. Geschichte der tschechischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wien 2003.
- Ders. Janácková, Jaroslava; Lehár, Jan; Stich, Alexandr. Ceská literatura od pocátku k dnešku. 2. doplnené vydání. Praha 2006.
- Müller, Péter P. Central European European Playwrights within and without the absurd: Václav Havel, Slawomir Mrozek, and István Örkény. Pécs 1996.
- Pfister, Manfred. Das Drama. Theorie und Analyse. Uni-Taschenbücher 580. Ed. 7. München 1997.
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