Theatre and Performance in Austria From Mozart to Jelinek

Edited by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson

Austrian Studies 4

Edinburgh University Press

8 November 1993  •  218pp

ISBN: 978-0-748604-36-4 (hardback) (out of print)

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The Austrian theatrical tradition encompasses a wide variety of types, from Mozart's light operas to the political drama of the present day. This volume describes the main features of Austrian theatre and performance, taking a close look at the works of its key writers. Beginning with Mozart, Grillparzer and Nestroy, it moves on to the feminist theatre of Elfriede Jelinek, the provocations of Peter Handke and the Graz avant-garde, and the satirical comedies of Vaclav Havel. It raises fundamental questions about the relationship between public performance and national identity, gender and sexuality, audience and spectacle, as well as problems of translation and reception. Encompassing music, theatre, politics and performance, this is a wide-ranging account of a thriving and defining feature of Austrian cultural identity.

Contents:

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The Land of the Piano: Music, Theatre and Performance in Vienna around 1800
Peter Branscombe
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The Sexual Politics of Mozart's Magic Flute and the Genesis of Viennese 'Charm'
John Milfull
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27
Beating the Bounds: Fantasy and Farce in Nestroy's Comedy
Louise Adey Huish
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39
Altenberg's African Spectacle: Ashantee in Context
Ian Foster
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61
Love's Labour's Lost: Translations of Schnitzler's Reigen
Konstanze Fliedl
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73
Hofmannsthal's 'Mythological' Opera Arabella
Srdan Bogosavljevic
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81
Friedrich Kiesler and Theatrical Modernism in Vienna
John Warren
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93
Ernst Weiss: The Novelist as Dramatist
Klaus-Peter Hinze
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102
Performance and Provocation in Graz, 1960-1966
Simon Ryan
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116
The Staging of History in Felix Mitterer's Die Kinder des Teufels
T. E. Bourke
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126
Jelinek's Ibsen: 'Noras' Past and Present
Allyson Fiddler
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139
Havel's Satirical Theatre
J. P. Stern
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Review Articles
153
Haydn Studies and the Mozart Bicentenary
Denis McCaldin
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158
Recent Nestroy Scholarship
W. E. Yates
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171
The Ideology of the Salzburg Festival
Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler
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178
Review of Anton Schindling and Walter Ziegler, Die Kaiser der Neuzeit 1519-1918: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Osterreich, Deutschland
Charles Ingrao
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179
Review of Waltraud Heindl, Gehorsame Rebellen: Biirokratie und Beamte in Osterreich, 1780 bis 1848
R. J. W. Evans
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180
Review of Edith Saurer, Strafie, Schmuggel, Lottospiel: Materielle Kultur und Staat in Niederbsterreich, Böhmen und Lombardo-Venetien im frühen 19. Jahrhundert
T. C. W. Blanning
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181
Review of Peter Branscombe, W. A. Mozart: 'Die Zauberflöte'
Tim Carter
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Review of John A. Rice, W. A. Mozart: 'La clemenza di Tito'
Tim Carter
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184
Review of Erich Wolfgang Partsch, Franz Schubert: Der Fortschrittliche?
Ewan West
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184
Review of Elizabeth Norman McKay, Schubert's Music for the Theatre
Ewan West
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186
Review of Hugo Aust, Peter Haida and Jürgen Hein, Volksstück
Peter Branscombe
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186
Review of Alfred Ziltener, Hanswursts lachende Erben
Peter Branscombe
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188
Review of Steven Beller, Herzl
Jacques Le Rider
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189
Review of Burkhard Spinnen, Schriftbilder: Studien zu einer Geschichte emblematischer Kurzprosa
Leo A. Lensing
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192
Review of Dierk Rodewald and Corinna Fiedler, Samuel Fischer and Hedwig Fischer, Briefwechsel mit Autoren
Konstanze Fliedl
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196
Review of Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Robert Musil, Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
Duncan Large
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196
Review of Hannah Hickman, Robert Musil and the Literary Landscape of his Time
Duncan Large
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196
Review of Claus Erhart, Der ästhetische Mensch bei Robert Musil
Duncan Large
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198
Review of Phillip H. Rhein, The Verbal and Visual Art of Alfred Kubin
R. S. Furness
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199
Review of Jura Soyfer, Sturmzeit: Briefe 1931-1939
Ian Huish
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199
Review of Gerhard Scheit, Theater und revolutionärer Humanismus
Ian Huish
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201
Review of Gerald Stieg, Frucht des Feuers: Canetti, Doderer,Kraus und der Justizpalastbrand
Jürgen Thoming
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203
Review of Jill Lewis, Fascism and the Working Class in Austria 1918-1934
Tim Kirk
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203
Review of Edith Prost, 'Die Partei hat mich nie enttäuscht‘: Österreichische Sozialdemokratinnen
Jill Lewis
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205
Review of Johann Holzner, Sigurd Paul Scheichl and Wolfgang Wiesmüller, Eine schwierige Heimkehr. Österreichische Literatur im Exil 1938-1945
J. M. Ritchie
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205
Review of Peter Muhr, Paul Feyerabend and Cornelia Wegeler, Philosophie, Psychoanalyse, Emigration
J. M. Ritchie
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207
Review of Malcolm Pines and Roy Wisbey, Translation in Transition: The Question of the 'Standard Edition'
Darius Gray Ornston
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210
Review of Günther Feuerstein, Visionäre Architektur: Wien 1958/1988
Iain Boyd Whyte
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210
Review of Peter Noever, Tradition und Experiment: Das Österreichische Museum fur Angewandte Kunst
Iain Boyd Whyte
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210
Review of John Zukowsky and Ian Wardropper, Austrian Architecture in the Nineties
Iain Boyd Whyte
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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Theatre and Performance in Austria From Mozart to Jelinek (= Austrian Studies, 4 (1993))

First footnote reference: 35 Theatre and Performance in Austria From Mozart to Jelinek, ed. by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson (= Austrian Studies, 4 (1993)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Timms and Robertson, p. 47.

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Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds). 1993. Theatre and Performance in Austria From Mozart to Jelinek (= Austrian Studies, 4)

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