Menshchikova, M. K. “KÜNSTLERDRAMA” IN GERMAN LITERATURE OF 30–70th OF XIX CENTURY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 1 (178). P. 30–34. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.266


Literary studies

“KÜNSTLERDRAMA” IN GERMAN LITERATURE OF 30–70th OF XIX CENTURY

Menshchikova
M. K. 		Lobachevsky State University
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German literature of XIX century
“drama of artist” (“Künstlerdrama”)		 Summary: On the basis of the works of German literature of XIX century the article explores the specificity of the genre elements of “drama of artist” (Künstlerdrama). It is noted that the specificity of the conflict, plot and images is formed according to historical and political events of the period in question. The paper underlines the co-relation between “Künstlerdrama” and historical drama as regards the reconstruction of the “private” historical event e.g. the fragment of life of the real historical person. The author of the paper address to the works of the following German and Austrian writers of 30–70 of XIX century: G. Büchner, C.D. Grabbe, F. Hebbel, K. Gutzkow, R. Wagner, H. Laube, F. Grillparzer, K. Immermann, F. Halm, K. von Holtei. The author of the paper concludes that 1) German “Künstlerdrama” of the 30–70th of the XIX century reflects political, ideological and aesthetical aspects at multiple levels of stylistic harmony; 2) the selection of the historical material doesn’t restrict to the definite era that underlines the archetypical nature of the genius, but intensifications of the interest to the images of the German pioneers of literature should be noted; 3) the “punctum saliens” of the drama is the key moment of the development of the artist or some kind of accident in his/her life (in case of Petrarca of K. Immermann it is the meeting of Laura, in case of Schiller of H. Laube it is the escape from Schtutgard and the staging of “Die Räuber”); 4) the correlation of the terms “art” and “world” is worked out in three ways: political (the artist and the power), social (the artist and the society, the artist and daily routine) and amatorial. Finally “Künstlerdrama” always stands on the aesthetical basis that are author’s conception on the creativity and literary polemics.



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