Autoreflexivität in Kehlmanns Dramen Geister in Princeton und Die Reise der Verlorenen

• Authors: Nikola Mizerová

Title variants

EN

Autoreflexivity in Kehlmann's plays Ghosts in Princeton and The Journey of the Lost

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The article investigates the previously unresearched work of Daniel Kehlmann. Kehlmann, a renowned contemporary novelist, has written only four plays, making him a novice in the area of drama. Until now, his dramatic endeavours have been rather overlooked by the researchers in theatre studies; yet, his plays fit in the paradigm of the contemporary theatre, for which G. Poschmann suggests the term 'critical use of dramatic form'. This article focuses on Kehlmann's plays Ghosts in Princeton and The Journey of the Lost. Such thematic focus is explained by the fact that the aforementioned plays differ from the rest of Kehlman's dramatic work by the critical use of historical subject matter, thus posing as an organic whole.

Keywords

EN

Daniel Kehlmann; dramatic work of Daniel Kehlmann; contemporary German-language theatre; critical use of dramatic form; minimalism

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 15-28
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Nikola Mizerová

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic