"Alle raus!" - von rechtspopulistischen Feind(zerr)bildern: ein Vergleich der Bremer, Dresdner und Potsdamer Inszenierung nach Jaroslav Rudišs Roman Nationalstraße

• Authors: Julia Häußermann

Title variants

EN

'Everyone out!' - on right-wing populist (distorted) images of the enemy: a comparison of stagings of Jaroslav Rudiš's novel Nationalstraße in Bremen, Dresden, and Potsdam

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The novel Nationalstraße (Czech original: Národní třída) written by Jaroslav Rudiš has been staged in German by Theater Bremen, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, and Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. Vandam, the main character of the novel, has his own perception of the antagonists, which can be interpreted as right-wing populist. This article analyses each scene of the three aforementioned stagings available through video recordings, focusing on the constructions of Vandam's enemies – from the perspectives of Parody and Audience. The article aspires to offer a multidisciplinary approach to interpretation of the present-day issues raised in the performances; hence sociological and linguistic perspectives as well as cultural, political, and theatre studies approaches are applied in the analysis.

Keywords

EN

image of an enemy; right-wing populism; racism; National Avenue; Jaroslav Rudiš; parody; audience

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: 96-115
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Julia Häußermann

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