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Baudelaires «Les Phares» und Nietzsches Gedicht «Das Feuerzeichen» aus dem Zyklus «Dithyramben des Dionysos»: [Baudelaire’s «The Beacons» and Nietzsche’s Poem «The Fire Signal» from the Cycle «Dithyrambs of Dionysus»]
Full text linkThis essay reflects on the aesthetic and rhetorical strategies used by Nietzsche and Baudelaire in two poems, which at first glance scarcely show any resemblance. The poems are Baudelaire’s Les Phares and Nietzsche’s Feuerzeichen from the late Dithyramben. In both cases the central image of the Lighthouse and the Symbol of Light refer to the difficult relationship of the “Great Man” to the crowd; but they are also linked to the idea that “Great Men” follow their destiny of loneliness and are like stars, whose light will not be seen by others until after their death
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No full textStudia theodisca, Vol 24 (2017) - Cover and Introductory Page
Aus dem «Dorfe» in den «Stürmischen Morgen». Zu zwei Liedern aus Wilhelm Müllers und Franz Schuberts «Die Winterreise»
Full text linkDie Winterreise, written by the romantic author Wilhelm Müller and set to music by Franz Schubert, is one of the most important poem cycles of German tradition. Since the second half of the 20th century these texts have been taken out of their context and more and more politically interpreted, that is ideologically instrumentalized. That this leads to misinterpretations is demonstrated with reference to the poems Im Dorfe and Der stürmische Morgen. Here we have to do, not with political beacons, but with the aesthetic realization of a pessimism that influenced significantly the philosophy and literature of the early 19th century
Der Dichter als Idiot – Zur Poetik des Außenseiters in Botho Strauß’ «Lichter des Toren»
Full text linkBeing an idiot isn’t that bad. Although persons who are called idiots live a life on the margins of society, they possess a special gift of insight and sensitivity, as well as a knowledge of hidden truths and experiences. Strauß revalues the figure of the idiot by approximating it to that of the poet. Both of them use alternative cognitive processes, a vicinity to transcendence and secret lore which is inherent to the solitude they have to bear for their alternative existence. In Lichter des Toren Strauß carries to extremes his thoughts on the figure of the idiot, exposes the roots of the word and introduces a personal poetics of the idiot
Wissensbearbeitung im Produktionsprozess des zeitgenössischen Dokumentartheaters
Full text linkDocumentary theatre aims to portray truth or authenticity. It tries to produce knowledge, though it is rather difficult to assert the authenticity of this knowledge because the sources imply a great deal of subjectivity. It is a medium that asks questions about how to pass on knowledge not only through the body and the voice, but also through the meeting of multiple people and the exchange between the stage and the audience. This study will analyse, through several contemporary documentary plays, how knowledge, and of what kind, can be produced on stage and if there is a particular aesthetics for this production
Gödelmann’s Faustus (1591). Concerning the Fluidity of the Early Transmission of the Adventures of Faustus in Germany
Full text linkThis article is the first to treat systematically the brief, contemporary references to the Fauststoff in the treatise De magis, veneficis et lamiis (1591) by Johann Georg Gödelmann, best known as a witchcraft theorist. He treats Johann Faustus as a “praedestigiator”, a black magician and trickster who belongs in the company of Simon Magus. Comparing Gödelmann’s versions of the adventures of Faustus with those in the chapbook, Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587), published in the same city (Frankfurt am Main), one sees that these adventures were in flux in the late sixteenth century
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No full textStudia theodisca, Vol 23 (2016) - Cover and Introductory Page
Community of Faithful Dissidents. Representations of Anabaptism in Swiss Historical Fiction by Walter Laedrach and Katharina Zimmermann
Full text linkThe twentieth-century Swiss local authors Walter Laedrach and Katharina Zimmermann rediscovered the dark chapter of Swiss history documenting the torture and execution of non-resistant and non-conformist Christians in the Bernese Oberland. The following analysis of the literary representation of these pacifist Anabaptists will identify historiographical sources that served as inspiration to the authors and the contributions their historical novels make in Switzerland’s process of coming to terms with its tragic past