Playing for stakes : German-language drama in social context
Modern drama is alive, or the duck inside the wolf, H. Lenz naturalism and melodrama - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Weber" (The Weavers), H.J. Schmidt expressionist melodrama and the search for new forms of expression, H. Steger Strindberg's return - "The Ghost Sonata" and Strindberg's influence on modern European theatre, R. Grimm moving pictures - photographs and photographic meaning in Karl Kraus's "The Last Days of Humanity", L. Lensing theatre as the conscience of society - Erwin Piscator's "Interim Achievement", B. Elling the new woman of the 20s - "Hoppla! Such is Life!" and "The Merry Vineyard", B.D. Wright myth, matriarchy and Maennerphantasie - rereading Grillparzer's "Libussa", A.K. Kuhn Johann Nestroy - the revolution on the stage, G.H. Weiss Arthur Schnitzler's "The Way to the Pond" - the dramatic summing up, D.G. Daviau the playwright as ideologue - Franz Xaver Kroetz's "Maria Magdalena", E. Neuse and Ralph Ley "Das geht net so weida" - Herbert Berger's "Nasty Plays", E. Schwarz Elfreide Jelinek's "Burtheater" - language as exorcism, G.W. Reinhardt.