„Ich schies den Hirsch im wilden Forst…”. On the significance of hunting on Martin Sperr’s „Hunting scenes from Bavaria” Cover Image

„Jelenia strzałem zwalam z nóg…”. O znaczeniu polowań w „Scenach myśliwskich z Dolnej Bawarii” Martina Sperra
„Ich schies den Hirsch im wilden Forst…”. On the significance of hunting on Martin Sperr’s „Hunting scenes from Bavaria”

Author(s): Zbigniew Feliszewski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Economy, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Environmental interactions, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Das neue Volksstück; exclusion; economic crisis; German hunting literature

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to read the early play of a German play wright Martin Sperr, from the perspective of hunting theory. In the play „Hunting scenes from Bavaria” of 1966, Martin Sperr shows the mechanisms of exclusion of a human being from the society. The play is set in a Bavarian village – a community on the threshold of economic, political and cultural changes, transforming from a production society into a consumer society. The economic crisis exaggerates the processes of exclusion, which culminates in the literal hunting for homosexual Abram. The article is an attempt to analyse the hunting artefact as a way to show the individual processes of exclusion from the community.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 233-243
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish