VOM MENSCHEN ZUR MARIONETTE - GERHART HAUPTMANNS PAZIFISTISCHES FESTSPIEL IN DEUTSCHEN REIMEN
FROM HUMAN TO MARIONETTE. GERHART HAUPTMANN´S PACIFISTIC FESTIVAL PLAYFESTSPIEL IN DEUTSCHEN REIMEN

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with Gerhart Hauptmann’s festival play Festspiel in deutschen Reimen (1913) regarding its importance and message in the political and cultural context of its time of origin. The play was a remittance work for the city Breslau on the occasion of the centennial exposition and celebration connected with the Prussian Wars of Liberation. The remitters expected from Hauptmann a patriotic play that would conform to the warmongering atmosphere shortly before the First World War. But Hauptmann undermined those expectations by showing in the play historical figures of the German history at the time of the Wars of Liberation as marionettes, who were embodied by actors.

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