Der performative Zauber der Sirenen? ADORNOS negative Dialektik und das deutschsprachige Gegenwartstheater
The Performative Magic of Sirens? ADORNO’S Negative Dialectics and German-speaking Contemporary Theater

Summary/Abstract: Why, in April 1969, did ADORNO, the philosopher of the student revolt, the advocate of the avant-garde from Schoenberg to Beckett, flee when he was faced with the performative actions of protesting students with naked breasts? The article discusses connections between ADORNO’S Dialectics of Enlightenment, Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory and the aesthetics of today’s performative and post-dramatic theatre. For ADORNO, theatre remained a place of art, and the revolution did not come to fruition in the per-formative denial of meaning, in the cruel reality of “sirens”, and in deconstruction, but in the work of art itself, that is supposed to represent the irreconcilable and thus to lead to reconciliation.

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