Download or read book Carl Zuckmayer Criticism written by Hans Wagener and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with Bertolt Brecht and Gerhart Hauptmann, Carl Zuckmayer (1890-1977) was one of the most popular and significant German dramatists of the twentieth century. His folk play The Merry Vineyard (1925) marked the end of German expressionism; his comedy The Captain of Kopenick (1931), a scathing satire on German militarism, and his drama The Devil's General (1946), about a Nazi general and German resistance, were some of the most frequently performed plays in recent German theater history. During the Third Reich Zuckmayer's works were banned in Germany while their author lived as an exile in the United States, trying to survive as a farmer in Vermont. For that reason, Zuckmayer scholarship was off to a slow start. Wagener demonstrates that it received its main impetus from the United States where the majority of dissertations on Zuckmayer were written. He shows the development of scholarship from reviews to general assessments, from positivistic biographical fact finding to the New Criticism and finally to recent modes of critical assessment, including feminist criticism. Wagener draws particular attention to the role of the Carl Zuckmayer Society in critical discourse about this neglected author.
Download or read book Unrepentant Patriot written by Allan Mitchell and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Zuckmayers illustrious career as one of Central Europes most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. His plays were banned during the following twelve years, and he was forced to flee into exile, first in Austria and then in the United States. His return to Germany after the war was fraught with difficulty as he sought to find his place amid the destruction and dislocation of his native land. Zuckmayer finally settled in a remote village in the Swiss Alps, where he died in 1977. This book attempts to summarize and evaluate Carl Zuckmayers life and work. Part 1 is biographical, fleshing out his time as a schoolboy in Mainz, his military service during the First World War (during which he was severely wounded), his erratic ascent as a luminary in the world of European theater, his expatriate years of isolation on a farm in Vermont, and his efforts to reestablish a comfortable home and creative activity after his postwar return to Europe. Part 2 concentrates on Zuckmayers satirical plays and stage productions. After a few notable failures at the outset, he developed a remarkable talent for comic invention, thereby earning the distinction of being perhaps Europes most prestigious dramatic author for a time. While in Vermont, he enhanced his reputation by composing a disturbing account of German resistance to Nazism, The Devils General, frequently performed throughout both Western and Eastern Europe and subsequently made into an internationally acclaimed film. This analysis of Zuckmayers most salient writings is further buttressed by an examination of his extensive personal correspondence, now collected and available in the German Literature Archive in Marbach. There is no other study in the English language that presents such a concise yet comprehensive biography of Carl Zuckmayer as well as a review of his major works.
Download or read book Carl Zuckmayer written by Carl Zuckmayer and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Late Friendship written by Carl Zuckmayer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his circular letter to those friends who had sent greetings to him on the occasion of his 82nd birthday, Karl Barth penned the following: "Finally, in high old age a remarkable friendship has been my lot, namely, with poet Carl Zuckmayer. . . . What a man he is! He can be very serious and also very merry." The friendship between Barth and Zuckmayer lasted just under two years; yet, as one can tell from the letters included in this volume, it was a deep and meaningful relationship. Calling Barth a "great and respected friend," Zuckmayer wrote in a letter to Barth's assistant, "I received only kindness and warmth from him, and the stringent and postulating way in which he conducted dialogue always benefited and strengthened me." The letters, which show a personal side of the two men not often found in their respective works, cover a variety of subjects. As Zuckmayer says in his essay "Story of a Late Friendship" (included in this volume), "Everything concerning everyday life and world events and daily politics occupied him [Barth] and aroused his criticism and lively interest." The two also exchanged ideas and plans for projects--both teaching and writing--and evaluated each other's works and those of other authors. The volume includes a letter Zuckmayer wrote to Eberhard Busch after Barth's death, a poem Zuckmayer wrote and sent to Barth, and Barth's list of rules for older people in relation to younger.
Download or read book Theatre History Studies 2014 Vol 33 written by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest--theatre and war.
Download or read book Criticism of the Weberian Bureaucracy written by Gerrit B. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Critical Reception of Carl Zuckmayer s Postwar Dramas written by Diane Gail Voge and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 written by William Grange and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of this period in German literature is told through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a comprehensive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on poetry, novels, historical narrative, philosophical musings, drama, and the exceptional writers who emerged and shaped German literature over the centuries.
Download or read book Carl Zuckmayer written by Siegfried Mews and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour written by Stephen Brockmann and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'zero hour' of the title was 1945, when Germany had to confront total devastation, the crimes of Nazism, the onset of the Cold War, & the division of the country. It was a time of intense intellectual debate, here reviewed through the mediums of literature & literary discourse.
Download or read book Staging Holocaust Resistance written by Gene A. Plunka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature written by William Grange and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to 'dealing with the German past.' There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, while some find them funny or even worth celebrating. German postwar literature has, in the minds of some observers, developed a kind of split personality. In view of the traumatic monstrosities of the previous century that development may seem logical to some. The Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to modern literature produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries. This volume covers an extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called 'zero hour' for German literature and proceeds into the 21st century, concluding in 2008. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on writers, such as Nobel Prize-winners Heinrich Bsll, GYnter Grass, Elias Canetti, Elfriede Jelinek, and W. G. Sebald. There are also entries on individual works, genres, movements, literary styles, and forms.
Download or read book Carl Zuckmayer written by Ian C. Loram and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Awareness in the Folk Plays of Carl Zuckmayer 1925 1931 written by Robert Kafka Lehrer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dramatic Conflict and Historical Reality in Carl Zuckmayer s Hauptmann Von K penick written by Craig Odell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Individualism in the Deutsche Dramen of Carl Zuckmayer written by Matthew Graham and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landmarks in the German Novel written by Peter Hutchinson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine essays in this volume deal with major achievements in the German novel since 1959. They range from the very well known, such as Brussig's Helden wie wir, an extravagant treatment of life under the Stasi and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the much more recondite, such as Hubert Fichte's Detlevs Imitationen «Grünspan», one of the first, and most important, products of the abolition of the discrimination against gays in 1969. What is most surprising about this collection is that, in contrast to the majority of successful novels written in German before 1959, only one of these is by a clearly 'West' German author: Hubert Fichte. There is, by contrast, a surprising number who have their roots in the GDR (Plenzdorf, Wolf, Brussig, Schulze), or in Austria (Bachmann, Bernhard). This is also a period in which women writers emerge powerfully (Bachmann, Wolf, and Özdamar). Virtually all these novels aroused controversy in some quarters at the time of their publication, often for their treatment of semi-taboo, or at least uncomfortable, subject-matter. These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.
