VIOLENCE IN YOUTH ENVIRONMENT AS A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON (BASED ON GERMAN-LANGUAGE DRAMATURGY OF THE 2010S)
Authors:   State Institution ", Yuhan Nataliia ,   Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University",   , Ukraine
Published: December 2023

The topic of violence and aggression is extremely relevant in modern society. It provokes the scientific reflection of scholars and practitioners in various fields (political scientists, psychologists, philosophers, cultural scientists, sociologists, philologists, theater experts) and it finds vivid reflection in modern drama. The purpose of this work is to study the author's interpretations of the causes and consequences of violence in the youth environment based on German-language dramatic works of the 2010s. The resolution of this research task determines the logic of presenting the material in this part of the collaborative monograph. We describe the socio-psychological basis of violence from the perspectives of social psychology, philosophy, sociology, political science, etc. The peculiarities of socio-psychological causes and consequences of youth aggression and violence conceptually substantiated by playwrights in artistic texts are investigated. The research methodology is based on an interdisciplinary approach and literary methods, including a holistic analysis of a literary work, descriptive, systemic-analytical, hermeneutic, receptive methods, the method of semantic interpretation, feminist, and multicultural approaches to the study of the text. The results of the researchshow that the problem of violence in German-language drama of the 2010s received an original author's artistic interpretation, based on a deep study of the socio-psychological foundations of such deviant behavior among young people. It is considered by modern playwrights in different aspects: the uncontrolled aggression of a teenage murderer in a school shooting situation, a robbery attack carried out by teenagers from disadvantaged families; the abuse and murder of a disabled young man by skinheads and neo-Nazis; violence against women based on national cultural differences and stereotypes in a multicultural environment; school bullying and cyberbullying; partner's sexual aggression and family violence. Modern playwrights look for the basis of antisocial behavior not only in society and in the family, but also in collective memory and national archetypes. Representatives of postmodernism and the dramaturgy of "new realism" explore the theme of violence in the genres of documentary (verbatim), psychological drama, turn to the traditions of experimental, "post-dramatic", "station" theaters, "theater in a classroom", combining in dramatic texts the realism of the image with bright conventionality. Practical implications. Materials and conclusions can be the basis of lecture courses and textbooks on the history of modern German-language literature, as well as can be used in psycho-corrective and psychological-prophylactic work with adolescents and young people. The value/originality of this work lies in the fact that it has a scientific novelty: in modern literary studies, until now, no attempt has been made to comprehensively and systematically (in an interdisciplinary context) analyze the problem of violence in German-language drama of the 2010s.