Religion in Contemporary German Drama
Subtitle: Botho Strauss, George Tabori, Werner Fritsch, and Lukas Bärfuss
By: Sinéad Crowe
Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rochester, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781571135490
Subjects: German drama; Theater; Religion in literature; Religious aspects; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Definitions and Themes; title: The Relationship between Theater and Religion; title: Religion in Modern European Theater and Drama; title: "No One Wants to Get to God Anymore"? Botho Strauss's Grosse und Klein and Die eine und die andere; title: Theological Farce: George Tabori's Mein Kampf; title: "The Last Refuge for Metaphysics": Werner Fritsch's Theater Theory; title: "The Feeling of Faith": Fritsch's Wondreber Totentanz and Aller Seelen; title: Belief and Unbelief in the Twenty-first Century: Lukas Bärfuss's Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen).