Franz Xaver Kroetz
Subtitle: the construction of a political aesthetic
By: Michelle Mattson.
Publisher: Berg; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Kroetz, Franz Xaver, 1946-  -- Aesthetics.; Kroetz, Franz Xaver, 1946-  -- Political and social views.
Description: Franz Xaver Kroetz's occupations ranged from banana-cutter to hospital orderly, fledgling actor and, more significantly, Germany's most popular and contemporary dramatist of the seventies and early eighties. This invaluable study, which situates Kroetz's aesthetics in a political context, focuses on four plays that mark crisis points in his development of a political aesthetic. The breaks in otherwise very successful aesthetic models occur as Kroetz responds to changing social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.