Fuchs, Anne. Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-263
Author(s):  
Simone Pfleger
Keyword(s):  
German Culture

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Keyword(s):  
Central Position ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
German Culture ◽  
Ancient Athens

The book concludes with an epilogue entitled ‘The Return of Dionysus. From Festive Performances to Global Spectacle’. It very briefly retraces the exchange of productions of Greek tragedies between Germany and other countries and ends with the role played by productions of Greek tragedies today, at German as well as international theatre festivals, thus linking them back to the most important festival in ancient Athens, the Great Dionysia. After explaining how such festivals in Germany reassert the central position held by theatre in German culture, the epilogue ends with a short discussion of Jan Fabre’s twenty-four-hour performance Mount Olympus—to Glorify the Cult of Tragedy (Berliner Festspiele, June 2015) as an allegory of and a reflection on Greek tragedy’s endurance on the German stage.

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