Das expressionistische Drama: Carl Sternheim-Georg Kaiser

Erlis Glass; Manfred Durzak

doi:10.2307/1429507

German Expressionist Drama: Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser

The Modern Language Review ◽

10.2307/3728842 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 81 (1) ◽

pp. 257

Author(s):

Lesley Sharpe ◽

Renate Benson

Keyword(s):

Georg Kaiser ◽

Ernst Toller

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Romanische Sprachgeschichte

10.36198/9783838537177 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Georg A. Kaiser

Keyword(s):

Georg Kaiser

Warum haben sich aus Latein die Sprachen Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch entwickelt? Und wie verlief dieser Prozess? Das sind wichtige Fragen für Studenten der Romanistik und ihrer Einzelphilologien. Georg Kaiser beantwortet sie – übersichtlich und klar. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Entwicklung der romanischen Sprachen aus dem Vulgärlateinischen. Außerdem wird die Verbreitung dieser Sprachen in der ganzen Welt erklärt. Die Sprachgeschichte von Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch wird anschaulich und fundiert erläutert. Lateinkenntnisse müssen die Leser aber nicht mitbringen.

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German Letters: The Correspondence of Georg Kaiser and of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem as Opposing Mirrors of Inner and Outer Reality

World Literature Today ◽

10.2307/40146402 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 242

Author(s):

Hans J. Fabian

Keyword(s):

Walter Benjamin ◽

Georg Kaiser

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Georg Kaiser: Die Rückkehr zum Menschen

Literatur als Arbeit am Menschen ◽

10.1007/978-3-662-63000-6_5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 85-131

Author(s):

Tobias Thanisch

Keyword(s):

Georg Kaiser

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GEORGE KAISER’S WRITING IN THE RECEPTION OF YURI KLEN

Polish Studies of Kyiv ◽

10.17721/psk.2019.35.201-206 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 201-206

Author(s):

Nataliia Lazirko

Keyword(s):

World View ◽

Scientific Work ◽

Literary Critic ◽

Structural Formulas ◽

History Of ◽

Approaches To Study ◽

General Action ◽

Georg Kaiser ◽

Original Interpretation ◽

The Given

The given article deals with Klen’s research of the German dramatist George Kaiser. The main parameters of artistic universe of this author are presented in the article. There are also outlined the methodological strategies of research the German dramatist’s creativity by Yuri Klen – a well-known Ukrainian literary critic. Georg Kaiser is one of the brightest representatives of theatrical and literary expressionism. His plays are the unique phenomenon in the 20th century drama. His expressionism appeared to be the special one and the global and scope of plots allowed scientists to call G. Kaiser a «new myth creator». Among world scientists, who comprehended the features of author manner of this sign artist for history of world drama, a main place belongs to the Ukrainian literary critic – Yuri Klen. In his scientific work there is the article «George Kaiser», which an author compositionally divides into seven parts. Its pre-condition is an original metaphorical lineation (vivid registration of which is adopted from astronomy), structural-semiotics assertion that every writer creation has a basic idea or favourite main image, that can be found in many writings of the author. However, in the Ukrainian literary critic’s opinion, it is not impossible to say it on the first sight about George of Kaiser because every work of this author has a new incarnate idea, new and unexpected development of a plot, new and original interpretation of that problem which has been solved in his previous works. In the article “George Kaiser” by Yuri Klen the biographic approach can be highlighted while analyzing creative works of the German dramatist. The Ukrainian literary critic also outlines the secrets of psychology of the German artist creation in expressionism manner. Expressionism drama is always drama of ideas; therefore acting persons of this drama are not individuals, but types which helps writer to lead the general action of the characters. Yuri Klen asserts transformation of images in dramas by George of Kaiser, their original reduction up to separate characters and allegories: his characters lost the outlines of people and become symbols of idea, super individual creatures, typical samples, and logic of acting can be sacrificed for the sake of the higher logic – logic of composition and dramatic construction. Few times a researcher accents on closeness an artistic world view of the German dramatist to cubism: characters mainly don’t have the names, but appear on the stage under the names: a «father», «multimillionaire», «black», «yellow» – they are structural formulas. Summarizing these the structural-semiotics searches, Yuri Klen marks once again that in George Kayiser’s works can be found: 1) central idea of man renewing which is peculiar for all his creative work; 2) leading motive of escape-chasing and 3) element of contingency which manages events, that is a case-shove which suddenly gives dynamic of action and sets fire before a man as a distant lighthouse – dream about renewal. It is also possible to assert that researches of expressionism by some authors whose creation correlates with expressionism views demonstrates complete maturity of Yuri Klen to be a serious literary critic armed by the newest methodological approaches to study literature as theoretician and practician of literature studies.

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