Schiller's Jungfrau, Euripides's Iphigenia Plays, and Joan of Arc on the Stage

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Schiller's Jungfrau, Euripides's Iphigenia Plays, and Joan of Arc on the Stage City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 9-2015 Sisters in Sublime Sanctity: Schiller's Jungfrau, Euripides's Iphigenia Plays, and Joan of Arc on the Stage John Martin Pendergast Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1090 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] SISTERS IN SUBLIME SANCTITY: Schiller’s Jungfrau, Euripides’s Iphigenia Plays, and Joan of Arc on the Stage by John Pendergast A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The City University of New York 2015 ii © 2015 JOHN PENDERGAST All Rights Reserved iii This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature to satisfy the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 21 May 2015 Dr. Paul Oppenheimer________________________ Date Chair of the Examining Committee 21 May 2015______________ Dr. Giancarlo Lombardi ______________________ Date Executive Officer Dr. Paul Oppenheimer Dr. Elizabeth Beaujour Dr. André Aciman Supervisory Committee THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iv Abstract Sisters in Sublime Sanctity: Schiller’s Jungfrau, Euripides’s Iphigenia Plays, and Joan of Arc on the Stage by John Pendergast Adviser: Professor Paul Oppenheimer At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Schiller reinvented the image of Joan of Arc in his play, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, with consequences that affected theatrical representations of Joan for the rest of that century and well into the twentieth. Regarding representations of Joan of Arc to be found in Shakespeare or Voltaire as unworthy of her nobility, Schiller set out to create a more powerful character who suffers at the hands of fate but changes history by sheer force of will. He took as his allegorical model the characterization of Iphigenia made famous by Euripides in Iphigenia among the Taurians and Iphigenia in Aulis, in which the ancient Greek tragedian transformed his heroine from a pitiable victim of fate into a fearsome priestess with the power to reverse a familial curse and unite a nation at war. Schiller was equally bold with the historical facts of Joan of Arc’s life. Inspired by Euripides, he introduced romance, paternal betrayal, and a rescue almost worthy of a deus ex machina. In Schiller’s alternate version, the enemy soldier who captured her in history becomes the object of her captivated gaze. In place of condemnation by the church, she finds herself denounced by her v own father. Instead of burning at the stake, she experiences a glowing vision of the heavens as she dies in the glory of battle. The effect was electric, and his play’s enormous (albeit short- lived) popularity gave rise to numerous subsequent treatments, including a translation into Russian by Zhukovsky, an opera by Verdi, and an opera by Tchaikovsky. This dissertation examines the literary and aesthetic context in which Schiller created his drama and proposes several reasons for its notoriously ahistorical character. The fundamental, guiding concept here is “sublime sanctity,” which I plan to argue is the product of Schiller’s appropriation of Euripides’ themes into his play. Sublime sanctity, as I plan to show, is the essential quality in Schiller’s depiction of Joan, an idea that seizes the willing spectator and enables the play to achieve its intended force. I plan to argue, moreover, that subsequent versions only achieve their force by retaining key salient qualities that Schiller’s Joan shares with Euripides’ Iphigenia. Without them, these versions must fail; with them, audiences may be introduced to sublime sanctity itself, irrespective of their aesthetic dispositions. After establishing the ideas and principles underpinning sublime sanctity, the investigation will proceed chronologically, with an examination of other manifestations of Joan of Arc, primarily in the theater, either tracing their provenance directly to Schiller or, in the case of Shaw’s Saint Joan, bearing a high degree of affinity with his creation. The discussion will return often to the fluctuating distinctions between classicism and romanticism, idealism and realism, philosophy and history, and the impact produced by these ideas on the creative artists, their works, and their audiences. I will attempt to account for the enduring appeal – or just as often the lack thereof – of the various plays and operas on the basis of these ideas throughout the nineteenth century across Europe. I plan to consider these ideas more as reflections of the circumstances in which the works were created than as the basis for assessing their dramatic impact. Ultimately, this dissertation contends that vi the dramatic value of each of the theatrical incarnations of Joan of Arc under discussion must be judged by the degree to which the various authors and composers preserve the salient elements of sublime sanctity and create an atmosphere for the audience to respond to it. vii Acknowledgements Why Joan? Numerous intersections between the popular conception of Joan of Arc, especially the ideas and symbols depicted in Schiller’s play about her, and the details of my own life explain my choice of this topic. One of my sisters is named Joan, and as a pious little Catholic girl, Joan of Arc was a natural hero for her growing up. She dressed up as Joan of Arc when we were little, and I was very jealous of the sword, shield, and banner my mother made for her. A cousin named Joanne, the variation of Joan, has been fascinated by Joan of Arc all her life, as well. To them I dedicate my work in gratitude for sharing their sincere feeling for Joan, a connection of blood and heart. As Schiller says of Joan: “Dich schuf das Herz” (“You were made by heart”). My sister as Joan of Arc, with our mother behind. Photo credit: Dad, Patrick Pendergast, 1928-2008 Through the entire doctoral process, my partner João Forte, my daughters Tasha and Ali, my other sister Helen, my brother Patrick, my mother Catherine and my extended family have shown enormous patience, understanding, and support, without which I would never have found the heart to complete this dissertation. To them I say: obrigado, спасибо, Danke, and thank you! I have taught at the United States Military Academy, West Point, since 2002, and images related to Schiller’s depiction of Joan abound there, as well. The most prominent is displayed on a viii mural decorating one of the walls in the enormous dining hall, or Cadet Mess, of the academy. This mural is called the “Panorama of Military History,” the center of which is occupied by the image of Richard the Lionheart heading off to the Crusades. Practically touching the nose of his steed is a figure labled “Jeanne d’Arc,” hoisting aloft her sword of St. Catherine of Fierbois as she lifts the Siege of Orleans. Most striking about the image of Joan is its Detail, “Panorama of Military History” resemblance to the tableau that closes the final scene West Point Cadet Mess of Schiller’s play. Another character briefly featured but pivotal to the plot in Schiller’s play is the Black Knight, who is the mascot for the sports teams at West Point. Schiller specifically requested that the image of Minerva grace the cover of the published version of the play. The seal of West Point features the helmet of Minerva, goddess of wisdom. Renderings of Minerva, looming larger than life, look down from a frieze at the top of the old library and, in the form of a statue, from the rafters of a reception hall in the Officers’ Club. Clearly, I had only to look around me to find suggestions for this endeavor. I have been fortunate to be surrounded also by extraordinary cadets and colleagues, to whom I dedicate my efforts for providing inspiration, especially Brig. Gen. Rick McPeak (US Army, Ret.) and Dr. Larry Mansour of the United States Military Academy, who were the first to see in me a potential scholar of Russian language and literature. ix Minerva was the Roman name of the Greek goddess, Athena. My name is John. Like Minerva and Athena, my sister’s name and mine are mirror reflections, which reminds us that brother and sister play a critical role in Euripides’s plays. On the human level, we have Iphigenia and her brother, Orestes. They, in turn, are under the watchful gaze and influence of the brother and sister gods, Apollo and Artemis. I have been fortunate to benefit in the course of my academic development from a scholarly pantheon that continues to open my mind to the riches of Comparative Literature. First and foremost I wish to thank my advisor, Professor Paul Oppenheimer of City College and the CUNY Graduate Center, for first guiding me into the realm of Goethe and Schiller’s Weimar Classicism and for his astonishingly meticulous editing of this dissertation; my readers, Professor Elizabeth Beaujour of Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and Professor André Aciman of the CUNY Graduate Center, for their patience and forbearance; Professor Jacob Stern of the CUNY Graduate Center, who first made the world of ancient Greek and Roman literature comprensible to me; Professor Boris Gasparov of Columbia University, whose literary and musiciological insight blazes trails as it opens new vistas; and Professor Caryl Emerson of Princeton University, whose presence at my first academic conference presentation was as encouraging afterward as it was terrifying beforehand.
Recommended publications
  • Introduction to Meter
    Introduction to Meter A stress or accent is the greater amount of force given to one syllable than another. English is a language in which all syllables are stressed or unstressed, and traditional poetry in English has used stress patterns as a fundamental structuring device. Meter is simply the rhythmic pattern of stresses in verse. To scan a poem means to read it for meter, an operation whose noun form is scansion. This can be tricky, for although we register and reproduce stresses in our everyday language, we are usually not aware of what we’re going. Learning to scan means making a more or less unconscious operation conscious. There are four types of meter in English: iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic. Each is named for a basic foot (usually two or three syllables with one strong stress). Iambs are feet with an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable. Only in nursery rhymes to do we tend to find totally regular meter, which has a singsong effect, Chidiock Tichborne’s poem being a notable exception. Here is a single line from Emily Dickinson that is totally regular iambic: _ / │ _ / │ _ / │ _ / My life had stood – a loaded Gun – This line serves to notify readers that the basic form of the poem will be iambic tetrameter, or four feet of iambs. The lines that follow are not so regular. Trochees are feet with a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed syllable. Trochaic meter is associated with chants and magic spells in English: / _ │ / _ │ / _ │ / _ Double, double, toil and trouble, / _ │ / _ │ / _ │ / _ Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
    [Show full text]
  • Friedrich Schiller - Poems
    Classic Poetry Series Friedrich Schiller - poems - Publication Date: 2012 Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive Friedrich Schiller(10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life, Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/johann-wolfgang-von- goethe/">Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</a>. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision. <b>Life</b> Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (1733–96), and Elisabeth Dorothea Kodweiß (1732–1802). They also had five daughters. His father was away in the Seven Years' War when Friedrich was born. He was named after king Frederick the Great, but he was called Fritz by nearly everyone. Kaspar Schiller was rarely home during the war, but he did manage to visit the family once in a while. His wife and children also visited him occasionally wherever he happened to be stationed. When the war ended in 1763, Schiller's father became a recruiting officer and was stationed in Schwäbisch Gmünd. The family moved with him. Due to the high cost of living—especially the rent—the family moved to nearby Lorch.
    [Show full text]
  • Philosophy Sunday, July 8, 2018 12:01 PM
    Philosophy Sunday, July 8, 2018 12:01 PM Western Pre-Socratics Fanon Heraclitus- Greek 535-475 Bayle Panta rhei Marshall Mcluhan • "Everything flows" Roman Jakobson • "No man ever steps in the same river twice" Saussure • Doctrine of flux Butler Logos Harris • "Reason" or "Argument" • "All entities come to be in accordance with the Logos" Dike eris • "Strife is justice" • Oppositional process of dissolving and generating known as strife "The Obscure" and "The Weeping Philosopher" "The path up and down are one and the same" • Theory about unity of opposites • Bow and lyre Native of Ephesus "Follow the common" "Character is fate" "Lighting steers the universe" Neitzshce said he was "eternally right" for "declaring that Being was an empty illusion" and embracing "becoming" Subject of Heideggar and Eugen Fink's lecture Fire was the origin of everything Influenced the Stoics Protagoras- Greek 490-420 BCE Most influential of the Sophists • Derided by Plato and Socrates for being mere rhetoricians "Man is the measure of all things" • Found many things to be unknowable • What is true for one person is not for another Could "make the worse case better" • Focused on persuasiveness of an argument Names a Socratic dialogue about whether virtue can be taught Pythagoras of Samos- Greek 570-495 BCE Metempsychosis • "Transmigration of souls" • Every soul is immortal and upon death enters a new body Pythagorean Theorem Pythagorean Tuning • System of musical tuning where frequency rations are on intervals based on ration 3:2 • "Pure" perfect fifth • Inspired
    [Show full text]
  • Corporeal Expression and the Paradox of Acting in the German Theater Discourse Around 1800
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Carolina Digital Repository STAGING SPONTANEITY: CORPOREAL EXPRESSION AND THE PARADOX OF ACTING IN THE GERMAN THEATER DISCOURSE AROUND 1800 Matthew West Feminella A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures (German). Chapel Hill 2016 Approved by: Clayton Koelb Eric Downing Jonathan Hess Gabriel Trop Inga Pollmann © 2016 Matthew West Feminella ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT MATTHEW WEST FEMINELLA: Staging Spontaneity: Corporeal Expression and the Paradox of Acting in the German Theater Discourse Around 1800 (Under the direction of Clayton Koelb) This dissertation explores how theories of spontaneity and the body are integrated into acting discourses on the German stage. I argue that the spontaneity of the human body represents a recurring feature in the acting discourses around 1800, which provoked a variety of responses from theorists of the theaters. These responses range from theorizing how to utilize corporeal spontaneity for the benefit of the theater to how to diminish its potential inimical effects on dramatic production. Theorizing about actors and spontaneity led these thinkers to re-conceptualize their notions of anthropology, semiotics, media, and human agency. Chapter 1 examines how Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in his correspondences and dramaturgical writings develops acting techniques that seek to reconcile intentionality and spontaneity: actors create mental images of bodies through poetic language that in turn are integrated into their own affective and bodily motions, thus artificially producing the impression of spontaneous natural action on stage.
    [Show full text]
  • Universidade De São Paulo Faculdade De Filosofia, Letras E
    Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas Departamento de Línguas Clássicas e Vernáculas Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras Clássicas Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa Dispositio e distinção de gêneros nos Epodos de Horácio: estudo acompanhado de tradução em verso SÃO PAULO 2010 ii Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas Departamento de Línguas Clássicas e Vernáculas Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras Clássicas Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa Dispositio e distinção de gêneros nos Epodos de Horácio: estudo acompanhado de tradução em verso Tese apresentada ao Programa de Pós- Graduação em Letras Clássicas do Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas de Universidade de São Paulo para obtenção do título de Doutor. Orientador: Prof. Dr. João Angelo Oliva Neto Co-orientador: Prof. Dr. Andrea Cucchiarelli SÃO PAULO 2010 iii A Laura, meae lauro , e Letícia, laetae segeti iv AGRADECIMENTOS Agradeço ao Prof. Dr. João Angelo Oliva Neto pela orientação e pela amizade e ao Prof. Dr. Andrea Cucchiarelli pela co-orientação e gentil acolhimento durante o estágio no exterior, ambos nel mezzo del cammin della mia vita foram fundamentais para que o trabalho fosse conduzido por diritta via . Agradeço à CAPES, meo Maecenati , pela bolsa concedida que possibilitou não só discutir a tese com pesquisadores estrangeiros, mas também recolher material indisponível em nossas bibliotecas. Agradeço à Prof. Paula da Cunha Corrêa e ao Prof. Dr. Brunno Vinicius Gonçalves Vieira que me argüiram no exame de qualificação, trazendo importantes contribuições para o desenvolvimento da tese. Agradeço a todos colegas da área que sempre me apoiaram, sobretudo ao Prof.
    [Show full text]
  • Schiller and Music COLLEGE of ARTS and SCIENCES Imunci Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
    Schiller and Music COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ImUNCI Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures From 1949 to 2004, UNC Press and the UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures published the UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures series. Monographs, anthologies, and critical editions in the series covered an array of topics including medieval and modern literature, theater, linguistics, philology, onomastics, and the history of ideas. Through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, books in the series have been reissued in new paperback and open access digital editions. For a complete list of books visit www.uncpress.org. Schiller and Music r.m. longyear UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures Number 54 Copyright © 1966 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons cc by-nc-nd license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons. org/licenses. Suggested citation: Longyear, R. M. Schiller and Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.5149/9781469657820_Longyear Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Longyear, R. M. Title: Schiller and music / by R. M. Longyear. Other titles: University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures ; no. 54. Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1966] Series: University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures. | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: lccn 66064498 | isbn 978-1-4696-5781-3 (pbk: alk. paper) | isbn 978-1-4696-5782-0 (ebook) Subjects: Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 — Criticism and interpretation.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Schiller and the Young Coleridge
    Notes 1 Schiller and the Young Coleridge 1. For the details of Schiller’s career and thought I am drawing on a number of works including Lesley Sharpe, Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Walter Schafarschik, Friedrich Schiller (Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 1999); F. J. Lamport, German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity, and Nation, 1750–1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); and T. J. Reed, The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar, 1775–1832 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), and Schiller- Handbuch, ed. Helmut Koopmann (Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner, 1998). 2. Schiller later revised the essay and published it in his Shorter Works in Prose under the title ‘The Stage Considered as a Moral Institution’ (‘Die Schaubühne als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet’). 3. See David Pugh, ‘“Die Künstler”: Schiller’s Philosophical Programme’, Oxford German Studies, 18/19 (1989–90), 13–22. 4. See J. M. Ellis, Schiller’s ‘Kalliasbriefe’ and the Study of his Aesthetic Theory (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1969). 5. See Paul Robinson Sweet, Wilhelm von Humboldt: a Biography, 2 vols (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1978–80) and W. H. Bruford, The Ger- man Tradition of Self-Cultivation: ‘Bildung’ from Humboldt to Thomas Mann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), ch. 1; also E. S. Shaffer, ‘Romantic Philosophy and the Organization of the Disciplines: the Found- ing of the Humboldt University of Berlin’, in Romanticism and the Sciences, ed. Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 38–54. 6. Norbert Oellers, Schiller: Geschichte seiner Wirkung bis zu Goethes Tod, 1805– 1832 (Bonn: Bouvier, 1967).
    [Show full text]
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 45,1925-1926
    PRoGRJWYE 124.1 M>/ ITS HERE! It is the world's first electrical reproducing instrument. There is no other like it. It is the result of a joint effort of the Radio Corpo- ration of America, the General Electric "Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., and Brunswick. See and hear it before you purchase any musical instrument for your home. Convenient Terms CCHarvey® 144Boylston Street Boston SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1925-1926 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT ...... President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE ....... Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN FREDERICK E. LOWELL E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1933 After more than half a century on Fourteenth Street, Steinway Hall is now located at 1-09 West 57th Street. The new Steinway Hall is one of the handsomest buildings in New York on a street noted for finely designed business structures. As a center of music, it will extend the Steinway tradition to the new generations of music lovers. \t THE INST%U<ZMENT OF THE IMMORTALS 1934 Bostoi Forty-fifth Season, 1925-1926 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Hamilton, V. Gundersen, R.
    [Show full text]
  • Basic Guide to Latin Meter and Scansion
    APPENDIX B Basic Guide to Latin Meter and Scansion Latin poetry follows a strict rhythm based on the quantity of the vowel in each syllable. Each line of poetry divides into a number of feet (analogous to the measures in music). The syllables in each foot scan as “long” or “short” according to the parameters of the meter that the poet employs. A vowel scans as “long” if (1) it is long by nature (e.g., the ablative singular ending in the first declen- sion: puellā); (2) it is a diphthong: ae (saepe), au (laudat), ei (deinde), eu (neuter), oe (poena), ui (cui); (3) it is long by position—these vowels are followed by double consonants (cantātae) or a consonantal i (Trōia), x (flexibus), or z. All other vowels scan as “short.” A few other matters often confuse beginners: (1) qu and gu count as single consonants (sīc aquilam; linguā); (2) h does NOT affect the quantity of a vowel Bellus( homō: Martial 1.9.1, the -us in bellus scans as short); (3) if a mute consonant (b, c, d, g, k, q, p, t) is followed by l or r, the preced- ing vowel scans according to the demands of the meter, either long (omnium patrōnus: Catullus 49.7, the -a in patrōnus scans as long to accommodate the hendecasyllabic meter) OR short (prō patriā: Horace, Carmina 3.2.13, the first -a in patriā scans as short to accommodate the Alcaic strophe). 583 40-Irby-Appendix B.indd 583 02/07/15 12:32 AM DESIGN SERVICES OF # 157612 Cust: OUP Au: Irby Pg.
    [Show full text]
  • Friedrich Schiller
    Produktinformation Friedrich Schiller: Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt Gedichte & Balladen gesprochen von Katharina Thalbach, Gerd Baltus, Donata Höffer, Peter Franke, Barbara Nüsse, Maren Eggert, Dietmar Mues Seit Generationen sind die Worte Friedrich Schillers in aller Munde. Seine Enttäuschung über die blutigen Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution klingt in den Zeilen "Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn" ebenso wieder wie sein Optimismus in der "Ode an die Freude". Durch alle Werke dringt die innigste Forderung nach der Freiheit des Körpers und des Geistes. Herausragende, preisgekrönte Interpreten sprechen Friedrich Schillers unvergängliche Balladen und Gedichte - eine Hommage an den großen deutschen Dichter. Inhalt: Die Bürgschaft • An Emma • Die Teilung der Erde • Der Taucher • Die Kraniche des Ibykus • Das Lied von der Glocke • Der Handschuh • Der Ring des Polykrates • Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer • An die Freude CD • ISBN 978-3-8337-1198-5 • € 12,95 UVP Gesamtspielzeit: 01:12:26 Friedrich Schiller wurde 1759 in Marbach geboren. Katharina Thalbach, geboren 1954 in Berlin, hat bis Im Alter von dreizehn Jahren schickte ihn sein Vater heute fast alle bedeutenden Theaterrollen gespielt. auf eine militärische Schule, wo er sieben Jahre lang Größte Publikumsresonanz erzielte sie mit dem Film strengste Disziplinanforderungen und Demütigungen "Die Blechtrommel". Hinzu kamen zahlreiche Film- erlitt. Noch während dieser Zeit begann Schiller "Die und Fernsehrollen, unter anderem in Filmen von Räuber" zu schreiben. Die Uraufführung machte ihn Margarethe von Trotta und in Leander Haußmanns mit einem Schlag berühmt. Verfolgt von Zensur und Kinoerfolg "Sonnenallee". Seit den 1990er Jahren Gläubigern, zog er von einer Station zur anderen und führt Katharina Thalbach außerdem Regie.
    [Show full text]
  • Piotr Ilich Chaikovski - Música
    Piotr Ilich Chaikovski - Música. 1 INTRODUCCIÓN Piotr Ilich Chaikovski En la obra de Piotr Ilich Chaikovski coexisten influencias rusas y centroeuropeas. Fue el primer compositor ruso que figuró en los programas de conciertos del resto de Europa. Hulton Deutsch - Música. Piotr Ilich Chaikovski (1840-1893), compositor ruso, uno de los músicos más destacados del siglo XIX. Nació el 7 de mayo de 1840 en Votkinsk, en la zona de los Urales, estudió derecho en San Petersburgo y recibió clases de música en el conservatorio de esta ciudad. Entre sus profesores se encontraban el compositor y pianista ruso Anton Grigórievich Rubinstein (1828-1894) del que Chaikovski recibió clases de orquestación. En 1866 fue nombrado profesor de armonía en el Conservatorio de Moscú por el pianista y compositor Nicholas Rubinstein, hermano de Anton. Allí el joven compositor conoció al dramaturgo Alexandr Nikoláievich Ostrovski, quien le escribió el libreto de su primera ópera, El voivoda (1868). De esta época también datan sus óperas Undina (1869) y Oprichnik (1872), el Concierto para piano nº 1 en si bemol menor (1875), las sinfonías nº1 (Sueños de invierno, 1868), nº 2 (1873, más tarde revisada y titulada Pequeña Rusia) y nº 3 (Polaca, 1875) y la obertura-fantasía Romeo y Julieta (1870; revisada en 1870 y 1880). En un principio el primer concierto para piano fue dedicado a Nicholas Rubinstein, pero éste lo calificó como 'imposible de tocar'. Fuertemente dolido, Chaikovski hizo múltiples cambios en la obra y esta vez se lo dedicó a Hans von Bülow, que contestó el favor tocando el concierto en su primera gira por Estados Unidos (1875-1876).
    [Show full text]
  • Berzeviczy Klára Német Felvilágosodás És Klasszika Irodalma
    Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar Berzeviczy Klára Német felvilágosodásBölcsészet- és és klasszikaTársadalomtudományi irodalma Kar egyetemi jegyzet ISBN 978-963-308-085-6 Budapest, 2013. ISBN 978-963-308-085-6 Berzeviczy Klára Német felvilágosodás és klasszika irodalma Előszó Mivel a jelen munka elsősorban magyar szakos hallgatók számára készült azzal a céllal, hogy a német irodalomtörténet egyik fontos korszakáról áttekintést nyújtson a számukra, így nem csak történelmi időhatárok, de terjedelmi korlátok is megszabták a lehetőségeket. Természetesen nem térhettünk ki minden lírai műre és a drámák közül is csak válogathattunk, így például terjedelmi okokból le kellet mondanunk Schiller ›Wallenstein trilógia‹-jának tárgyalásáról, és különösképpen szükséges volt az önkorlátozás Goethe prózai művei esetén, mivel ezek többsége terjedelme miatt meghaladta jelen munkánk lehetőségeit. A jegyzet lektorlárásáért a szerző külön köszönetet mond Dr. Ötvös Péter egyetemi magántanárnak (Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Régi Magyar Irodalom Tanszék), valamint a filozófiai részek átnézésért Dr. Turgonyi Zoltánnak, az MTA Filozófiai Intézete tudományos főmunkatársának és végül a jegyzet egyetemi tankönyvként való elfogadásáért a Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Karának. 2 A XVIII. század a modern történettudomány szerint a változások korát jelenti, hiszen e század végét a régi európai társadalom szellemi, társadalmi és politikai rendjének krízise jellemzi. Az odáig vezető út azonban
    [Show full text]