Das Schicksalsdrama des 19. Jahrhunderts als 'Zeitphänomen' zwischen literarischer Tradition und gesellschaftlicher Transformation
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Christian Klein [1]
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[1] University of Wuppertal
University of Wuppertal
Kreisfreie Stadt Wuppertal, Alemania
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- Localización: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, ISSN 0340-4528, Vol. 44, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 220-239
- Idioma: alemán
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Resumen
This article focuses on the genre of the ‘drama of destiny’ (Schicksalsdrama), which was particularly popular in Germany between 1810 and 1825, and which – following the premiere of Friedrich Schiller’s Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina, 1803) – reestablished an ancient concept of destiny as a category of understanding. Through an analysis of Zacharias Werner’s drama Der vierundzwanzigste Februar (The Twenty-fourth of February, 1809), this article shows how the reference to destiny offered a fitting model of meaning to nineteenth-century audiences facing a challenging time of shifting values and socio-political change and uncertainty.
