Implizite Performativität: Zum medialen Status des Donaueschinger Passionsspiels

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  • This article focuses on the mediality of the Donaueschinger passion play, oscillating between textuality and performativity, rituality and theatrality. It argues that the play is composed as a reading text, regarding the speech, style and the narrative, poetological and exegetical character of its stage directions. In spite of its being intended to be read the passion play exhibits theatralic and liturgical elements, that allow to identify its literary genre. The detailed description of décor and actions on stage and even of the audience helpsThis article focuses on the mediality of the Donaueschinger passion play, oscillating between textuality and performativity, rituality and theatrality. It argues that the play is composed as a reading text, regarding the speech, style and the narrative, poetological and exegetical character of its stage directions. In spite of its being intended to be read the passion play exhibits theatralic and liturgical elements, that allow to identify its literary genre. The detailed description of décor and actions on stage and even of the audience helps to imagine a performance, that exceeds the textual status of the manuscript. The text's performative dimension invites the reader to participate in contemplating Christ's passion and in worshiping him.show moreshow less

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Author: Regina ToepferORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-277942
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für deutsche Philologie
Language:German
Parent Title (German):Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur
ISSN:0005-8076
Year of Completion:2009
Volume:131
Issue:1
Pagenumber:106-132
Source:Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (2009) 131:1, S. 106-132. https://doi.org/10.1515/bgsl.2009.006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/bgsl.2009.006
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur
GND Keyword:Performativität; Passionsspiel
Tag:Aufführung; Medialität; Ritualität; Textualität; Theatralität
Release Date:2022/07/04
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht