Clowns, Fools and Picaros

Robb, David

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“…For example, Karls Enkel had friends, such as the influential philosopher and academic Wolfgang Heise in the Cultural Association of the GDR, who were prepared to vouch for them to enable critical productions to go ahead. 33 Likewise Brigade Feuerstein had strong support from the Academy of Arts of the GDR, whose members included the legendary Ernst Busch. Busch invited the group to compile the program of entertainment for his eightieth birthday celebrations in 1980.…”

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The Krabat Motif in the Songs and Musicals of Liedermacher Gerhard Gundermann

Robb

2024

Music &Amp; Politics

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This article looks at Gerhard Gundermann’s use of the Krabat motif from Jurij Brězan’s novel Krabat or the Transformation of the World in his Liedertheater productions with Brigade Feuerstein in the GDR and, post-unification, in his solo songs. From Hoyerswerda in South-East Germany, Gundermann was simultaneously an open-cast miner and a singer/songwriter and dramatist who died prematurely in 1998 at the age of 43. Emerging out of the GDR singing club movement in the late 1970s, he relentlessly exposed the ruling SED Party’s monopoly on power in his work with Brigade Feuerstein. After German unification, as a solo performer, he became the mouthpiece of culturally disenfranchised East Germans. Twenty-five years after his death—in the wake of renewed interest in this performer as evidenced by Andreas Dresen’s film Gundermann (2018) and Grit Lemke’s documentary Gundermann Revier (2019)—it is time for a proper academic assessment of his work. This study breaks new ground, firstly in its analysis of the unpublished works of Brigade Feuerstein and secondly by exploring the extent to which Gundermann’s life work was underpinned by the philosophy of Krabat, in its exposing of humans’ exploitation of one another and their environment. In this, one can see how Gundermann created an aesthetic approach that successfully spanned two political systems.

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The Krabat Motif in the Songs and Musicals of Liedermacher Gerhard Gundermann

Robb

2024

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

2014

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Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example audience response, festival context, interface with ritual or political frames). In addition, it also discusses relevant historical issues (political, socio-economic and legal) as well as the artistic and archaeological evidence. The result provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature which will be of help to students at all levels and from a variety of disciplines but will also provide stimulus for further research.

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2014

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

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Clowns, Fools and Picaros

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The <i>Krabat</i> Motif in the Songs and Musicals of <i>Liedermacher</i> Gerhard Gundermann

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