Did Goethe Anticipate Fischer-Lichtes Aesthetics of Performance? Theatre and Public around 1800

  • Sven Neufert

Abstract

In his habilitaton Primavesi investigates the relation between imaginations of celebration and theatre around 1800. Borrowing from Fischer-Lichtes aesthetics of performance, ritual theories, and George Batailles theory of transgression, Primavesi sheds light on the ambivalent stance of German bourgeoisie on the idea of a non-representative celebration. The discourse on ways of creating new forms of public constantly refers to the idea of a non-representative celebration, but at the same time it is afraid of its consequences. Primavesi analyses this ambivalence within many different fields of discourse, e.g. travel literature, theatre novels, eye-witness accounts of the French Revolution, and German drama from Goethe to Büchner.

Published
2010-07-31
How to Cite
Neufert, Sven. 2010. “Did Goethe Anticipate Fischer-Lichtes Aesthetics of Performance? Theatre and Public Around 1800”. KULT_online, no. 24 (July). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2010.549.
Section
KULT_reviews