Thesis--Greifswald. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

The following Master’s Thesis aims to describe the social and intellectual state of Austrian and German society after World War II through the perspective of two internationally renowned modern playwrights - Peter Turrini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. As part of the Postmodern movement, the two authors share the view that “modern man” is in a state of self-alienation and strive, through exaggeration and an emphasis on travesty, to bring the intellectually and socially impoverished condition of modern society on stage. Both plays analyze the discrepancy between Europe’s democratic spirit in the mid-sixties and the mentality of everyday individuals (“Katzelmacher”; 1968), as well as the institutional-representatives nearly forty years later (“Ich liebe dieses Land”; 2001), who continue to consider foreigners as a threat and devalue those individuals as outsiders and marginal figures.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 27, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-diss.--München. / Lebenslauf. "Verzeichnis der ... literatur": p. 4-6.

Inaug.-Diss. - Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. i-x.

Thesis (doctoral)--Julius-Maximilians-Universität zu Würzburg, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-493).

Inaug.- Diss.-Würzburg. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 143-170.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Basel. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1919. / Bibliography: p. 63. Also issued in print.