Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Göttingen--Universität, 1994. / Bibliogr. p. 373-384.

Esta dissertação apresenta a tradução parcial, comentada, da sátira antinazista Dritte Walpurgisnacht, redigida pelo escritor austríaco Karl Kraus (1875-1936) em 1933 e publicada postumamente em 1952. Trata-se de um texto ainda inédito em português que analisa o fenômeno nacional-socialista em suas manifestações linguísticas no jornalismo e na vida pública alemã em geral. Os alvos do satirista são os enunciados que jornalistas, políticos, escritores e filósofos usaram para dar expressão a suas adesões a um regime político baseado no empobrecimento da linguagem e na violência sem limites. Na medida em que essas figuras públicas são chamadas pelos seus nomes e atacadas diretamente, essa sátira pode ser mais bem definida como uma sátira polêmica. Esta tradução parcial é precedida por um capítulo que contextualiza sucintamente essas questões; um segundo capítulo inicial trata, depois de um breve preâmbulo histórico, de duas abordagens diferentes na teoria da tradução, tentando estabelecer algumas relações entre o texto ora traduzido e essas teorias. / This work presents the partial, commented translation of the anti-Nazi satire Dritte Walpurgisnacht written in 1933 by the Austrian author Karl Kraus (1875-1936) and published posthumously in 1952. It is a text not yet translated into Portuguese that analyses the National Socialist phenomenon in its linguistic expressions in journalism and in the German public life in general. The targets of the satirist are the statements made by journalists, politicians, writers and philosophers to express their support to a political regime based on poverty of language and unlimited violence. As far as these public figures are called by name and attacked in an open manner, this satire would by better defined as a polemical satire. This partial translation is preceded by a chapter that briefly contextualizes these questions; after a short historical introduction, a second initial chapter deals with two different approaches in translation theory, trying to make some connections between the now translated text and these theories.

Esta dissertação apresenta a tradução parcial, comentada, da sátira antinazista Dritte Walpurgisnacht, redigida pelo escritor austríaco Karl Kraus (1875-1936) em 1933 e publicada postumamente em 1952. Trata-se de um texto ainda inédito em português que analisa o fenômeno nacional-socialista em suas manifestações linguísticas no jornalismo e na vida pública alemã em geral. Os alvos do satirista são os enunciados que jornalistas, políticos, escritores e filósofos usaram para dar expressão a suas adesões a um regime político baseado no empobrecimento da linguagem e na violência sem limites. Na medida em que essas figuras públicas são chamadas pelos seus nomes e atacadas diretamente, essa sátira pode ser mais bem definida como uma sátira polêmica. Esta tradução parcial é precedida por um capítulo que contextualiza sucintamente essas questões; um segundo capítulo inicial trata, depois de um breve preâmbulo histórico, de duas abordagens diferentes na teoria da tradução, tentando estabelecer algumas relações entre o texto ora traduzido e essas teorias. / This work presents the partial, commented translation of the anti-Nazi satire Dritte Walpurgisnacht written in 1933 by the Austrian author Karl Kraus (1875-1936) and published posthumously in 1952. It is a text not yet translated into Portuguese that analyses the National Socialist phenomenon in its linguistic expressions in journalism and in the German public life in general. The targets of the satirist are the statements made by journalists, politicians, writers and philosophers to express their support to a political regime based on poverty of language and unlimited violence. As far as these public figures are called by name and attacked in an open manner, this satire would by better defined as a polemical satire. This partial translation is preceded by a chapter that briefly contextualizes these questions; after a short historical introduction, a second initial chapter deals with two different approaches in translation theory, trying to make some connections between the now translated text and these theories.

À l’ère de la spécialisation, des sciences sociales et de l’autonomisation de la littérature, la langue du polémiste s’attaque à « l’universel reportage » (Mallarmé). Les Cahiers de la quinzaine de Charles Péguy (1900-1914), la revue Die Fackel (le Flambeau) de Karl Kraus (1899-1936) et les « écrits divers » (zawen) des années 1920-1930 de Lu Xun représentent trois tentatives pour situer l’œuvre littéraire dans une frange critique de l’actualité, à distance du journalisme et du feuilleton. Le texte du polémiste est un discours sans autorisation sur les phénomènes politiques, sociaux et culturels de son temps. Il exalte un « je » souverain, qui porte le masque de Timon, de Thersite ou de Xing Tian, le combattant acéphale de la mythologie chinoise. Rejeté hors de la littérature ou du champ de la création par ses contemporains et par l’histoire littéraire, le polémiste perturbe les catégories génériques et l’idée même d’œuvre. La thèse propose de réinterroger le statut de l’œuvre polémique dans la littérature. Elle examine les différents lieux et temps d’inscription propres au polémiste (discours social, revue, recueil, œuvre complète, anthologie…) et tente de poser les jalons d’une poétique de la polémique. La constitution d’une telle poétique passe par la ressaisie des interdits relatifs à la polémique. Au polémiste, il est reproché de manquer de tact. La thèse inverse ce reproche en édifiant la catégorie paradoxale de « tact du polémiste », à partir de la pensée critique allemande en particulier (Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno). La parrêsia du polémiste n’est pas tant le tout-dire, qu’une certaine optique, un art de l’exagération et de la déformation : une souveraineté abusive sur le détail. La thèse ouvre sur l’enjeu de la mémoire de ces œuvres : les textes de polémistes deviennent des sismographes de la littérature mondiale, eux qui ne circulent pas facilement au-delà des frontières nationales et n’ont pas la lisibilité des fictions. / At a time of specialization of professions and autonomization of literature, the language of the polemicist attacks the “universal reportage” (Mallarmé). The Cahiers de la quinzaine of the French writer Charles Péguy (1900-1914), the anti-journal Die Fackel of the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus (1899-1936) and the “miscellaneous texts” (zawen) written by the Chinese author Lu Xun in the 1920s and 1930s represent three attempts to write a literary work on the fringes of the conventional categories of journalism or “feuilleton”. The text of the polemicist is a non-authorized discourse on current political, social and cultural events. It exalts a sovereign “I”, who wears the mask of Timon, Thersites or Xing Tian, the beheaded rebel in Chinese mythology. Rejected from literature by his contemporaries and literary history, the polemicist upsets the well-established literary categories as well as the understanding of what a writer’s work is.This thesis analyzes the different dimensions of the way the polemicist writes about his time (social discourse, magazines, collection, books, complete works, anthologies) and draws the outline of a poetic of the polemic. This attempt implies to reconsider what the literary tradition blames the polemicist for, especially his lack of “tact”. This blaming is here reversed, as we try to develop the paradoxical category of the “tact of the polemicist”, inspired by the German critical thinkers (Walter Benjamin, Th. W. Adorno). For the polemicist, the parrhesia does not consist in saying everything but rather in trying to find the right perspective. It is above all an art of exaggeration and distortion: a sovereign use and abuse of details. This thesis leads to the question of the memory of these works: while polemicists do not easily cross national borders and do not offer the readability of fictions, their texts paradoxically become a kind of seismograph of “world literature”.

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This thesis gauges the contemporary landscape of political theatre at a time in which everything, and consequently nothing, is political. That is, almost all theatres today proclaim a politics, and yet there is widespread resignation regarding the inevitability of capitalism. This thesis proposes a theory of political action via the theatre: radical theatre today must employ a strategy of "moving targets". Theatrical actions must be adaptable and mobile to seek out the moving targets of capital and track down target audiences as they move through public space. In addition, political theatre must become a moving target to avoid amalgamation into the capitalist system of exchange. I approached this topic through four case studies. Two of the case studies, Reverend Billy's Church of Stop Shopping and the Critical Art Ensemble, are based in the United States. I studied their work via materials - books, essays, videos, websites, interviews, and more - but not in person. The other two case studies are lifted from my own experience with the Christchurch Free Theatre: an original production of Christmas Shopping and a devised production of Karl Kraus' play The Last Days of Mankind. These latter two case studies served as laboratory experiments through which I was able to test ideas and problematics of political theatre that arose through my research. These case studies led to the determination that creating aesthetic experiences and actions - as opposed to having explicitly political content - can be a strategy or foundation for a radical political theatre that resists, undermines, and at times transcends the seeming inevitability of consumer capitalism. In an age in which any political intervention is seen as senseless disruption, a form of pointless violence, this theatre has adopted the strategies of terrorist actions to have a disruptive effect without positing a specific alternative social structure.

This study examines the relationship between sexuality and actorial artistic creation in the autobiographic writings of the German actor Klaus Kinski (1926-1991). Departing from Socrates’ appraisal of Eros in the Platonic dialogue Symposion, the text confronts two classic theories on sexuality and art: Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland’s book on macrobiotics and vital power (Lebenskraft), The Art of Prolonging Human Life, and Sigmund Freud’s texts on sublimation. Plato, Hufeland and Freud have in common that they see art and sexuality, representing spiritual and carnal life, as rivals. Hence, artistic production has to rely on a renunciation of physical love, either through abstinence or transformation of sexual energy into spiritual creative power. The case of Klaus Kinski is particularly important, since his literary works seems to resist sublimation of any kind. While devoting himself to libertinage – which he renders in detail – he still succeeds in creating works of art, as an actor and as a writer. The artistic conditions for Kinski the actor, being an active force in control of theatrical objects and means, in contrast to the passive-receptive actor in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks on Malte Laurids Brigge, further adds to this particularity. Kinski’s refusal to recognise a rivalry between love and art has its roots in Constantin Stanislavski’s method of acting, in which the task of the actor is to give life to the role by giving it both spiritual and bodily life, having body and mind working together towards the higher aim of theatrical performance. Yet this paradigm of incarnation, as opposed to inspiration, does not apply exclusively to theatrical and performing arts, where the work of art is constituted by the actor’s body. In a text from 1927 about the rhyme, the Austrian writer Karl Kraus proposes an „erotics of language”, in which the ideal Paarung (coupling or mating) implies both the physical act of reproduction, and sonorous combination of two rhyming words, uniting distant spheres or entities. In this sense, Kinski’s ideal coupling can be understood as a joint venture between mind and body, art and sexuality, theatre and life, enabling him to enjoy a frivolous love life without abandoning artistic creation.

English: In this thesis I examine the concept of satirical silence as the compositional principle of Karl Kraus’s drama Die letzten Tage der Menschheit to demonstrate the ways in which the features of modern satire introduce the recipient to the construction of its critique. In Kraus’s drama, silence manifests itself twofold: as a reaction to the First World War and as the only remaining form of satire in the context of public war-euphoria and the widespread use of the press and war-coverage as propaganda tools. From the interruption of Kraus’s periodical Die Fackel at the beginning of the war to the satirical treatment of the homefront in his drama, Kraus’s silence represents a performance of imposed powerlessness. By approaching Kraus’s drama with Walter Benjamin’s concept of storytelling, I analyze satirical silence as an appropriate aesthetic response to the prevailing social conditions and thus to the changing character of the public sphere in modern society. Benjamin’s concept of storytelling and his description of incommunicability as a characteristic of post-war society are at the center of my analysis of modern satire as a reception-based literary practice. Given that satire is a social conversation practice between satirist and recipient, I argue that Kraus’s use of drama as a medium for reprocessing the First World War is built upon the ability of the dramatic form to show how silence emerges as the result of a break between the conversation partners of satire. German: In dieser Arbeit beschreibe ich das Konzept des satirischen Schweigens als Gestaltungsform von Karl Kraus’ Drama Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, um hierin die Züge der modernen Satire in der Hinwendung zum Rezipienten zur Formulierung der satirischen Kritik zu erweisen. Das Schweigen manifestiert sich in Kraus’ Drama sowohl als Reaktion gegenüber dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges, wie auch als die einzig verbleibende Gestaltungsform der Satire angesichts des Verlusts ihres Publikums an den Kriegsenthusiasmus und die propagandistisch gestimmte mediale Berichterstattung. Von der Unterbrechung der Publikation seiner Zeitschrift Die Fackel zu Beginn des Krieges hin zur Dokumentation der Heimatfront in seinem Drama bekundet das Schweigen des Satirikers eine Ausdruckskraft in der erzwungenen Ausdruckslosigkeit. Mit Walter Benjamins Konzept des Erzählens analysiere ich das satirische Schweigen als angemessene ästhetische Reaktion auf die gesellschaftlichen Gegebenheiten und somit veränderten Umstände der öffentlichen Rezeption in der modernen Gesellschaft. Benjamins Konzept des Erzählens sowie seine Beschreibung der Unmitteilbarkeit der Nachkriegsgesellschaft bilden die theoretische Fundierung meiner Analyse der modernen Satire als rezeptionsästhetische Kategorie. Ausgehend von dem Verständnis der Satire als ein soziales Gespräch zwischen Satiriker und Rezipient, sehe ich Kraus’ Zuwendung zum Drama als Medium der Aufarbeitung des Ersten Weltkrieges in dem dramatischen Vermögen begründet, das Schweigen als Bruch der Gesprächsteilnehmer, als Bruch der Beziehung von Satire und Öffentlichkeit zu dialogisieren. / Graduate / 2020-09-25