„Nach dem Henker mußte noch der Photograph heran.“ Krieg und Fotografie in Karl Kraus’ Monumentaldrama Die letzten Tage der Menschheit
Abstrak
Karl Kraus has attached a selection of photographs to his five-act tragedy Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind, 1918): the first serial publication contained seven photographs—two of which also seem to “frame” the drama in the book version. The polemical criticism of Alice Schalek’s war reports which are presented in this dramatic text are also related to the many photographs which illustrated the reworked versions of her scattered newspaper columns, Tirol in Waffen (Tyrol in Arms, 1915) and Am Isonzo (On the Edge of Isonzo, 1916). In addition, the characters share their comments on photographs and reproductions in several scenes (I/24, III/9, III/41 et V/55). This paper begins with a panorama of the intermedial references embedded in the drama. It then offers a literary commentary on the images, before concluding with an attempt to define their aesthetic function.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Norbert Wolf
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2020
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.4000/ceg.12415
- Akses
- Open Access ✓