The woman without a shadow (narration)

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The woman without a shadow is a story by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal , which was first published in 1919 by S. Fischer in Berlin.

content

The content of the story is essentially congruent with Hofmannsthal's libretto for the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss . Equating the plot of the opera and the content of the narrative falls short, however, as Hofmannsthal continues to interpret numerous empty spaces in the opera libretto , thereby opening up further plot lines and turns. If one follows Lorenz Jäger's interpretation of the genesis of the narrative, there are few works that Hofmannsthal found as difficult as this, "in which - after the first version for the opera - he again had to find his own language, to construct his own idiom."

expenditure

  • The woman without a shadow . Story by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Berlin 1919 (first print).
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The woman without a shadow. Eine Erzählung (= Ders .: Complete Works. Critical Edition, Volume XXVIII, Erzählungen I. Edited by Ellen Ritter), Frankfurt am Main 1975, pp. 107–196.
  • Collected works in ten individual volumes. Stories, invented conversations and letters, travel. Frankfurt a. M. 1979, pp. 341-439. zeno.org
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The woman without a shadow. A story (= Ders .: works in ten volumes . Edited by Lorenz Jäger), Frankfurt am Main 1999.

Secondary literature

  • Lorenz Jäger: Peace-building in the war between the sexes. Hofmannsthal's fairy tale "The woman without a shadow" . In: Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The woman without a shadow. A story (= Ders .: works in ten volumes . Edited by Lorenz Jäger), Frankfurt am Main 1999, pp. 107–110.
  • Wilfried Kuckartz: Hugo von Hofmannsthal as an educator. On the problem of poetry and pedagogy or the role model in education and upbringing, illustrated using the example of Hofmannsthal's fairy tale "The woman without a shadow" and the comedy "The Difficult" in a depth-psychological-pedagogical interpretation. Publisher: Adolf Bonz GmbH ISBN 3-87089-360-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jäger (1999), 110