Conducting role

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A conducting role is a type of director's book that was used in late medieval theater . It bears its name because - unlike comparable contemporary writings in book form - it was designed as a scroll . The Regens or Magister ludi ( lat. " Spielleiter ") directed the performance of the drama , d. H. especially spiritual games .

In contrast to comparable modern writings, a conducting role contained not only the role texts and stage instructions but also precise instructions on the set-up and setting of the stage , costumes and masks as well as practical performance information, etc. a. a list of people and the keywords for the performers. Therefore conducting roles are of great value in terms of theater history .

The best-known conducting roles are the recordings of the Frankfurt Passion Play (beginning of the 14th century, a scroll more than 4 m long; Ms. Barth. 178 ), the Friedberg Processional Play ( 1465) and the so-called Sterzinger scenario, a version of the Neidhart play .

literature

  • Hans Legband : The Alsfeld conducting role . Darmstadt 1904
  • Rolf Bergmann : Göttweiger conducting role in an Easter play . In: 900 years of Göttweig Abbey. 1083-1983. A Danube pen as a representative of Benedictine culture . Göttweig 1983, pp. 573-577
  • Johannes Janota : Frankfurt conducting role, Frankfurt Passion Play. With the parallel texts of the "Frankfurter Dirigierrolle", the "Alsfelder Passionspiel", the "Heidelberger Passionspiel", the "Frankfurter Osterspielfragments" and the "Fritzlarer Passionspielfragments" . Tübingen 1997. ISBN 3-484-19081-7
  • Guy Borgnet : Le rouleau de conduite de Francfort . In: Les jeux de la passion dans l'Allemagne du XIVème siècle . Paris 2006. ISBN 2-7453-1298-7

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