Love triangle
As a love triangle literary or cinematic representation of a will love triangle designates.
Triangle stories in film and literature
In classical literature, triangular stories mostly describe the relationship between a man and two women, while the reverse constellation is less common. Occasionally the relationship between three men or three women is also the topic, for which the novel Billy Budd is a well-known example (foundling Billy, Captain Verde and the criminal Claggart).
As a rule - almost always in the film - triangular stories describe a love relationship (wife-husband-lover or vice versa ), which is linked to the topics of infidelity and jealousy , lack of decision-making or renunciation , and sometimes also murder . Some novels are based on disturbed friendships between artists (e.g. Goethe, Hans von Bülow / Richard Wagner, Clara Schumann / Brahms). Occasionally, however, literature also recognizes platonic triangular relationships (e.g. in the religious field or Friedrich Schiller's longstanding double love for the sisters Caroline and Charlotte von Lengefeld ).
Another frequent subject is relationship conflicts between the generations, usually in the triangle between son, mother and daughter-in-law. Most of these stories take place in a heterosexual setting; an example of the representation of same-sex love is the film Abschiedsblicke (1986).
A number of cabaret or film series also know the combination of a fixed couple - a so-called screen pair - with a third leading actor (or actress). Was known here u. a. the comedian trio of Dorothy Lamour , Bob Hope and Bing Crosby .
Some well-known triangle stories
In the literature
- Man and 2 women: Herzmäre (13th century), Endymion (antiquity) or Endimione (opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio 1721, set to music by Johann Christian Bach 1772, among others), A Waltz Dream (Dörmann / Jacobson, Oscar Straus 1907), Waiting ( Ha Jin 1992), Elisabeth (musical) (Michael Kunze 1992, also subject of death), ...
- Woman and 2 men: Arthurian legend (15th century), The Princess of Clèves ( Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette 1678), The Sorrows of Young Werther ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774), Mona Lisa (opera libretto by Beatrice Dovsky 1915 ), Der Ball des Comte d'Orgel ( Raymond Radiguet 1920), Serenade for three (Noel Coward / Ernst Lubitsch 1933), Jungle in the Storm (1928/32), When the postman rings twice (novel) (James M. Cain, 1934), The Quiet American (Graham Greene 1955), Nastanir (Rabindranath Thakur, filmed in 1964 as Charulata - the lonely woman ), The Bridge of Ambreville (Alain Leblanc, filmed in 1999)
In the movie
- Man and 2 women: Varieté _ (A.Dupont 1925), Ann Vickers (Sinclair Lewis 1933), Unrestrained Love (with Joan Crawford, 1947), An Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder 1948), Andaz (1949) , Sami Frey in César and Rosalie , Zwei Freundinnen (Claude Chabrol 1968), Mein Mann, mein Leben und du (Helmut Förnbacher 2003),
- Woman and 2 Men: The Last Four (pilot drama, 1932), In the Net of Passions (Tay Garnett 1946), Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger 1947), Saadia (Albert Lewin 1953), West Side Story (1961), Dorothy Lamour with changing Partners, Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim , The Taxi Driver (Jacques Bral 1980), Matador (P.Almodóvar 1986), Excalibur (John Boorman 1981), A Heart in Winter (Claude Sautet 1992), Obsession (Peter Sehr 1997), Das last piece of heaven (Brüderproblem, 2007) and much more
