High comedy

High comedy is a satirical term from the context of the New Frankfurt School .

definition

Robert Gernhardt used it in his comic theory writings of the 1980s. High comedy is characterized by intellectual , reflexivity and -referentialität (Metakomik), reference richness and sense refusal ( nonsense ) from. This differentiates high comedy from other forms of entertainment that are exclusively for amusement and which Klaus Cäsar Zehrer describes as the "joke trade of comedy ".

literature

• Kerstin Hoffmann-Monderkamp: Comedy and nonsense in the lyrical work of Robert Gernhardt - Approaches to a theory of literary comedy. ISBN 3-8311-2401-9
• Bernd Eilert (ed.): The house book of literary comedy. ISBN 3-251-00100-0