Monodrama

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Monodrama (from ancient Greek μόνος mónos "alone" and δρᾶμα drama "drama"), also monodrama, solo play or one-person play, is a melodrama in the theater in which only one person appears.

At times, we also understood solo scenes within a comedy as a monodrama. Most of the pieces for pantomimes are also designed as monodramas.

Monodramas were written by Richard von Meerheimb , August Strindberg , Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett , among others . An important monodrama in the musical field is the one-act opera Expectation by Arnold Schönberg (composition) and Marie Pappenheim (libretto).

Many well-known dramas have been adapted as monodrama, e.g. B.

In Germany there are regular theater festivals for monodramas, including a. Thespis - International Monodrama Festival in Kiel since 1999 or Monospektakel in Reutlingen since 2011.

In Austria, the Mono Bene Festival has been taking place every two years since 2013 with monodrama productions from Italy, Slovenia, Germany and Austria.

Bipersonal psychodrama is sometimes incorrectly referred to as monodrama.

List of monodramas and mono-operas

See also

Web links

Festivals

Theater publishers (selection)

Some theater publishers offer search functions on their websites for plays according to the category monologues or according to the number and gender of actors:

Organizations and Awards

literature

Pieces

  • Eva-Maria Pampuch (Ed.): Alone on the stage. First volume. 11 one-person pieces for actresses . Grafenstein Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-924322-24-4 .
  • Eva-Maria Pampuch (Ed.): Alone on the stage. tape 2 : 22 one-person pieces for actors. Grafenstein Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-924322-23-6 .
  • Raimund Gensel and Anja Sprogies (eds.): Monologues. 1st edition. First volume: 24 one-person pieces. Grafenstein Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-924322-09-0 .
  • Marjorie Moffett: The one-woman show: monodramas . Samuel French, New York 1935, ISBN 0-573-60071-6 .
  • Patrick Roth: The vigilant. Three monodramas . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-11614-2 .
  • Wolfgang Wermelskirch: Texts for auditions and acting training 2: 110 solo and duo scenes from the 20th century . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89581-167-8 .

Secondary literature, interpretations

theory

  • Sybille Demmer: Investigations on the form and history of the monodrama . Böhlau, Cologne [a. a.] 1982, ISBN 3-412-04781-3 .
  • Nikolaj Nikolaevič Evreinov: The Theater in Life . Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Center, CT 2013, ISBN 978-1-61427-422-3 (English, unz.org - Russian: Teatr dlya sebya . 1917. First edition: 1927, in the original in 3 parts: 1. Teoreticheskai︠a︡, 2 . Pragmaticheskai︠a︡, 3. Prakticheskai︠a︡ (1915–1917)).
  • Nikolai Evreinov: An Introduction to Monodrama . 1909.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brandauer designed “Midsummer Night's Dream” as a one-person piece. In: Berliner Zeitung. August 13, 2012, accessed September 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Faust as a one-person piece. derwesten.de, October 5, 2008, accessed on September 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ Monospectacle
  4. ↑ Mono Bene Festival
  5. ↑ Mono Bene Festival 2017. Accessed September 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al Suhrkamp: Pieces with a small cast - one-person pieces
  7. ↑ Jan Feddersen: The play "Page One": What is reality anyway? In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 14, 2015, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 15, 2017]).
  8. ^ Page one by Johannes Kram | Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved October 15, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Armgard Seegers: Viewers celebrate Lück in the one-person play "Page One" . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed October 15, 2017]).
  10. ↑ PAGE ONE . In: Krautreporter . ( krautreporter.de [accessed on October 15, 2017]).
  11. ↑ home. Retrieved October 15, 2017 (German).
  12. ^ Tatort commissioner Stark becomes a tabloid journalist . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed October 15, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Interview with Robert DeNiro
  14. ↑ The Vigilant. Three monodramas. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-11614-2 .