Sainete

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The (rare: the) Sainete ( span. Sainete "delicacy") is a fluctuating way -heiterer, short one-act plays of Spanish theater tradition with instrumental guided vocals and dance. It is characterized by a witty play on words . Towards the end of the 17th century it replaced the entremés as an interlude and an aftermath ; In the 18th century, Ramón de la Cruz developed it from a frame piece to an independent folk piece . The stage action of the Sainetes is a burlesque or satirical snapshot from the popular life of Madrid , without a real framework, a conversational piece with popular, realistic characters. They have therefore become one of the most popular dramatic genres in Spanish theater.

In addition to de la Cruz with El Manolo (1784) or La Petra y la Juana (1791) and Luis Quiñones de Benavente , there were countless anonymous authors and composers. As popular small form, the Sainete also claimed over the period of the Enlightenment and its classical dramas forms of time and maintained their identity to the late 19th century within the Género chico to become a major genre.

The main authors of the second bloom were the brothers Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero and Carlos Arniches . Their Sainetes gained great importance as a popular, socially critical genre until they were ousted by operetta and variety theater in the 1920s . The Catalan Sainetes played a special role in the 19th century, who, in addition to popular theater, discovered the genre as a form of sharp social and political satire and thus elevated Catalan to the rank of a theatrical language. Above all, Frederic Soler Hubert should be mentioned here.

literature

  • Ursula Voss: The Sainete. Investigations into a genre of Spanish folk theater with special consideration of the authors Ramon de La Cruz, Ricardo de La Vega and Carlos Arniches . (Dissertation) Berlin 1970
  • Reinhard Bauer: The work of José Luis Alonso de Santos' in the tradition of Sainete literature. A differential analysis comparison . Graz 1994
  • Nicola Wilke: The sainete madrileño of the 80s. Updates to the traditional folk play in contemporary Spanish theater . (Dissertation) Tübingen 1999. ISBN 3-8233-5226-1