Fateful drama

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The fateful drama or the fateful tragedy is a type of drama that developed at the beginning of the 19th century in the succession of the aristocratic tragedy that had become old-fashioned .

The fateful drama has enjoyed particular popularity since the romantic era : Here, the hero is not confronted with fate as divine will, but rather as a gruesome or spooky event that is more likely to entertain the audience than to shake it tragically. Examples of romantic fateful dramas are about Zacharias Werner's The Twenty-Fourth February , Adolph Müllner's Die Schuld or Franz Grillparzer's Die Ahnfrau . According to Walter Benjamin , the fateful drama is the "so-called tragedy" of literary romanticism. In contrast to the Baroque tragedy, the sovereignty of the prince is no longer a power of order (as in The Twenty-fourth February , where reference is made to the French Revolution ).

The fateful drama is a German-language variant of the Paris and London melodrama that replaced the older tragedy with noble characters and political symbolism during the French Revolution and dominated the popular stages in the first third of the 19th century. In contrast to ancient and classic French tragedy, the fate of the melodrama is no longer the inscrutable will of gracious authorities, but the (controllable) law of nature.

See also

literature

  • Balhar, Susanne: The fateful drama in the 19th century. Variations of a romantic model . Munich: Meidenbauer, 2004. ISBN 3-89975-486-7 .
  • Renk, Herta-Elisabeth: fateful drama . In: Metzler Literature Lexicon. Terms and Definitions . Edited by Günther and Irmgard Schweikle. 2., revised. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler 1990. p. 413. ISBN 3-476-00668-9 .
  • Fate tragedy . In: Gero von Wilpert : Subject Dictionary of Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 231). 6th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-520-23106-9 , pp. 728-730.
  • Wogenstein, Sebastian: fateful drama . In: Reallexikon der Deutschen Literaturwissenschaft . Edited by Jan-Dirk Müller u. a. Vol. 3. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003. pp. 375-377. ISBN 3-11-015664-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Benjamin: Origin of the German tragedy. In: Ders .: Collected Writings , Vol. I / 1, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1974, p. 262.