Station drama

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The station drama is a form of drama in which the individual scenes or images are loosely strung together and above all connected to one another by the protagonist of the play. The station is part of the drama form of the open drama and is in contrast to building a classic in record structured rule drama . The individual stages of the plot stand side by side in isolation and on an equal footing, without building on one another, forming a causal chain of events or a continuous arc of tension.

The course of action usually only offers one pole and no counter-action. The focus is on the main character, who is clearly separated from the other characters in the drama. The protagonist's monologues are given more weight than dialogues with other characters. The individual scenes become stations on his way in the real sense of a drama of migration as well as in the figurative sense of his inner development.

The mystery plays from the 14th century onwards already followed a station drama. The individual stations of the cross of the Passion of Jesus of Nazareth were reproduced in the Passion Play .

Formative for the theater of Expressionism was August Strindberg's station drama , which he first used in Nach Damascus (1898–1904) and with which he later tried to recreate the structure of a dream in Ein Traumspiel (1902). The form of the station drama became characteristic of the expressionist drama and can be found in plays such as Von morgens bis mitternachts (1912) by Georg Kaiser or Die Wandlung (1919) by Ernst Toller . Wolfgang Borchert also resorted to this form of drama with Outside Before the Door (1947). Peter Handke's Untertagblues (2003) met his subtitle Ein Stationendrama in two ways , as the stations of a subway journey became the stations of a passenger's monologue.

literature

  • Péter Szondi : Theory of Modern Drama (= Edition Suhrkamp 27). 23-30 Thousand. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1966, pp. 46-47.
  • Uwe Spörl: Basic Lexicon Literary Studies (= UTB 2485 Literary Studies ). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2485-6 , pp. 230-231.

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