In his drama, prose, and poetry, Frank Wedekind often focused on the figure of the dancer. A
thematic and formal analysis of the poems “Tingel-Tangel,”“Grand Ecart,”“Modernes …

The word is the medium of the writer, so it is curious to think of the tradition of writers–
Goethe, Heine, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, to name a few–who crafted ballets and …

Frank Wedekind's So ist das Leben has been routinely dismissed as the jeremiad of a self-
pitying dramatist, but minimal attention has been given to the importance of his role as a …

Frank Wedekind (1864–1918), the German dramatist whose work was a link between
Büchner and Brecht, anticipated in his attack on bourgeois society the modern drama of …

Abstract “Practice and Theory of Dance in Goethe's Meister” explores Mignon's egg dance
as an allegorical function of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. The literary representation of dance …

Although Wedekind's initial enthusiasm for the circus was rather superficial, from the time he
went to Paris in 1891 that popular entertainment form became the foundation of many of his …

This study engages with the two Witch Dances by Mary Wigman, a pioneering artist of
German modern dance called Ausdruckstanz that developed during the first two decades of …

W hat does it mean to watch a dance? As Kate Elswit shows in Watching Weimar Dance, it is
a deceptively simple question. It is also a question concerning anyone interested in Weimar …

In his collection of poems, West-östlicher Divan (West-Eastern Divan), Goethe develops a
novel concept of mobile authorship, which opposes the notion of a fixed, unified, and …

Stephen C. Meyer details the intricate relationships between the operas Der FreischÃ1⁄ 4tz
and Euryanthe, and contemporary discourse on both the" Germany of the imagination" and …