"The dramaturgical integration of text and music in Brecht's ""Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg"""

"This study represents the first comprehensive analysis of the dramaturgical integration of text and music in Bertolt Brecht's anti-Fascist play, Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg. Among the eight plays and over 150 Lieder on which Brecht and Hanns Eisler collaborated in their 28-year partnership, Schweyk is an ideological and artistic landmark. In it, Brecht's song texts and Eisler's music serve multiple socially-critical functions. While the song texts provide a means for the ""little man"" to counter the threat of totalitarianism, the versatile score uses ironical, incongruous, and unexpected musical effects to reinforce the political implications of the words, often adding Eisler's own critical perspective to the action on stage."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

German

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Gerdemen-Klein, Ellen R.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Schoeps, Karl-Heinz

• Literature, Germanic
• Music
• Theater

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Gerdemen-Klein, Ellen R.

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9522110
(UMI)AAI9522110

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20180