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The Theater of the Absurd is a form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations and plots that lack realistic or logical development.

Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 History 2 The ancestors 3 The pioniers 4 The successors 5 The German speaking 6 Literature on absurd theater 7 Weblinks

[Bearbeiten] History

The Theater of the Absurd was developed as a reaction to World War II after 1945. The most important representative of this kind of drama are Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.

In the Theatre of the Absurd, existential philosophy is combined with the classical drama, which presented a world that can not be logically explained. Life is in one word, ABSURD!

Needless to say, this genre of theatre took quite some time to catch on because it used techniques that seemed to be illogical to the theatre world. The plots often deviated from the more traditional episodic structure, and seem to move in a circle, ending the same way it began. The scenery was often unrecognizable, and to make matters worse, the dialogue never seemed to make any sense.

The mentality standing behind the Theater of the Absurd is the cognition that values and ideals of earlier times became invalid. This notion is widely spread after the turn of the century. People get a feeling of existential fear, because they recognize their lives as senseless. Absurd is something without ambition...if a human being gets detached from his or her religious, metaphysical or transcendent roots, so he or she is lost, everything he does will be senseless, absurd, futile, choked in germ. The authors of the Theater of the Absurd pass on a new dramatical form. They abdicate on logic, argumentation and a clear structure of their acts and disesteem the traditional bases of drama. Theater cannot be epical because it is dramatic.

[Bearbeiten] The ancestors

• Alfred Jarry 1873-1907

[Bearbeiten] The pioniers

• Michel de Ghelderode 1898-1962
• Samuel Beckett 1906-1989
• Arthur Adamov 1908-1970
• Eugène Ionesco 1909-1994
• Jean Genet 1910-1986

[Bearbeiten] The successors

• Harold Pinter 1930-
• Edward Albee 1928-
• Sławomir Mrożek 1930-
• Boris Vian 1920-1959
• Fernando Arrabal 1932-

[Bearbeiten] The German speaking

• Max Frisch 1911-1991
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1921-1990
• Thomas Bernhard 1931-1989
• Martin Walser 1927-
• Franz Xaver Kroetz 1946-
• Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1916-1991

[Bearbeiten] Literature on absurd theater

• K. A. Blüher (Hrsg.): Modernes französisches Theater. Darmstadt 1982
• M. Esslin: The Theatre of the Absurd. New York 1964 (Deutsche Fassung im Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag).

[Bearbeiten] Weblinks

• "Theater of the Absurd"
• Literary Encyclopedia

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