Dr. phil. Toni Bernhart

The circulation of Early Modern European literatures in the eighteenth-century folk plays in Tyrol

At first glance, the Volksschauspiele, or folk plays, seem far removed from any relevant literature. Closer consideration reveals that they are clearly embedded in the framework of highly canonical Early Modern European literatures. Using the example of dramatic texts from the historical county of Tyrol, the project aimed to view folk plays as a crystallization of drama circulation in the European cultural net.

The results of this research study are to be published unter the title: "Volksschauspiele. Rekonstruktion und Dimensionen einer Gattung", 2019 (forthcoming).

Toni Bernhart was co-convenor of the DramaNet conference on Poetics and Politics. In cooperation with Janina Janke, he staged the German "Griseldis" Volksschauspiel at the Benedictine Marienberg abbey of Mals, Tyrol, in November 2016.

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