TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fischer, Markus
T1  - Rückkehr ins geschenkte Leben : der Alkestis-Stoff bei Euripides, Hofmannsthal und Rilke
T2  - Germanistische Beiträge
N2  - The present contribution deals with the reception of the figure of Alkestis both in Greek antiquity (Euripides) and in German literature around 1900 (Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke). The contribution shows on the one hand that already Euripides had problems with the dramatic transformation of the antique mythological narrative into a tragic subject. On the other hand it shows that the two modern versions of the narrative of Alkestis around 1900 deal with it quite differently: Hofmannsthal’s free adaptation of the Euripidean Alkestis shifts the subject matter into a Dionysian context, in the light of Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s philosophy, whereas Rilke implants themes and motifs of his own poetry in the narrative of Alkestis and amalgamates them with it.
KW  - The figure of Alkestis
KW  - The reception of Greek antiquity around 1900
KW  - The myth of Dionysus
KW  - Euripides
KW  - Hofmannsthal
KW  - Rilke
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65547
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-655477
UR  - http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/37.1.1.pdf
SN  - 2247-4633
SN  - 1454-5144
VL  - 37
SP  - 13
EP  - 30
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
CY  - Sibiu / Hermannstadt
ER  -