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Wie der Medienwechsel vom Roman zum Film und die spezifische Medialität von Brief, Buch und Film reflektiert wird, möchte ich an zwei Verfilmungen von Johann Wolfgang Goethes monophonem Briefroman "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" (1774/87) zeigen. Für Goethes "Werther" verzeichnet die Internet Movie Database 18 Verfilmungen, von denen viele historisierend sind und einige nicht direkt auf Goethes Roman, sondern auf Jules Massenets Oper basieren. Aus den vielen "Werther"-Verfilmungen habe ich zwei ausgesucht, die sich gut ergänzen und über Medialität reflektieren: Egon Günthers historisierende, in der DDR entstandene Verfilmung "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" von 1976 und Uwe Jansons aktualisierende Adaption "Werther" (D 2008). "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" ist Egon Günthers letzter Kinofilm in der DDR, der phantasievoll mit der Vorlage umgeht und Systemkritik übt. Mit Uwe Jansons "Werther" analysiere ich eine Verfilmung, die Werthers Geschichte vom 18. ins 21. Jahrhundert versetzt.
Olmis Verfilmung ist mit Roths Text, mit dessen Schweben zwischen Glauben und Ironie durchaus kompatibel. Diese Feststellung wird im folgenden mit einer intermedialen Analyse belegt, die sich auf den Schluß von Vorlage und Verfilmung konzentriert, um Rauminszenierung als Phänomen von Diegesis und Mimesis zu untersuchen.
Rilke und Twombly
(2016)
Im Hinblick auf den Zugriff auf Rilkes Poesie kommt den filmischen Zeugnissen von Wenders und Schmerberg keine sekundäre Rolle zu. Ohne die Gedichte zu entstellen oder zu verfremden, entwickeln sie auf unterschiedliche Weise eigenständige Positionen: Während Wenders einen eher freien Dialog mit der Vorlage eingeht, auf der Ebene von Anspielungen, Modernisierung und Fortschreibung operiert, setzt der Regisseur von "Poem" auf eine künstlerisch anspruchsvolle Übersetzung des Textes in das audiovisuelle Medium. Obgleich sich Rilkes poetische Konstruktionen
aufgrund ihrer Vieldeutigkeit und Offenheit spezifischen Bedeutungsfixierungen entziehen, scheint doch gerade ihr Reichtum an Bildern sowie deren bewegliche Verknüpfung für filmische Zugriffe prädestiniert. Das Zusammenspiel aus visuellen und auditiven Eindrücken verhilft der performativen Anlage der Lyrik noch zu weiterer Entfaltung.
Alfred Döblins Roman "Berlin Alexanderplatz" zählt seit seinem Erscheinen im Jahr 1929 zu den wichtigsten Werken der Großstadtliteratur des Jahrhunderts. Seine Bedeutung für die experimentelle Qualität des Montageromans fußt jedoch nicht nur auf der Großstadterfahrung an sich, sondern ganz wesentlich auf den Folgen des Ersten Weltkriegs, die in "Berlin Alexanderplatz" in einer spezifischen Weise wirksam werden. Es werden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des literarischen Schreibens über Traumata der Nachkriegszeit untersucht und Bezüge zur Interpretation von Rainer Werner Fassbinder hergestellt. Die gängige Interpretation des experimentellen Montageromans wird dabei in Frage gestellt.
Seit einigen Jahren setzt die Filmwirtschaft wieder verstärkt darauf, das breite Publikum mit der Adaption von literarischen Texten in die Kinosäle zu locken. Das Interesse erstreckt sich sowohl auf Klassiker als auch auf Werke der Gegenwartsliteratur: Thomas Manns 'Buddenbrooks', Heinrich Manns 'Henri IV', Theodor Fontanes 'Effi Briest', Martin Walsers 'Ein fliehendes Pferd', Patrick Süskinds 'Das Parfum' und Bernhard Schlinks 'Der Vorleser' wurden innerhalb weniger Jahre auf die Leinwand gebracht. Die Liste lässt sich mit populären Titeln vor allem der jüngeren Literatur fortsetzen, etwa Thomas Brussigs 'Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee', Judith Hermanns Erzählband 'Nichts als Gespenster' (vielleicht die gelungenste der hier genannten 'Literaturverfilmungen', Benjamin Leberts 'Crazy', Sven Regeners 'Herr Lehmann', Frank Goosens 'Liegen lernen' und Martin Suters Romane 'Small World' und 'Lila Lila'. Dieses neu erstarkte Interesse an der Literatur mag auch eine Reaktion auf den florierenden Diskurs über den angeblichen oder tatsächlichen deutschen Bildungsnotstand sein: Wenn die Schule als Bildungsinstitution versagt, muss die Unterhaltungsindustrie versuchen, die klaffenden Löcher zu stopfen, das Heer der Leseunwilligen via Bild mit einem gewissen Maß an Kanonischem zu versorgen. Ich konzentriere mich hier auf zwei 'Literaturverfilmungen', deren Macher offenbar auf eine in zahlreichen Ratgebern und Fachpublikationen zur filmischen Dramaturgie propagierte - aber auch kritisch diskutierte - 'Rezeptur' gesetzt haben, um die Chancen auf einen kommerziellen Erfolg zu erhöhen.
The subject of this paper is a recent comic movie version of Dante's "Comedy": a 2007 puppet and toy theatre adaptation of the "Inferno" directed by Sean Meredith. It is certainly not the first time that Dante and his theatre of hell appear in this kind of environment. Mickey Mouse has followed Dante's footsteps and very recently a weird bunch of prehistoric animals went a similar path: in part three of the blockbuster "Ice Age" (2009), a new, lippy guide character named Buck uses several Dante quotes and the whole strange voyage can be described as a Dantesque descent into dinosaur hell. In the following pages Ronald de Rooy argues that Meredith's version of Dante's "Inferno" is not only funny and entertaining, but that it is also surprisingly innovative if we compare it to other literature and movies which project Dante's hell or parts of it onto the modern metropolis.
'Perhaps the sodomites should be written out of Dante's "Inferno"', Jarman wrote in his journal on 1 August 1990: 'I'll offer myself as the ghostwriter.' What does he mean by 'ghostwriter' here? How queer is this odd speech-act? What is he offering to do to the homophobic landscape of the "Inferno", that forbiddingly sealed textual prison, with his Hollywood pitchman's casual bid to 'write out' the sodomites as if they were a slight embarrassment to the divine justice system? Is he speaking in jest as a writer of gay satires and sacrilegious memoirs, or in deadly earnest as an activist who had renounced the middle-class pretensions and frivolities of the pre-AIDS gay world? [...] Jarman counters the trope of homosexual theft visually with the triumphant figure of Man with Snake. The Dantesque merging of snake and thief is replaced by an erotic dance in which the gilded youth raises his phallic partner above his head and seductively kisses it on the mouth. Whereas Dante would have us notice the grotesque parody of the Trinity played out in the seventh bolgia - with the unchanging Puccio as God the Father, the two-natured Agnello-Cianfa as Christ, and the fume-veiled Buoso receiving his forked tongue from the serpent Francesco in a demonic replay of the gift of tongues from the Spirit - Jarman clears away all overdetermined theological meanings to revel in the purely aesthetic impact of the phallic dancer. All the ghosts from Dante's snakepit are conjured away in the film and replaced with the solid presence of a single gorgeously spotlit male body. Ghostwriting Dante, for Jarman, meant more than a mere appropriation of homoerotic scenes from the "Inferno" into his screenplay. It meant a complete reimagining of their aesthetic significance within the filmscape of his Dantean transformations.
The 1935 Fox Films "Dante's Inferno" (directed by Harry Lachman) traces the rise and fall of an entrepreneur. Its protagonist, Jim Carter (played by Spencer Tracy), begins the story as a stoker on a cruise liner. The narrative opens with a burst of flames from the ship's boiler, and the ensuing scene goes on to show the protagonist competing at shovelling coal for a bet in the sweltering engine-room. Interspersed are shots of the superstructure directly above with a number of elegant and vapid passengers following the game below. This initial sequence thus concisely conveys the main features of the film's social agenda through imagery that anticipates that of two of its later 'infernal' sequences. [...] Spectacular admonition and concern about the ruthless pursuit of wealth are the main features which link this "Inferno" of the thirties to the one that had appeared some six hundred years earlier. Wealth and avarice were, of course, demonstrably serious concerns for Dante: as Peter Armour, for example, has shown, there is a recurrent and pervasive concern with money, its meaning, and its misuse throughout the "Commedia". So it is not surprising that the "Inferno" should also have been appropriated by social critics some hundred years before the 1935 Hollywood fable. [...] Some of the narrative and visual patterns in "Dante's Inferno" imply an uneasy underlying vision of the movie industry and its practices. Other productions, publicity, and journalism of the time reinforce suggestions of such a metafictional approach to movies, morality, and the market in the 1935 "Dante's Inferno".
In December 1960 the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York displayed a series of thirty-four illustrations of the "Inferno" by the avant-garde artist Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg had developed this project over the previous two years, working on it almost exclusively, first in New York City, and then in an isolated storage room in Treasure Island, Florida, where he retreated to concentrate on the last half of the cycle. [...] Whatever the spark that set the project in motion, we find Rauschenberg's reply to his detractors here: the refuse that crowded his "Combines" was no joke, nor was it there to undermine or deride high art in the spirit of Dada. With his collection of things, he was composing a new language, turning fragments - the ruins of his environment and culture - into emblems. And what is an emblem if not a composite figure, an assemblage of diverse fragments into a new unity and order? As such, it is an elusive visual allegory whose pictorial image tends to lose its consistency and become a sign open to interpretations; in it, the different narratives springing from its multiple nature come together and give birth to a polysemic language. It is with this language, abstract and referential at the same time, that Rauschenberg translates Dante's poem and makes it new by linking it to something in existence, present in the viewer’s reality of mechanically reproduced images. By choosing 'to ennoble the ordinary', he, perhaps unconsciously, became the hermeneutist of his age and gave durability to what was trivial and precarious.
Transforming a text - narrative or poetic - into a play, made of dialogues and organized into scenes, has been one of the most frequent forms of literary transcodification both in the past and in the present. We can find examples of this procedure at the very origins of Italian theatre, which indeed began as the rewriting of earlier texts, both in the "sacre rappresentazioni" and in the profane field: the Bible in the first case and the Ovidian mythologies in the second. Poliziano's "Fabula d'Orfeo" and "Cefalo e Procri" by Niccolò da Correggio are the first well-known examples of this process. Thus, the metamorphosis of a text into a dramatization has many models in the history of theatre and literature. It would be of great interest to start with an overview of the different types, aims, and forms of transcodification of texts that are enacted in order to create dramatizations capable of being performed on stage. Erminia Ardissino attempts to offer an introduction to her study of Giovanni Giudici's play about Dante's "Paradiso" with a brief discussion of three different practices of theatrical transcodification. She looks at three pièces written at the request of the Italian scenographer Federico Tiezzi between 1989 and 1990 as stage productions of the three cantiche of the Divine Comedy. Although they belong to the same project, are inspired by the same person, and share a unified aim, the three pièces created by Edoardo Sanguineti, Mario Luzi, and Giovanni Giudici show three different approaches to the task of transcodifying a text in order to produce a drama - the task, in Genette's words, of creating a theatrical palimpsest.
Das künstlerische Verhältnis zwischen Richard Strauss und seinem Librettisten Hugo von Hofmannsthal ist auch heute noch in der Forschung ein kontrovers diskutiertes Thema. Viele Interpreten sind offenbar durch die sehr unterschiedlichen Temperamente beider Künstler dazu angeregt worden, ihre bewertenden Urteile weniger durch Werkanalysen als vor allem durch Persönlichkeitsstudien zu belegen.
On the one side there is book culture, centered on the printed book as a material object; on the other digital culture, centered on what is displayed on a screen, by now more often than not that of a mobile phone. In the cultural imaginary, the two practices are separated by far more than just media technology. The girl in Delevingne's picture, in choosing to read a book rather than participate in the social media arena, opts (as the black-and-white blocking of the caption neatly reflects) for a commendable type of media use: She sharpens her intellect and exercises her imagination, she digs deep rather than staying on the surface, and she engages – in a seemingly disinterested manner – with valuable content rather than obsessing over how to present herself in the best light. Her absorption is a badge of honor, much different from the 'bad' absorption of digital media users, a recurring trope that is artistically represented, for example, in the much-acclaimed surrealist photo series "SURFAKE" by the French photographer Antoine Geiger, which represents mobile phone users whose faces are sucked into their devices.
The adaptation of disaster: representations of environmental crises in climate change fiction
(2019)
In light of climate change, the attempt to overcome the gap between the 'Two Cultures' appears more urgent than ever. With climate change being only one of the environmental crises marking the so-called Anthropocene, knowledge production and representations are constantly challenged. The very reason that led to the idea of proclaiming a new geological epoch can be taken as evidence for the collapse of the Cartesian dichotomy between nature and culture. The Anthropocene marks an epoch in Earth's history in which the human species has become a geological force. That is, the effects of industrialized civilization are now forming geological strata that irreversibly change the face of the planet and its future. However, if nature and culture cannot be meaningfully distinguished anymore, how, one might ask, is a divide within academia still of concern? Would it not naturally perish with the insight that what has been regarded as nature has now been thoroughly pervaded by remnants of human actions? To the contrary, the persistence of the gap between the sciences and the humanities is one of the main reasons that complicates the representation and, ultimately, hinders the understanding of the problems which characterize the new epoch. Inability or unwillingness to change behavior on a collective level will most probably lead to environmental, political and social disaster on an unprecedented scale.
In this article, I will argue for a different notion of adaptation as a form of appropriation that allows a more productive analysis of the literary works of German author Rainald Goetz. Therefore I will draw on a specific understanding of pop music, which derives from Diedrich Diederichsen 'Über Pop-Musik' (On pop music). According to Diederichsen, pop-music is not limited to certain kinds of music, but moreover to the practices pop-music entails.
In the early 21st century, scientists once more declared God a delusion and announced the end of faith, boosting the current critique of religious belief known as 'New Atheism'. Yet the contemporary British and Irish novel engage with religion in various forms, and religion has indeed "returned", Andrew Tate argues, "to the study of literature". The Bible in particular proves a rich source for novelists as different as Colm Tóibín, Zadie Smith, and Philip Pullman among others. Where Colm Tóibín's 'The Testament of Mary' (2012) offers a fictional memoir by the mother of God, depicting the Virgin Mary as "a powerful, unsparing figure" ('Guardian'), Zadie Smith's 'NW' (2012) describes the lives of its two female protagonists against the backdrop of the stories of Mary and Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke. And Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy 'His Dark Materials' (1995- 2000) is a re-writing of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' (1667) that "only really makes sense" according to Tate "if the reader has a detailed knowledge of the biblical scriptures against which it writes". Despite being written from a very critical, ironic or atheist stance, all these novels rely on the Bible as an intertext in crucial ways. The Bible, in other words, is once more living up to its ancient reputation as "the Book of Books", "the Urtext of Western literature".
The discipline of adaptation studies has come a long way from its academic inception in novel-to-film studies. Since George Bluestone's seminal 1957 study Novels into Film, often regarded as the starting point of modern day Anglo-American adaptation studies, the discipline has seen a continual widening of its methodology as well as of the material scholars are willing to regard as adaptations. Particularly since the turn of the 21st century and the increasing institutionalization of the discipline as distinct from literary or film studies, adaptation scholars have widened the scope to include a broad range of media, encompassing not only the traditional adaptations from novels and drama into film, but also novelizations of various other media, video game and comic adaptations, TV series, opera, theme parks and tie in vacations, and many more. Others have included the study of media franchises as dependent on adaptation. As part of this redefinition of the discipline, scholars have also widened their discussion to bring to the centre aspects that were not originally the main focus of adaptation researchers' comparative textual analyses, including industrial structures, legal frameworks, and, most frequently and emphatically, questions of intertextuality and the cultural and ideological embeddedness of adapted texts.
The discipline of adaptation studies has come a long way from its academic inception in novel-to-film studies. Since George Bluestone's seminal 1957 study Novels into Film, often regarded as the starting point of modern day Anglo-American adaptation studies, the discipline has seen a continual widening of its methodology as well as of the material scholars are willing to regard as adaptations. Particularly since the turn of the 21st century and the increasing institutionalization of the discipline as distinct from literary or film studies, adaptation scholars have widened the scope to include a broad range of media, encompassing not only the traditional adaptations from novels and drama into film, but also novelizations of various other media, video game and comic adaptations, TV series, opera, theme parks and tie in vacations, and many more. Others have included the study of media franchises as dependent on adaptation. As part of this redefinition of the discipline, scholars have also widened their discussion to bring to the centre aspects that were not originally the main focus of adaptation researchers' comparative textual analyses, including industrial structures, legal frameworks, and, most frequently and emphatically, questions of intertextuality and the cultural and ideological embeddedness of adapted texts.
Die philosophische Erkenntnis in der 'Klage der Ceres' : Schillers Adaption des Proserpina-Mythos
(2018)
While Ceres behaves actively and energetically in the traditional myth, Friedrich von Schiller's poem 'Klage der Ceres' (1797) shows her within the same ancient plot but as a more emotional figure. This detailed analysis explains the poem's structure and the stylistic devices which lead to its philosophical impact. It also addresses the awareness that death is a part of life and discusses how art can help to reinvent traditional ideas.