The German-Language Critical Reception of Čapek’s W.U.R

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The German-Language Critical Reception of Čapek’s W.U.R

Original language description

The study examines German and Austrian productions of Čapek’s RUR and their critical reception. Just two years after its first publication, the play was translated into German by Otto Pick as W.U.R. - Werstands Universal Robots (1922). Its German premiere in on 6 October 1921 in the Stadttheater Aachen was followed by two productions in 1923 - in the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin (directed by John Gottowt) and in Vienna’s Neue Wiener Bühne. I will also explore reflections in the German speaking world on thematic and figural similarities between Čapek’s RUR and Georg Kaiser’s pivotal German expressionist plays Gas I (1918) and Gas II (1920).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Days After. Ethical Dilemmas of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society in 20th and 21st Century Theatre in the Light of Karel Čapek´s Plays R.U.R. and The White Plague

ISBN

978-80-7008-470-0

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

26-39

Number of pages of the book

222

Publisher name

Institut umění - Divadelní ústav

Place of publication

Praha

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