Week Two
Antigone, Lecture Three
Versions of Antigone: Cluster of
Antigones focused on the Nazi period
Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) Antigone written 1942/premiere 1944 in
Nazi-occupied
Rolf Hochhuth
(1931- ) “Berlin Antigone” 1963
(set in 1945)
Brecht’s adaptation of
Sophocles’ Antigone
written 1945/premiere
1948 in
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Remember Bertolt
Brecht? 1898-1956
http://img.stern.de/_content/56/75/567524/Brecht_250.jpg
Buried Bertolt Brecht: http://www.bertolt.com/copyright/bertolt_brecht_grave.jpg
Brecht’s Theater: Epic Theater Alienation Effect
What did Brecht DO with the Antigone material?
“The Antigone
Legend”
“Prologue”
Bernd Eichinger/Oliver
Hirschbiegel: The Downfall 2004
Bruno Ganz
plays Hitler April 1945
Use of Antigone
to address a historical catastrophe: What is Brecht’s Antigone
doing?
Significant differences
between Brecht’s story in the “Antigone Legend” and
Sophocles play:
Prologue: What is she doing with the knife?
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What on earth/in earth/under
earth is Erwin Kowalke doing all around
April 16, 1945: “A 908,000-strong Red Army force
supported by 3,100 tanks opened its assault on
"As unfathomable as it may seem now, the German
soldiers truly believed they would still win the war and were highly motivated
to defend their folk, the fatherland and Fuehrer," said Gerd-Ulrich Hermann, head of the Seelow
memorial museum.
"They knew they were the last line of defense before
From: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050405/wl_nm/germany_graves_dc_1)
Kowalke’s Antigone index [vs. Zidane]
http://www.anthroprof.org/documents/docs119/fallen.pdf
Does the archetype re-cast or re-shape or re-order the
circumstances?
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Kleist’s Compliant/Defiant
Horse Dealer
Heinrich von Kleist 1777-1811
