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Publication details [#4025]

Kohlmayer, Rainer. 1996. Oscar Wilde in Deutschland und Österreich: Untersuchungen zur Rezeption der Komödien und zur Theorie der Bühnenübersetzung [Oscar Wilde in Germany and Austria: investigating the reception of comedy plays and the theory of theatre translation] (Theatron: Studien zur Geschichte und Theorie der Dramatischen Künste 20). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. xii + 452 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
German
Keywords
comparative research=contrastive research | literary approach=literary discourse=literature | literary translation | National Socialism | reception | theatre | theory=translation theory=interpreting theory
Source language
English
Target language
German
Person as a subject
Gide, André | Wilde, Oscar
Main ISBN
3-484-66020-1

Abstract

This book is based on 90 translations or adaptations and 200 stage productions. The research mainly deals with the plays' initial lack of success, Andre Gide's and Carl Hagemann 's enormous influence on the reception of the plays, the theatre success of Adel Sandrock in the 1920's and 1930's and Wilde's national socialist ideologization. This work shows how important the translator's role was for the reception of these plays.
Source : Sourcel A. Matthyssen

Reviewed by

Vaerenbergh, Leona Van. 1997. Review of Oscar Wilde in Deutschland und Österreich: Untersuchungen zur Rezeption der Komödien und zur Theorie der Bühnenübersetzung. Linguistica Antverpiensia 31 : 213–215.