Academic literature on the topic 'Komischer Held'

The recent emergence of robot opera, in which robots and robotic entities have served polyvalent and at times ontologically ambiguous roles, has challenged the distinction made by Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy between anthropocentric and mechanized eccentric theater, as is outlined in his 1924 essay “Theater, Circus, Variety.” When incorporated into the context of music theater, is the robot dimension intended to replace human activities and modes of expression; to augment, disembody or dislocate them; or rather to absorb them, such that the robot becomes an ersatz human presence in and of itself? If the latter, does the robot adequately emulate human attributes of musical expression, or does it establish its own artificial expressive mode and set of performance techniques? With Moholy-Nagy's criteria for a so-called Theater of Totality and these leading questions in the background, salient robot opera examples of the past several years will be discussed. Repertoire examples include Tod Machover's pioneering Death and the Powers (2010), the Komische Oper Berlin production My Square Lady (2015), Keiichiro Shibuya's Scary Beauty (2018), and works emerging from the University of Sussex Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre Robot Opera Mini Symposium, held in 2017.

Der Beitrag untersucht Lars von Triers metafilmische Komödie The Boss of it all, ausgehend von Jean Francois Lyotards Überlegungen zum ästhetischen und philosophischen Experiment und entlang von Stanley Cavells Annahmen zum Genre als Medium sowie zur Komödie als Genrereflexion. The Boss of it all legt demnach den experimentellen Charakter des Genrefilms, des Filmgenres und speziell des Komischen frei. Der Film zeigt sich als ein paradoxes experimentelles Gebilde, das sich von seinem Autor, von den Genreregeln und von den Zuschauererwartungen ablöst, einen eigenen Handlungs- und Reflexionsstatus findet und genau darin Produkt der Anordnungen wird, die er in Frage stellt. Diesen ontologisch und handlungstheoretisch eigensinnigen Status des Films versucht der Beitrag im Begriff des Agenten zu fassen.<br><br>The contribution explores Lars von Triers meta-filmic comedy The Boss of it all, starting from Jean Francois Lyotard’s reflections on the experiment in art and philosophy, and following the lines of Stanley Cavell’s assumptions on »genre as medium« and on comedy as reflexive form of film genre. The Boss of it all unfolds the experimental character of genre film, fi lm genre, and comedy. The fi lm presents itself as a paradoxical experimental object, detaching itself from its author, from genre rules and spectator’s expectations. It acquires an independent status of action and reflection, and precisely by this looks at itself as a product of the orderings which it puts into question. This is described here under the aspect of ontology as well as in terms of action theory with the help of the concept of the agent.