Search results for "Tadeusz Rittner"
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"Lato" Tadeusza Rittnera. "Ostatnie dni starej Europy" i nowoczesny teatr uczuć
2021
This is a reassessment of the work of Tadeusz Rittner, a bilingual Polish/German writer and dramatist from Galicia who won much acclaim in the early decades of the last century. This article examines his narrative and dramatic strategies by focusing on his drama Lato (Summer), published in 1913. It is a story about a timid young man who, after hearing from his doctor that he will not live much longer, turns suddenly into a bold and shameless seducer. This could be the stuff of a conventional, farcical exposure of middle class hypocrisy, yet in Rittner’s drama it becomes a fascinating study, never far from Czekhov and Witkacy, tapping all the resources of realism, irony and grotesque to show…
Nowa komedia, nowy realizm : "Czerwony bukiet" Tadeusza Rittnera
2021
The paper presents a detailed analysis of a little known play by Tadeusz Rittner entitled Red Bouquet, staged in 1905 first in Lviv, subsequently in Kraków, and published only in 1978. Zbigniew Raszewski, an expert in Rittner’s works, presented a negative review of the play. In this paper, the author attempts to correct Raszewski’s arbitrary statements by referring to the concept of comedy and theatrical dialogue developed by Rittner and published in the magazines of his time. Rittner’s views were in line with the order of the evolution of drama in the early 20th century which consisted in the liberation of aesthetic categories from genre-related limitations. Red Bouquet can be considered t…
Opium nieszkodliwe teatru, czyli o "Tragedii Eumenesa" Tadeusza Rittnera
2022
Zbigniew Raszewski uznał Tragedię Eumenesa za jedną z najgorszych sztuk Tadeusza Rittnera. W artykule podjęto próbę polemiki z opinią Raszewskiego. Uwzględniono życzliwe recenzje po premierze w Teatrze im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie w 1920 i pozytywną opinię Lesława Eustachiewicza z 1961, a także recenzje po niepowodzeniu sztuki na deskach Reduty w 1922 roku, które paradoksalnie odsłoniły potencjał tekstu Tragedii Eumenesa, czyli możliwość wystawiania go w różnych konwencjach. Podstawą polemiki jest uważna lektura rękopisu. Komedia Rittnera posługuje się poetyką groteski, farsy, ironii, przede wszystkim jednak operuje jawną teatralnością oraz kategorią snu jako niby-rzeczywistości. Aut…
"Co jest pragnienie moje?" : o "Don Juanie" Tadeusza Rittnera
2019
The article attempts to read a new reading of Tadeusz Rittner’s drama Don Juan (1909), updated with the cultural contexts of the 19th century. Therefore, they were cited, inter alia, works of Søren Kierkegaard’s Seducer’s Diary and The Immediate Erotic stages or the Musical Erotic from the volume Either/Or and the psychological novel by Paul Bourget; as well as motives, themes and views characteristic of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, both the revelations of Sigmund Freud and Otto Weininger, as well as provocations by Alfred Jarry or irony, grotesque, metatheatricalism inherent in austromodernism. The article is an attempt at a polemic with the categorical judgment of Rittner’s dr…
"Jak gdyby to była prawda..." : podejrzany realizm i podejrzany modernizm Tadeusza Rittnera
2020
This paper is an attempt at redefining selected plays written by Tadeusz Rittner in the modernist and symbolist convention. In the 1950s, they were evaluated by Zbigniew Raszewski as among the playwright’s lesser achievements. I have analysed three texts: the one-act plays Sąsiadka (“The Neighbour”) and Odwiedziny o zmroku (“A Visit at Dusk”) as well as the play Don Juan. There is no doubt that the author did not avoid stylistic exaggeration in his modernist works, but one can also find some distance from the conventions of the Young Poland period as well as the use of the grotesque, theatrical sham, and the poetics of intimate drama in these plays. Rittner’s Viennese character is an alibi …