Tang Xianzu

Tang Xianzu (Chinese汤显祖/汤显祖, Pinyin Tang Xiǎnzǔ, W.-G. T'ang Hsien -tsu, also Tang Hsien Dsu; * September 24, 1550 in Linchuan (Fuzhou ); † July 29, 1616 same place ), was a important stages of Chinese -author of the Ming Dynasty.

Life

Tang Xianzu was born in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, Linchuan earlier than known. After he had obtained his doctorate in 1583, he became secretary of the Ministry of Culture; his official career led him among other things, to Nanjing, Zhejiang and Guangdong. - 1598, he retired to his hometown and devoted himself entirely to writing, writing short stories and poems, in particular, of course, the writing for the theater. Under the general title The Four Dreams of Linchuan, or even the four pieces from the Yüminghalle Tang Xianzu published four major dramas; below that is the in the history of literature most frequently cited work that - for older templates The Return of the Soul titled - The romantic drama The Peony Pavilion Päonienlaube or ( Mudan Ting = ). The great Chinese playwright of the 16th century was convinced that human emotions ( qing ) are stronger than reason ( li ), and he sang in his plays, such as especially in his masterpiece, The Peony Pavilion, the victory of love over feudal ethics. The individual scenes are only loosely strung together in epic episode. The whole drama is not designed according to strict laws through twists and developments, not completed by increasing, height, disaster and finish. In the design of each scene in the design and painting of their mental states of the creative will and the artistic achievement of the Chinese playwright culminate. This representation of the poetic conception by Vincenz Hundhausen, of a translation of the main work of Tang Xianzu undertook with its translation into German in the 1930s, first in a European language, follows in his treatise on The Traditional Chinese theater also the Bonn sinologist Wolfgang Kubin, which the playwright Gerd Hergenstadt Lubben appropriated on a Xianzus word - dances around talk of love and happiness related text has (quote):

" ON " THE RETURN OF THE SOUL " / / a thousand red and ten thousand / pupur raise / our heart / we cut the fragrant / branches sublime / pure are the colors / over and over all / allüberwindend / / flies hope to you / for loving write sing / play tang Xianzu / dream of death and the / / resurrection into the new / live your piece of happiness / / on huan hun ji / ... "

In 1992 was created earlier than Linchuan known hometown of Fuzhou in Jiangxi Province, a " Memorial Garden " in memory of her great poet in Tang's where the dream landscapes, which the playwright described in his works, are reproduced. In a building of the park there is a theater that lists excerpts from the plays of Tang Xianzu regularly.