Flash drama

A mini drama, also Dramolett or micro- drama (the latter term was created by Wolfgang Bauer ) is a short play that takes a maximum of 15 to 20 minutes, but usually is much shorter.

At the mini dramas include Sketch, foreplay, epilogue, theatrical short stories, one-act plays, fragments, short monologues, pantomime, impromptu improvisations. Often mini-dramas are absurd, grotesque or macabre.

Well-known authors of mini-dramas are, inter alia, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Elfriede Jelinek, Antonio Fian (who refers to his pieces as mini-dramas ), members of the Vienna group, Daniil Kharms and Ken Campbell. Wolfgang Bauer pointed to his microdramas (1962 /63) the boundaries of theater by letting, for example, a DC-6 landing on the stage within less than five -minute pieces by means of stage direction ( in the micro- drama The Three Musketeers ), 10000 Apaches over ride the stage and the entire opera works of Richard Wagner can perform without interruption ( in the micro Drama Richard Wagner). Theoretically, beyond the latter, from the length of her, even the genre boundaries of the mini drama, but Bauer's microdramas deemed unplayable and are therefore read- dramas and the text said piece no more than three pages long.

Publications

  • Wolfgang Bauer: microdramas. (Painted 1962/63 In. W. Bauer: Collected Works, Volume 1: one-act play and early dramas Graz, Vienna. Droschl 1986. ) ISBN 3-85420-126-5
  • Karl Heinz Braun (ed.): mini-dramas. ( gathered 111 mini-dramas, HC Artmann about Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Monty Python, and even Arthur Schopenhauer up to Thornton Wilder. Publisher of the authors, 1987) ISBN 978-3-88661-082-2
  • Anton Christian: The passage of time.
  • Franziska Polanski: You despair outside please.
  • Lida Winiewicz: ghost train. A Vienna World Travel.
Wolfgang Bauer (writer) Sketch comedy Literary fragment Mime artist Theatre of the Absurd Black comedy
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