rein Gold
Pure GOLD. a stage- essay is a prose work by Elfriede Jelinek. The Urlesung took place on 1 July 2012 at Prince Regent Theatre in Munich, was published on March 8, 2013 by Random House. The first performance as a music theater piece took place at the Staatsoper Berlin on 9 March 2014.
Pure GOLD is a debate between "B: Brünnhilde " and "W: Wotan, the Wanderer ," in which it comes from the perspective of Brünnhilde to prevailing conditions to the abdication of her father Wotan and to value and impact power of gold and money on the capitalism.
The text, on the tracks of Richard Wagner's work Der Ring des Nibelungen, establishes connections between economic and political corruption, and shows related such as power, capital, theft, heroism and guilt. Specifically, two German scandals of the winter 2011/12 will be addressed, the real estate borrowing of the then German President Christian Wulff and the robberies and murders of the NSU. Jelinek engaged in this work German heroic symbolism and economic abstinence in a critical spotlight on polemical, artful manner and with high intertextual density, which has been updated by the director on the day of Urlesung again.
Content
Input raises Brünnhilde to her father Wotan right to have taken over financially to build his castle - " A situation like in every second family " - whereupon an altercation between B and W results. Both have each three speeches. These include 4-50 pages in length. B starts, W has the final word. In it, he maneuvers between the announcement of his departure and his desire to continue to follow in Experimertierlaune various stimuli ". Let's see what will come of it "
During the dispute, Wotan withdraw in groaning Direction exaggeration of his responsibility and it is formulated a vision in which money is gradually assuming god same function. The work was a " nightmare vision of the last days of the age of capitalism ," says the scientist Susanne Vill in their analysis.
References to other works
Title
With the title of the work, pure gold, Jelinek plays on Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold (1869 ), the first of the four operas in the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. In Wagner's constellation of Brünnhilde, however, occurs not on this eve. The dialogue between B and W refers to the Valkyrie (1870 ), the second opera in the Ring tetralogy, and will be punished there on the third dialogue between Brünnhilde and Wotan, in the last scene of the last act, in which Brünnhilde of Wotan. The title of Jelinek's work has abzuhandeln as intertext the function, in two words, the history of Wagner's Das Rheingold before the dialog of B and W starts at Jelinek, who then makes the actual text of pure GOLD.
Further intertextual references
The text of Jelinek provides a reference for Nibelungensage prepared by various horizons are fused together: the horizons of myths figures with those of Wagner's protagonist, and the religious-historical scope of the first with the reception history of the second.
In Wagner's Wotan judges arbitrarily and pseudo- the criminal justice from his daughter Brünnhilde, Jelinek, however, overrides this father - daughter relationship so that B forcing in the protests of W, to justify himself. B denotes Ws Valhalla disparagingly as a family house, which conversely B W punished. Jelinek interpreted with quotations from Marx's Capital the ring as the analysis of the euro and sovereign debt crisis as a result of the stock market and banking crisis and Socialize with it into an interpretation that Wagner's Ring read as anti-capitalist allegory, focusing on Wagner's participation in the revolution of 1848 / 49 occupations. In question George Bernard Shaw came with his work ring, The Perfect Wagnerite (1898 ) and the interpretation of the ring, the Patrice Chéreau had submitted with his production at the Salzburg Festival in 1976. The political economy of Marx will be applied to the ring. Nicolas Stemann sees a parallel between the home loan that was not repaid, in Jelinek's text, and the wages that has been the giant not paid for their work, in Wagner's work, which was the starting point of the story that is told in the ring. Topic was " the greed for gold and power and its pitfalls. " In order to eradicate Bauschulden the Rheingold will be stolen and wage labor remains unpaid. Labor, capital and value creation would be focused in the text of Jelinek and the critique of capitalism from Marx, which dates from the time of Wagner's will, faced with the current economic conditions of 2011/12, where the constitutive relationships between these three components would be more and more resolved.
Other associations relate to the crime comedy The Pink Panther, 1963, in which it also involves a stolen assets, in this case a diamond. As a counterpart to Brünnhilde's rebellion against Wotan this comedy will ambivalent combined with the civil law motivated Black Panther Party for Self -Defense, but then tapered to the NSU and contempt of death of the soldiers of the " father of the gods [s ] in the Führer's bunker ".
Using burlesque, coarseness and non-stop, rap -like tirades will also counteracted the monumental gesture of Wagner's music.
Style
Pure GOLD consists of language areas in the style of a stream of consciousness that allows for free association. The themes of Wagner's tetralogy were " superimposed over again and mess out in ever new language games together," Jelinek says the director of Urlesung, Nicholas Stemann. In this speech flow is interfering in the course of the work increasingly the present, with daily news about the racist murders of NSU and Finance / Euro crisis. As there should be an equivalent to Wagner's compositional technique, the art of transition, imitate Jelinek musical technique using ramified intertexts that would alienated puzzling. In language games with Kinderabzählversen, assonance and alliteration with that parody Wagner alliteration, relationships would be hidden and made the sense of a message unrecognizable.
Origin and sources
Pure GOLD written at the suggestion of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and is based upon information provided by the author on the libretto and the prose draft of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, on a time-historical study of the legal historian Wolfgang sign with the title State dusk. To Richard Wagner's " Der Ring des Nibelungen " (2007), on the capital ( 1867-1894 ) by Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto (London, 1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, on " Something Sigmund Freud, but do not know what "on the analysis of a soda can for the estimation of energy requirements in their production, a skilled work of Friedrich Doeleke on Hermann Jellinek's work Critical History of the revolution in Vienna from 13 March to Constituent Reichstag (Vienna, 1848) and " Nothing else. A few newspapers. All nothing. "
Reviews
In pure GOLD the myths that the composer Wagner had appropriated would, critical of capitalism associated with the current present and its realities in which Wotan an argument extractor with his Marxist daughter Brünnhilde, so Tim Caspar Boehme in his review for the taz. Jelinek entrepreneurial thereby changing the media from music to text. Boehme has impressed Jelinek's contribution to the Wagner 2013.
Ina Hartwig pure GOLD reviewed for the time and writes that it is going in this work, the offering for our productive thinking, not only about the rule of money, but also about the man. Unusual finds the reviewer how new hate songs in the context of the murders of NSU with the mutual blaming and Ankeifen of Brünnhilde and Wotan would be combined, and encourages you to read the book, a sparkling impertinence.
Judith Stern Burg writes in her review of " The Lair of the Niegelungenen ", which was published in the Frankfurter Rundschau that Jelinek in pure GOLD the German tendency to heroism and greed take on the grain. The author try with Wagner's massive way to explain the world to emulate, but do not achieve quite the same eye level. The music lacks and this lesser power stroke. Jelinek extend the reviewer 's view, pure GOLD by the epic details, caricature Wagner's Ring cycle.
Output
Pure GOLD. a stage- essay. 223 S., Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-03339-2
Urlesung
When Urlesung in Munich's Prince Regent Theatre on July 1, 2012, the division of the text was made live, sample there were previously none. The 133 pages of the text were counted down on the display panel. Nicolas Stemann had announced to the parties the performance as "a great ( music ) theatrical jam session " with actors, four singers, a vocal coach and a symphony orchestra. When reciting also singing, silent reading, computer voice or video only should be possible. In this case, not all would be constantly in action. The doors remained open during the show and the audience could come and go as they wished. Stemann wanted to use in this way a theatrical energy of " lostness, confusion and panic," draws on, and which he considers to be good. Were faded in the interim results of the final of the European Football Championship in 2012 and from the stage was the game that took place in Kiev to pursue on a television screen. Overall Stemann was that the audience can see how the ensemble " deal and live in the moment with the text".
Music Theatre
The Berlin State Opera takes pure GOLD as " musical theater of Nicolas Stemann " "with music by Wagner and other" into their programs, premiere was on 9 March 2014.