Kaiser Georg: Građani Calaisa

Name: Građani Calaisa
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Author: Kaiser Georg

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Author: Kaiser Georg
Publisher: Ex Libris
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Code: 66965

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Građani Calaisa

Kaiser Georg

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Georg Kaiser: Citizens of Calais

The three-act play Citizens of Calais, created in the year when world history began to be changed by the tragedy of the First World War, is an exemplary example of an expressionist drama in which the central theme is the birth and arrival of the New Man of the future. At the same time, the self-sacrifice of an isolated individual is completely understandable and expected, because he, as a deep-thinking personality, must be able to act, and he acts by opposing the expected, established, traditional and conservative concepts of heroism, patriotism, collective honor and pride. The idea that governs the activities of the New Man is pacifism, and it, in addition to the fundamental rejection of any aggression and physical resistance, includes a true renewal of humanistic ideals that arises as a result of questioning the human conscience and a deep conviction in the need for spiritual transformation of man (love for one's neighbor, altruism, empathy, morality of concrete actions, responsibility before oneself and others, protection of people and their actions from destruction...). The external context of concrete historical changes and the increasingly bloody news from the battlefields only strengthened the conceptual premises of expressionist desires, and Kaiser became one of the most famous and most read/watched playwrights of his generation. Even today, his play Citizens of Calais is required reading in German schools. Created on the basis of historical data about the Hundred Years' War (the medieval Chronicles of Jean Froissart), but also under the influence of the meaning and symbolism of Rodin's famous sculpture about the six self-sacrificing citizens of the occupied French city of Calais, Kaiser's play is not a historical play about siege and surrender, about military superiority and the ultimatum of the English King Edward III, but it is a play that, using the described historical episode, tries to establish a new conceptual paradigm of human behavior and thinking in the conditions of the general collapse of the world order.

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