Summary
Arnolt Bronnen: Parricide: Drama
Arnolt Bronnen entered the spotlight as a controversial writer who created strong scenes in which eroticism and violence are mixed, and this is clearly demonstrated by his first play Vatermord (Paricide, 1920). It is a one-act play that thematizes the characteristic place of expressionist poetics - the conflict between father and son as a conflict between generations, old and new, traditional and revolutionary, conservative and free-spirited, rigid and progressive... just as Sorge in The Beggar and Hasenclever in The Son did before Bronen (about them, see books 2 and 3 in this edition). Everything that has been said about the conflict between father and son in these dramas can also be transferred to Bronnen's work: the son is the spokesperson of the new generation who, dissatisfied with the current situation, strives to change interpersonal relations and freedom of action, the right to make one's own choice and the possibility of unconditional decision-making about one's destiny. In its best and paradigmatic editions, which is certainly this play by Bronen, expressionism in German theater was a sincere attempt to critically examine the social and political position of man and his intellectual and emotional state.
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