Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 20 (2014/2015): Das Geistliche Spiel des europäischen Spätmittelalters

Edited by Wernfried Hofmeister Edited by Cora Dietl With Astrid Böhm

Book cover: Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Hardback (Published)

(October 2015)

ISBN: 9783954900930

5.87 x 8.31 inches

Price: $104.00

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PDF (Published)

(January 2015)

ISBN: 9783954906093

Price: $87.00

In recent years, the presentation and communication of contents of faith that are valuable to create identities through the audio-visual media of theatre, at a time when there was hardly any other kind of ‘mass media’, has received increasing attention. The present volume, which collects the results of a symposium of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Society, draws conclusions from current scholarship dealing with religious plays, and it extends the results by using a distinctively interdisciplinary perspective. The papers consider media, performance and language aspects of the plays as well as their social, institutional, regional, and religious or political contexts. <br/>


Die Prasentation und identitatsstiftende Vermittlung von Glaubensinhalten im audiovisuellen Medium des Theaters zu einer Zeit, als es noch kaum andere Massenmedien’ gab, hat in den letzten Jahren ein zunehmendes Interesse erfahren. Der vorliegende Band, Ergebnis einer Tagung der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, zieht Bilanzen der jungsten Forschungstatigkeiten zum Geistlichen Spiel und entwickelt die Ergebnisse unter einer dezidiert interdisziplinaren Perspektive weiter. Mediale, performative und sprachliche Aspekte der Spiele werden ebenso berucksichtigt wie ihre sozialen, institutionellen, regionalen und religionspolitischen Kontexte.

Wernfried Hofmeister ( b . 1956) was appointed Professor in Germanic Medieval Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz after his habilitation for German Language and Older German Literature in 1995. His teaching and research interests comprise— embedded in questions of scholarly edition—the regional literature of medieval Styria, the late medieval authors Hugo von Montfort and Oswald von Wolkenstein and generally Era overarching themes resp. Motifs of literature, culture, and linguistics. As head of the archive of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft in Graz he runs as a board member of this association and since 2014 he acts as chairman of the Committee on the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Germanistische Edition.<br/><br/>Cora Dietl (b. 1967) received her degrees as Dr. phil. and Dr. phil. habil. at the University of Giessen, with a thesis on German courtly romance, and early humanist Drama in South West Germany respectively. Since 2006, she holds the chair for the history of German literature at the University of Giessen. Her major fields of research are Arthurian literature, and late medieval and early modern theatre. In 2013 she was appointed international president of the Société internationale pour l’étude du théâtre médiéval, and from 2007–15 she was treasurer of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Society.<br/><br/>

  • Edited by Wernfried Hofmeister
  • Edited by Cora Dietl
  • With Astrid Böhm