H. C. ARTMANNs poetisches Theater
H. C. Artmann's Poetic Theatre

H. C. Artmann's Poetic Theatre

Summary/Abstract: The Austrian author H. C. Artmann is wellknown for his exotic texts and especially for his puns of words. The present study explores the dramatic texts, the so called “poetic theatre” that had been analysed very seldom. Artmann's theatre is due to its structure and items very close to the baroque literature, but has also similarities with surrealism and dadaism. The grotesque situations, present in his plays, can be identified as fantasy-plays, placed in exotic locations, with protagonists coming from the traditional theatre as Columbina or Pierrot, real persons as Lincoln or Jules Vernes, or fiction as Donald Duck or Dracula. The „poetic theatre“ is characterized by the mingling of different traditional poetic techniques with new elements, created by the author with the aim to find new ways of artistic expression.

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