By David F. Kuhns
German Expressionist Theatre considers the powerfully stylized, antirealistic types of symbolic performing on the German Expressionist level from 1916 to 1921. It relates this awesome departure from the dominant ecu appearing culture of realism to the explicit cultural crises that enveloped the German state throughout the process its involvement in international conflict I. The exam of parts of formerly untranslated Expressionist scripts and actor memoirs makes it possible for an unheard of specialise in description and research of the appearing itself.
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The importance of this conception as a legacy to Expressionism is evident in that every type of Expressionist performance drew upon the non-representational model of music. However, Schopenhauer's significance for the Expressionist theatre is also clear in what he has to say about the Will's expression of itself in the human body and in human character: The act of will and the movement of the body are not two different things objectively known, which the bond of causality unites; they do not stand in the relation of cause and effect; they are one and the same .
This rejection occurred, argued Worringer, because the particular "will to form" in both primitive times and the age of Modernity stands opposed to empirical reality and its materialist differentiations. In these epochs, the forms into which subjectivity wills itself bond humankind in a symbolically abstract, non-materialist, and hence "spiritual" art. For the Expressionists, rejection of mimesis defined their generation in terms of a collective subjectivity whose particular "artistic volition" emerged as a will to resist the authoritarian materialism of Wilhelmine culture.
Since the inception of the Modern era, the theatre critic has exercised great influence in establishing the terms and standards by which a culture defines the significance of its theatrical activity. As John Willett has pointed out in his fine study of Weimar theatre, this 42 German Expressionist Theatre: the Actor and the Stage was particularly true of the German press in the late Wilhelmine and Republican eras. Many of these critics were accomplished dramaturges, directors, and actors; therefore they spoke with authority and sophistication on matters of theatrical production.