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ELASTIZITÄT - JENNIFER HAM GEBUNDEN

Frequenting circuses in Paris and Berlin  Frank Wedekind  best known for Spring Awakening and
the Lulu plays  learned that trapeze artists and tightrope walkers rely on different artificial
reference points in space  in order to maintain their balance and orient themselves and to
create their own sensorial and phenomenal worlds. This lesson in radical perspectivism and
constructivism is a key to Wedekind's practice as a playwright  and it links the Munich
dramatist's work to the thought of Schopenhauer  who first used the term Elastizität in a
philosophical sense  Darwin  who considered adaptability to be a primordial characteristic of
life  Nietzsche  whose commentary on acrobats in Also sprach Zarathustra announces the Overman
and Freud  who used the term to describe the reactive  conservative nature of the instincts.
Taking Elastizität and the modern notion of adaptability as its point of departure  this book
explores Wedekind's construction of space  movement and character in his plays  pantomimes 
ballets and theoretical writings as a means of understanding both the structural consistencies
and the ideological incongruities that permeate his fiction and nearly all layers of his works.
This work also disengages Wedekind from traditional discussions of the dramatist as
controversial social critic and reintroduces him into more productive discussions of his
connection to nineteenth-century philosophical debates surrounding determinism  dualism and
perception  on the one hand  and modern notions of risk  danger and precarity on the other.

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