'. mera ossa et cadavera' : Studien zum Jesuitentheater in Jülich-Berg ; Ravenstein und Aachen (1601

Autor/Urheber	Pohle; Frank
Titel	'. mera ossa et cadavera' : Studien zum Jesuitentheater in Jülich-Berg ; Ravenstein und Aachen (1601 - 1817)
Quelle	Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University (2006) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	deutsch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Jesuiten / Niederrheinische Provinz; Jesuitenliteratur; Jesuitendrama; Drama; Aachen; Aachen / Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium; Jülich Jülich / Gymnasium Zitadelle; Münstereifel; Masen; Jacob; Erziehung; Schul- und Bildungswesen; Sankt-Michael-Gymnasium Bad Münstereifel; Schauspiel; Jesuit theatre
Abstract	"Mera ossa et cadavera" ; just bones and bodies are his tragedies ; if they are not performed on stage but presented merely in dead letters between the cover of a book ; free from any impersonation of the word and without a living realization of the author's visions. That is what Fr. Nikolaus Avancini SJ wrote down in 1675 in the preface to the Cologne edition of his collected plays. "Mera ossa et cadavera" are as well the testimonies and sources that remained of the school performances of Jesuit schools in the Rhineland: The theatres are destroyed ; only few texts survived ; testimonies for the musical side of the plays are lost ; stage designs do not exist ; and in most cases even the authors of the plays cannot be named for sure. Nevertheless ; Jesuit theatre was an extraordinarily fruitful event: Wherever in Germany the Jesuits were asked for teaching ; they integrated theatre in the education of the future Catholic elites as well as in the apostolate of their order. They established school theatre as part of their pedagogical and rhetorical practice and performed their plays in a quantity and continuity that is absolutely outstanding in the history of literature. In many places ; school theatre offered the only regularly performed dramas and formed thus the literary taste of generations. In spite of a long and fruitful history of research ; fundamental deficits still exist ; especially with regard to Jesuit theatre in the northern and north-western regions of Germany: The most important research concerning particular schools and school theatres has been done before the First World War ; major sources ; e.g. the annual reports in the Jesuit Archives in Rome ; have not been studied consequently. The present thesis tries to fill these gaps of research. Its innovative effort is moreover to study the Jesuit theatre production in its various ; widespread remains and to compare different schools and their theatre in a detailed manner instead of focusing the view on the "important" dramatists or poetological developments and their verification on some examples. It asks for "art forms" of this theatre ; for its basis in school ; for its effects on the audience ; for the importance of the plays for the development of Christian denominations and furthermore for differences with regard to time (periodization) and space (periphery and centre ; city and countryside). One major focus of the thesis lies – due to the sources – on the last 100 years of Jesuit school theatre ; and therefore on a period that has been widely neglected in science. The study is situated in a very concrete territorial frame – the Imperial city of Aachen ; the Duchy of Jülich-Berg and the Barony of Ravenstein ; closely connected with the latter. The academy of Aachen was one of the most important schools in the Jesuit Provincia Rheni inferioris and the school at Düsseldorf was of a certain importance because of its connections to the ducal court ; whereas the school at Ravenstein was one of the latest school foundations that began to work after 1750. The schools at Münstereifel ; Düren and Jülich were quite small or middling institutions which worked closely together with the important Jesuit College at Cologne. The thesis is positioned methodically as well as in its contents in the borderland of literature ; cultural and historical studies.
Anmerkungen	Aachen : Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University 740 S. (2006). = Aachen ; Techn. Hochsch. ; Diss. ; 2006
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