Seán Allan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seán Allan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seán |
| FAMILY NAME | Allan |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9524-5603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wer Ich Bin, Erfährst Du Nicht!’
The figure of Don Juan/Don Giovanni provided directors working across a range of media in the GDR with an opportunity to appropriate canonical literary models and shape them in accordance with the needs of the fledgling socialist state. The Berliner Ensemble's 1952/54 adaptation of Molière's Dom Juan and Walter Felsenstein's 1966 production of Mozart's Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni for the Komische Oper reflect two diametrically oppo…
Ivanova, Mariana. Cinema of Collaboration
Envisioning Socialism
In recent years a number of important studies of East German television have emerged, many of them resulting from the extensive work carried out by the team associated with the research project ‘Programmgeschichte des DDR-Fernsehens’ sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. These include Thomas Beutelschmidt’s study of the interaction between film and television in the GDR, Kooperation oder Konkurrenz? Das Verhältnis zwischen Film und Fe…
Introduction. Heinrich von Kleist
Sagt, wie soll man Stalin danken?’ Kurt Maetzig's Ehe im Schatten (1947), Roman einer Jungen Ehe (1952) and the Cultural Politics of Post‐War Germany
In Ehe im Schatten and Roman einer jungen Ehe Kurt Maetzig analyses the role of the artist and the changing conceptualisation of aesthetics at two contrasting moments of political crisis. Set during the Third Reich, Ehe im Schatten criticises any attempt to separate art and politics, and exposes the limitations of bourgeois classical drama as a form of political resistance. But despite its radical subject‐matter, the film's melodramatic format hi…
Revolutionary Aesthetics? Kleist, 1968, and the New German Cinema
This essay analyses the particular appeal of Kleist's work for the filmmakers of the New German Cinema movement in the Federal Republic during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both Volker Schlöndorff's Kohlhaas – der Rebell (1968) and Hans‐Jürgen Syberberg's San Domingo (1970) invite the spectator to view the student movement and the political events of 1968 through the prism of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas and Die Verlobung in St. Domingo . Although…
Screening War
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
Plays of Heinrich Von Kleist
Seit der Wende hat der Mann nur Pech gehabt. Jetzt soll er auch noch Jude sein”
(2007). “Seit der Wende hat der Mann nur Pech gehabt. Jetzt soll er auch noch Jude sein”: Theatricality, Memory and Identity in Dani Levy's Alles auf Zucker! (2004) Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 25-42
Defa
The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist
The literary oeuvre of the controversial writer of dramas and novellas Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) continues to fascinate scholars of German literature even today, nearly two centuries after his death by suicide. Over the years, disagreements among Kleist scholars have been so extreme that some have suggested that his work subverts the very process of interpretation. Sean Allan challenges this view and the related one of Kleist as a profound …
Defa
the lucid style of all contributions ...makes this volume an accessible read to students ...this volume has also the bonus of offering an excellent appendix on sources for future research ...this collection of essays illustrates precisely why the quality of DEFA film-making should not be confined to the archives of history. - Journal of European Areas Studies A useful appendix provides research sources. Written in clear prose, these essays should…
Auf einen Lasterhaften war ich gefaßt, aber auf keinen — Teufel
The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist
This is an accessible 1996 study of the plays of Kleist (1777–1811), who ranks with Goethe and Schiller amongst nineteenth-century authors and who has been a major influence on contemporary German writers. Seán Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic metaphysics, notably his suggestion that the pursuit of 'transcendent' ideals of perfection constitutes a formidable obstacle to genuine progress in hum…
Liederlichkeit, Spiel, Trunk, Faulheit Und Völlerei, Behalte Ich Mir Bevor’ Heinrich Von Kleist's Last Word on Modern Educational Theory
Sagt, wie soll man Stalin danken?’ Kurt Maetzig's Ehe im Schatten (1947), Roman einer Jungen Ehe (1952) and the Cultural Politics of Post‐War Germany
In Ehe im Schatten and Roman einer jungen Ehe Kurt Maetzig analyses the role of the artist and the changing conceptualisation of aesthetics at two contrasting moments of political crisis. Set during the Third Reich, Ehe im Schatten criticises any attempt to separate art and politics, and exposes the limitations of bourgeois classical drama as a form of political resistance. But despite its radical subject‐matter, the film's melodramatic format hi…
Seit der Wende hat der Mann nur Pech gehabt. Jetzt soll er auch noch Jude sein”
(2007). “Seit der Wende hat der Mann nur Pech gehabt. Jetzt soll er auch noch Jude sein”: Theatricality, Memory and Identity in Dani Levy's Alles auf Zucker! (2004) Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 25-42
Auf einen Lasterhaften war ich gefaßt, aber auf keinen — Teufel
Liederlichkeit, Spiel, Trunk, Faulheit Und Völlerei, Behalte Ich Mir Bevor’ Heinrich Von Kleist's Last Word on Modern Educational Theory
Liederlichkeit, Spiel, Trunk, Faulheit Und Völlerei, Behalte Ich Mir Bevor’ Heinrich Von Kleist's Last Word on Modern Educational Theory
The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist
This is an accessible 1996 study of the plays of Kleist (1777–1811), who ranks with Goethe and Schiller amongst nineteenth-century authors and who has been a major influence on contemporary German writers. Seán Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic metaphysics, notably his suggestion that the pursuit of 'transcendent' ideals of perfection constitutes a formidable obstacle to genuine progress in hum…
Auf einen Lasterhaften war ich gefaßt, aber auf keinen — Teufel
Defa
the lucid style of all contributions ...makes this volume an accessible read to students ...this volume has also the bonus of offering an excellent appendix on sources for future research ...this collection of essays illustrates precisely why the quality of DEFA film-making should not be confined to the archives of history. - Journal of European Areas Studies A useful appendix provides research sources. Written in clear prose, these essays should…
Defa
The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist
The literary oeuvre of the controversial writer of dramas and novellas Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) continues to fascinate scholars of German literature even today, nearly two centuries after his death by suicide. Over the years, disagreements among Kleist scholars have been so extreme that some have suggested that his work subverts the very process of interpretation. Sean Allan challenges this view and the related one of Kleist as a profound …
Seit der Wende hat der Mann nur Pech gehabt. Jetzt soll er auch noch Jude sein”
(2007). “Seit der Wende hat der Mann nur Pech gehabt. Jetzt soll er auch noch Jude sein”: Theatricality, Memory and Identity in Dani Levy's Alles auf Zucker! (2004) Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 25-42
Plays of Heinrich Von Kleist
Screening War
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
Introduction. Heinrich von Kleist
Sagt, wie soll man Stalin danken?’ Kurt Maetzig's Ehe im Schatten (1947), Roman einer Jungen Ehe (1952) and the Cultural Politics of Post‐War Germany
In Ehe im Schatten and Roman einer jungen Ehe Kurt Maetzig analyses the role of the artist and the changing conceptualisation of aesthetics at two contrasting moments of political crisis. Set during the Third Reich, Ehe im Schatten criticises any attempt to separate art and politics, and exposes the limitations of bourgeois classical drama as a form of political resistance. But despite its radical subject‐matter, the film's melodramatic format hi…
Revolutionary Aesthetics? Kleist, 1968, and the New German Cinema
This essay analyses the particular appeal of Kleist's work for the filmmakers of the New German Cinema movement in the Federal Republic during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both Volker Schlöndorff's Kohlhaas – der Rebell (1968) and Hans‐Jürgen Syberberg's San Domingo (1970) invite the spectator to view the student movement and the political events of 1968 through the prism of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas and Die Verlobung in St. Domingo . Although…
Envisioning Socialism
In recent years a number of important studies of East German television have emerged, many of them resulting from the extensive work carried out by the team associated with the research project ‘Programmgeschichte des DDR-Fernsehens’ sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. These include Thomas Beutelschmidt’s study of the interaction between film and television in the GDR, Kooperation oder Konkurrenz? Das Verhältnis zwischen Film und Fe…
Ivanova, Mariana. Cinema of Collaboration
Wer Ich Bin, Erfährst Du Nicht!’
The figure of Don Juan/Don Giovanni provided directors working across a range of media in the GDR with an opportunity to appropriate canonical literary models and shape them in accordance with the needs of the fledgling socialist state. The Berliner Ensemble's 1952/54 adaptation of Molière's Dom Juan and Walter Felsenstein's 1966 production of Mozart's Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni for the Komische Oper reflect two diametrically oppo…
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