Medieval Literature on the Air
Johannes von Tepl’s Der Ackermann in Twentieth-Century Radio Adaptations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10498929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Schneider (0000-0001-9636-9766, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 212-237 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Seminar A Journal of Germanic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1939 • E-ISSN: 1911-026X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/seminar.52.2.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2405859616 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay explores the remediation of Johannes von Tepl’s Der Ackermann (ca. 1401) for radio. Since November 1924 at least thirty-one productions of von Tepl’s piece have been aired on various German radio stations. The reasons for the continued success of Der Ackermann in the medium of radio, particularly in the 1920s and after the Second World War, are twofold. In the context of the aesthetic debates in the 1920s on remediation, immediacy, and the appropriate form “word art” should take on the radio, von Tepl’s piece was considered the perfect radio play, or Hörspiel, paradoxically because of its un-play-like form: the focus on the word, the absence of plot, and its lack of scenic complexity. In addition, the radio adaptations of Der Ackermann served to embed this late medieval text in a culture of commemoration that was particularly vital in the 1920s and then again in the immediate post–Second World War years
Ackermann function · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · First world war · German · Humanities · Immediacy · Linguistics · Sociology · World War II · Classics · European Cultural and National Identity · German Literature and Culture Studies · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |