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Schirrmacher, B. (2016). Musical Performance and Textual Performativity in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher. Dansk Musikforskning Online, 85-99
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Musical Performance and Textual Performativity in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher
2016 (English)In: Dansk Musikforskning Online, E-ISSN 1904-237X, p. 85-99Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article deals with the question of how literary narration may be enriched or challenged by referring to musical performance in the plot. It will be argued that narrated performance is a means to highlight aspects of language that are dependent on bodily presence. Referring to the performer in the narrative draws attention to how the narrating text itself performs, stages, and presents.

These questions are highly relevant when discussing Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher (Die Klavierspielerin, 1983). The article explores the way how intermedial references to musical performance in the diegesis interact with the self-referential performativity of Jelinek’s prose. The novel’s protagonist, Erika Kohut, is a pianist and piano teacher and many intermedial references to music highlight the bodily strain to produce music by means of violent metaphors. These metaphors relate performance of music to the protagonist’s deviant sexual behavior.

Erika Kohut’s disturbed sexuality thus reveals something more than a perverted individual. In the text, her actions in the diegesis reveal a performative connection to what is discussed in literary discourse. Thus, the novel not only points out its criticism on how music has been instrumentalized, but the narrative plot also gains the performative ability to actually do what usually is said about music. Intermedial reference to musical performance connected with violence thus appears as a means to increase the performative impact of the literary text.

 

Keywords
Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher, Performativity, Performance, Music, Intermediality, Die Klavierspielerin, Intermedialität, Performanz, Performativität, Musik
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-139033 (URN)
Projects
The Common Ground of Violence and Music in Literature
Note

This article was written with financial support of the foundation Sven and Dagmar Salén Stiftelsen.

Available from: 2017-02-01 Created: 2017-02-01 Last updated: 2024-04-12Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B. (2016). Mute Performances: Ekphrasis of Music and Performative Aesthetics in Eyvind Johnson’s Romantisk berättelse. In: Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart (Ed.), Silence and Absence in Literature and Music: (pp. 102-116). Leiden: Rodopi
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mute Performances: Ekphrasis of Music and Performative Aesthetics in Eyvind Johnson’s Romantisk berättelse
2016 (English)In: Silence and Absence in Literature and Music / [ed] Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart, Leiden: Rodopi, 2016, p. 102-116Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This article discusses a peculiar kind of ‘mute’ musical performance that features in Romantisk berättelse (1953, ‘Romantic Tale’) of the Swedish Nobel Prize Laureate Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976). Here, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 57, the Appassionata, appears not as an experience of sound but mainly as a visual experience of the pianist’s moving limbs, as they are perceived by a young working-class writer, Olle. Olle sees himself excluded from a musical community; this feeling of alienation results in deliberately non-acoustic descriptions of musical performance, where it is not primarily the sound, but the performer’s bodily presence that is stressed. Yet such absence of sound should not only be understood as some kind of deficit. By writing a performative ‘mute’ ekphrasis, Johnson deliberately questions the ideas of the transcendence of instrumental music as well as its alleged status as a universal language.

 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Leiden: Rodopi, 2016
Series
Word and Music Studies, ISSN 1566-0958 ; 15
Keywords
Music, Performance, Ekphrasis, Word and Music Studies, Intermediality, Appassionata, Beethoven, Eyvind Johnson, Romantisk berättelse, ekfras, intermedialitet, musik
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-139034 (URN)10.1163/9789004314863_007 (DOI)978-90-04-31485-6 (ISBN)978-90-04-31486-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2017-02-01 Created: 2017-02-01 Last updated: 2023-03-02Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B. (2015). Günter Grass intermedial: Text zwischen Bild und Klang. In: Stolz, Dieter (Ed.), Freipass.: Schriften der Günter und Ute Grass Stiftung. Band 1 (pp. 221-233). Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Günter Grass intermedial: Text zwischen Bild und Klang
2015 (German)In: Freipass.: Schriften der Günter und Ute Grass Stiftung. Band 1 / [ed] Stolz, Dieter, Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2015, p. 221-233Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2015
Keywords
Intermediality, Günter Grass, Too Far Afield, literature, image, music, Günter Grass, Ein weites Feld, Intermedialitet, Text, Bild, Musik, Bilderbogen
National Category
Specific Literatures
Research subject
Literature; German
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-117960 (URN)978-3-86153-827-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-06-08 Created: 2015-06-08 Last updated: 2022-02-23Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B. (2015). Intermediale Fragestellungen: Workshopbericht. In: Elfriede Jelinek: "Es ist Sprechen und aus".. Paper presented at Elfriede Jelinek. "Es ist Sprechen und aus". Interdisziplinärer Workshop für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, 30.-31.10.2014, Universität Wien (pp. 279-287). Wien: Praesens Verlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Intermediale Fragestellungen: Workshopbericht
2015 (German)In: Elfriede Jelinek: "Es ist Sprechen und aus"., Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2015, p. 279-287Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2015
Series
Jelinek (Jahr)Buch, ISSN 2078-5917 ; 2014/2015
Keywords
intermediality, music, film, radio play, The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek, Intermedialität, Musik, Film, Hörspiel, Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel), Die Klavierspielerin
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Literature; German
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-127276 (URN)978-3-7069-0853-5 (ISBN)
Conference
Elfriede Jelinek. "Es ist Sprechen und aus". Interdisziplinärer Workshop für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, 30.-31.10.2014, Universität Wien
Available from: 2016-03-01 Created: 2016-03-01 Last updated: 2022-02-23Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B. (2015). Några tonsteg mot tystnaden. : Musik i Eyvind Johnsons Romantisk berättelse. In: Johansson, Christer; Lindström, Anders (Ed.), Omvägar till sanningen. : Nya Perspektiv på Eyvind Johnsons författarskap, (pp. 67-85). Höör: Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Några tonsteg mot tystnaden. : Musik i Eyvind Johnsons Romantisk berättelse
2015 (Swedish)In: Omvägar till sanningen. : Nya Perspektiv på Eyvind Johnsons författarskap, / [ed] Johansson, Christer; Lindström, Anders, Höör: Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag, 2015, p. 67-85Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Höör: Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag, 2015
Keywords
Intermediality, word and music studies, Marcel Proust, Eyvind Johnson, Selma Lagerlöf, autodidactic writers, Intermedialitet, Eyvind Johnson, Romantisk berättelse, Litteratur, Musik, Selma Lagerlöf, Marcel Proust, arbetarförfattare
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-117959 (URN)9789187483141 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-06-08 Created: 2015-06-08 Last updated: 2022-02-23Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B. (2015). Störfaktor Medium: Fernsehen, Video und Internet bei Günter Grass. In: Charlotta Seiler Brylla, Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (Ed.), Sendbote zwischen den Kulturen : Gustav Korlén und die germanistische Tradition an der Universität Stockholm (pp. 275-288). Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Störfaktor Medium: Fernsehen, Video und Internet bei Günter Grass
2015 (German)In: Sendbote zwischen den Kulturen : Gustav Korlén und die germanistische Tradition an der Universität Stockholm / [ed] Charlotta Seiler Brylla, Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2015, p. 275-288Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [de]

Günter Grass weist immer wieder auf eine manipulierte mediale Wiedergabe der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse hin. Wie erklärt es sich aber, dass in vielen seiner Romane inhaltlich kritisierte Medien eine entscheidende strukturelle Rolle spielen? Ob der Fernsehbildschirm in örtlich betäubt(1969), Videos in der Rättin(1986) oderdas Internet in Im Krebsgang(2002) –Grass bezieht häufig die Technik des im Aufsteigen begriffenen gesellschaftlichen Leitme-diums in die Struktur seiner Romane mit ein. Aber gerade durch Hervorhe-bung der technischen Vermittlung erscheinen Medien nicht als durchlässige Vermittler der Wirklichkeit. Der Leser wird stattdessen auf die Beeinflussung durch mediale Vermittlung aufmerksam gemacht.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2015
Series
Stockholmer germanistische Forschungen, ISSN 0491-0893 ; 80
Keywords
Intermediality, paspresenture, television, video, internet, The Rat, Local Aenaesthetic, Crabwalk, Günter Grass, Intermedialität, Vergegenkunft, Fernsehen, Video, Internet, Die Rättin, Örtlich betäubt, Im Krebsgang
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Literature; German
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-127275 (URN)978-91-981947-9-1 (ISBN)978-91-981947-8-4 (ISBN)
Available from: 2016-03-01 Created: 2016-03-01 Last updated: 2022-02-23Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B., Hart, H., Heady, K. & Hinz, H. (Eds.). (2014). Ideology in Words and Music: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum Stockholm, November 8–10, 2012. Paper presented at 2nd Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum Stockholm, November 8–10, 2012. Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ideology in Words and Music: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum Stockholm, November 8–10, 2012
2014 (English)Conference proceedings (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2014. p. 181
Series
Stockholmer germanistische Forschungen, ISSN 0491-0893 ; 79
Keywords
Intermediality, Word and Music Studies, Literature, Musicology, Aesthetics, intermedialitet, estetik, litteraturvetenskap, musikvetenskap
National Category
Musicology General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-106825 (URN)978-91-981947-1-5 (ISBN)978-91-981947-0-8 (ISBN)
Conference
2nd Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum Stockholm, November 8–10, 2012
Available from: 2014-08-22 Created: 2014-08-22 Last updated: 2022-02-23Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B. (2014). The Common Grounds of Music and Violence: Depicting Violence in Literature with Intermedial References to Music. In: Beate Schirrmacher, Heidi Hart, Kayt Heady, Hannah Hinz (Ed.), Ideolgy in Words and Music: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum Stockholm, November 8–10, 2012 (pp. 141-154). Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Common Grounds of Music and Violence: Depicting Violence in Literature with Intermedial References to Music
2014 (English)In: Ideolgy in Words and Music: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum Stockholm, November 8–10, 2012 / [ed] Beate Schirrmacher, Heidi Hart, Kayt Heady, Hannah Hinz, Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2014, p. 141-154Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Intermedial references to music in 20th century literature often appear in narrations of WWII and of the Shoah. However, the connection between music and violence is not restricted to this historical context alone. The connection of classical music with violence appears as a transmedial topos. This recurring association between music and violence mirrors the fact that music, far from being absolute and pure form, is frequently used to ideological ends, as an instrument of power and even of torture. This conflict can be traced in the structure of intermedial references to music, e.g. in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962), in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin (1983), as well as in other texts. In the following, I will present some shared characteristics of the different ways in which music has been linked to violence within literature. As intermediality appears to be founded on similarities, I will explore the question of whether this recurrent, transmedial connection of music and violence depends on common denominators in the way we perceive music and violence. The fact that critics and scholars mostly fail to notice the affinity of violence and music, appears to be due to ideological presumptions concerning classical music.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2014
Series
Stockholmer germanistische Forschungen, ISSN 0491-0893 ; 79
Keywords
Intermediality, Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Player, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, LiteratureWord and Music Studies, Violence, Die Klavierspielerin, Intermedialität, Literaturwissenschaft
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Aesthetics; Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-106824 (URN)978-91-981947-1-5 (ISBN)978-91-981947-0-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-08-22 Created: 2014-08-22 Last updated: 2022-02-23Bibliographically approved
Schirrmacher, B. (2013). Glaube Hoffnung Liebe – Das Kapitel einer Un-Heilsgeschichte in der Blechtrommel. In: Anselm Weyer, Volker Neuhaus (Ed.), Von Katz und Maus und mea culpa: Religiöse Motive im Werk von Günter Grass (pp. 161-178). Germany: Peter Lang Publishing Group
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Glaube Hoffnung Liebe – Das Kapitel einer Un-Heilsgeschichte in der Blechtrommel
2013 (German)In: Von Katz und Maus und mea culpa: Religiöse Motive im Werk von Günter Grass / [ed] Anselm Weyer, Volker Neuhaus, Germany: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013, p. 161-178Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [de]

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Auseinandersetzung des Kapitels „Glaube Hoffnung Liebe“ in der Blechtrommel mit Paulus’ Hohelied der Liebe aus 1. Kor.13, auf das der Titel anspielt. Deutlich ist, dass Oskar die Novemberpogrome unter anderem als eine moralische Bankrotterklärung des Christentums gestaltet. Wie dies jedoch im Kapitel durchgeführt wird, lässt sich erst unter Berücksichtigung der Struktur des Kapitels erschließen, besonders der transmedialen Gemeinsamkeit mit musikalischen Strukturen. Oskars Kritik wird hier wie anderswo, performativ durchgeführt, d.h. er inszeniert das, was er anprangert. Die Heilsgeschichte des Christentums wird somit zur Un-Heilsgeschichte eines profanierten 1000jährigen Reiches. Nicht nur die Grundtugenden aus 1. Kor.13, sondern auch das christliche Sakrament des Abendmahls, das Paulus in 1.Kor.11. in als Gedächtnismahrzeit installiert, wird gegenständlich inszeniert und in sein Gegenteil verkehrt: Aus dem Erinnerungsritual der Sündenvergebung durch den Opfertod des Erlösers wird eine kannibalistische Teilhabe der gesamten Bevölkerung am Tod von Millionen in Auschwitz.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Germany: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Series
Kölner Studien zur Literaturwissenschaft, ISSN 0935-5669 ; 19
Keywords
German Literature, Günter Grass, Intermediality, Word and Music studies, The Tin Drum, Bibel 1rst Corinthians, Germanistik, Literaturwissenschaft, Intermedialität, Günter Grass, word and music studies, Die Blechtrommel, Religion, Korinterbrief
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
German; Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-106823 (URN)10.3726/978-3-653-02056-4/14 (DOI)978-3-631-62632-0 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-08-22 Created: 2014-08-22 Last updated: 2022-09-22Bibliographically approved
Grote, M., Henjum, K. B., Ingebrigtsen, E., Pietzuch, J. P., Pietzuch, A. & Schirrmacher, B. (2013). Perspektiven: Das IX. Nordisch-Baltische Germanistentreffen in Os/Bergen, 14.-16. Juni 2012. Paper presented at Das IX. Nordisch-Baltische Germanistentreffen in Os/Bergen, 14.-16. Juni 2012. Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Perspektiven: Das IX. Nordisch-Baltische Germanistentreffen in Os/Bergen, 14.-16. Juni 2012
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2013 (German)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [de]

Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge des IX.Nordisch-Baltischen Germanistentreffens, das vom14. bis 16. Juni 2012 im Konferenzhotel Solstrandin Os, ca. 30 Kilometer südlich von Bergen amBjørnafjord gelegen, stattfand. 19 Jahre nach demdritten Treffen des Nordischen Germanistenverbandesin Oslo 1993 lud der seit 2002 auch die baltischenGermanistiken repräsentierende Nordisch-BaltischeGermanistenverband mit dem NBGT 2012 zum zweitenMal nach Norwegen ein. Die Dokumentation bildetdie thematische Struktur der Konferenz ab und zeigtin vier Sektionen mit jeweils literatur-, sprach-, lehr-/lern- und kulturwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt diethematische, methodische und theoretische Vielfaltder nordisch-baltischen Germanistik auf.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2013. p. 600
Series
Stockholmer germanistische Forschungen, ISSN 0491-0893 ; 78
Keywords
Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Germanic Languages, German Language, Bilingualism, Linguistics, litteraturvetenskap, språkvetenskap, germanistik, tyska språket, tvåspråkighet, lingvistik
National Category
General Literature Studies General Language Studies and Linguistics Specific Languages
Research subject
German; Linguistics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-100586 (URN)978-91-87235-58-0 (ISBN)978-91-87235-57-3 (ISBN)
Conference
Das IX. Nordisch-Baltische Germanistentreffen in Os/Bergen, 14.-16. Juni 2012
Available from: 2014-02-07 Created: 2014-02-07 Last updated: 2022-05-20Bibliographically approved
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