Felicitas Hoppe
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Fonte dell'immagine: Felicitas Hoppe at Leipzig Book Fair 2016 By Heike Huslage-Koch - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47685220
Opere di Felicitas Hoppe
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Chicago Review 58:1 (Summer 2013) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1960-12-22
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Germany
- Luogo di nascita
- Hameln, Germany
- Luogo di residenza
- Berlin, Germany
- Attività lavorative
- writer
- Organizzazioni
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Georg Büchner Preis (2012)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 170
- Popolarità
- #125,474
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 45
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 2
All this multi-media ambiguity — because Fritz Lang's 1924 silent film is always there in the mix as well — gives Hoppe the chance to toss around complicated thoughts about epic stories and their representations in culture, the way theatre and film work, and how it might feel to be stuck in the rigid logic of such a story.
But she's also looking at the oddities of this particular story and the characters in it. Was the personality of nordic action-maiden Brunhild actually based on Pippi Longstocking? Is everything really Siegfried's fault? How is it that the king of the Huns, Etzel (Atilla), has so little to do in the story? Was Kriemhild beautiful, evil, or both? How did a man from the Worms Rowing Club in a Woolworth's track-suit get mixed up in it all? Was the final showdown in Etzel's hall actually a cake-fight?
An interesting mix of the serious and the silly, which, whilst it doesn't attempt to deny that they matter too, goes out of its way to avoid getting bogged down in the most obvious discussion points (injustices of feudalism, blond-hero-cult, negative roles of women, cruelty to dragons and dwarves, the way the Nazis used the story, etc.). We are presumed to be aware of all that sort of thing, I suppose.… (altro)