Das frühexpressionistische "Gesamtkunstwerk" als Traumspiel bei Kokoschka, Pappenheim und Schönberg

Both Kokoschka's Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen and Schoenberg's operas Erwartung (libretto: Marie Pappenheim) and Die glückliche Hand take up Wagner's concept of a "Total Work of Art". Their myth elaborates on the tragic antagonism of the sexes according to turn-of-the-century psychological theories, replacing Wagner's mythological drama by a dream play. While they widen the dramaturgical and medial dimensions, they paradoxically reduce and concentrate the plot along the lines of a one-act play. The three works develop different models for integrating the semiotic systems into a "Total Work of Art". [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]