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Dichtung und Wahnsinn: Der Fall Lukrez

Aufsatz von Dorothea Weber

Abstract

There are only few examples from Greco-Roman antiquity that provide evidence that a physical defect and particular artistic ability were thought to coincide in a compensatory way. They regard figures of myth or a mythologically shaped past. A unique case is the poet-philosopher Lucretius (1st century BC), who was attested insanity in the biographical tradition. Primarily, though not exclusively, this narrative reveals a clearly polemical orientation. However, it can also be understood in the context of the idea that a poet who lacks the power of his senses opens himself up to divine inspiration precisely because of this supposed shortcoming.

Über die Autorin: Dorothea Weber, Universität Salzburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Dorothea Weber: „Dichtung und Wahnsinn : Der Fall Lukrez“ , in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 303-317, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_11, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4834>

Zur Inszenierung körperlicher Defizite als Manifestation poetischer Potenz in Ulrichs von Liechtenstein ‘Frauendienst’

Aufsatz von Ronny F. Schulz

Abstract

This essay deals with the mise-en-scène of art and disability in Ulrich von Liechtenstein’s Frauendienst, a fictional autobiography from around 1250. The operation of a cleft lip of the first-person narrator and the cutting off of a finger in the service of his lady are read against the background of various discourses. It turns out that the medical topic is transformed into a poetological discourse: The physical infirmity is, e.g., idealized and aestheticized when the truncated finger is included into a golden book cover. In thematizing disability, however, it also becomes clear that the poet’s sufferings make him distinguishable from the sufferings of others and that he ultimately finds a unique characteristic in his suffering.

Über den Autor: Ronny F. Schulz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Ronny F. Schulz: „Zur Inszenierung körperlicher Defizite als Manifestation poetischer Potenz in Ulrichs von Liechtenstein ‘Frauendienst’“ , in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 279-302, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_10, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4828>

„Ich war ja nicht krank – ich war nur krank, aber ganz anders“. Ingeborg Bachmanns (Patho?-)Texte

Aufsatz von Marlen Mairhofer

Abstract

This article examines the ongoing literary construction of Ingeborg Bachmann as a ‘sick poet’ and then asks whether – or how – her texts can be read as patho-texts without focusing on the author’s biography. In posthumously published texts („Male Oscuro“) Bachmann attempts to rewrite the narrative of the sick woman by claiming her symptoms as an individual expression of artistic value. In Malina, the relationships between the protagonists are negotiated in metaphors of infection, the mode of viral transmission thus becoming an essential motivic and narrative principle. To illustrate the intricate entanglement of body politics, subjectivity, and power of definition, this essay refers to the philosopher Paul B. Preciado. His theory of the “pharmapornographic regime” describes the development of a pharmaceutical-pornographic apparatus of control that no longer acts only from the outside, but from within the individual’s body.

Über die Autorin: Marlen Mairhofer, Universität Salzburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Marlen Mairhofer: „Ich war ja nicht krank – ich war nur krank, aber ganz anders“: Ingeborg Bachmanns (Patho?-)Texte, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 175-189, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_6, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4763>

Kranke Künstler. Das kreative Potential körperlicher Leiden in der Frühen Neuzeit

Aufsatz von Jana Graul

Abstract

How did early modern artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini and Hendrick Goltzius deal with physical ailments? How did they perceive their illnesses? Did they portray themselves as sick? Did lack of recognition affect their health? And were there such things as occupational diseases and accidents at work? This article deals with the subject of physical illness among Italian, German and Dutch artists from the 15th through the 17th centuries. It examines how they thematized and reflected on their illnesses in images and texts; what significance they themselves, art theory, but also society attached to infirmity; what coping strategies can be discerned and in which way physical impairments affected the creation of artworks or were associated with them. The analysis thereby focuses on the stylization, staging and topicality of these written and visual sources. The aim of this study is to show that, instead of being merely a destructive force that drains creative power, the state of illness can likewise function as a moment of empowerment, a source of inspiration that boosts the artist’s creative output and underlines his heroic nature.

Über die Autorin: Jana Graul, Universität Hamburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Jana Graul: „Kranke Künstler. Das kreative Potential körperlicher Leiden in der Frühen Neuzeit“, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 75-135, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_4, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4710>

Buckel, Blutsturz und das tägliche Befinden. Widerständige Körperlichkeit im Zeitalter der Autonomie (Lichtenberg, Schiller, Stifter)

Aufsatz von Daniel Ehrmann

Abstract

Vitality is a main aspect of literature since the 18th century. The new conception of literature as art, that was developed around 1770, also changed the notion of the poet, who act as a ‘second maker’ and creates works of art as an effigy of himself. Not all and even some of the most famous authors between 1750 and 1850 fit this very influential depiction. The paper presents reasons for that in the historical context and explores some of the consequences. It lays out the frictions between the notion of autonomous production and the actual limitations imposed on it by the bodies that have to execute it.

Über den Autor: Daniel Ehrmann, Universität Wien

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Daniel Ehrmann: „Buckel, Blutsturz und das tägliche Befinden. Widerständige Körperlichkeit im Zeitalter der Autonomie (Lichtenberg, Schiller, Stifter)“, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 41-73, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_3, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4696>