The study proceeds on the following in his apprentice years (1963-1975) the young Botho Strauss (b. 1944) elaborated a poetics centering around historical theatre reality and focussing on a reflective linguistic critique of the ideologies and epistemologies operative between public and mass media in the context of the student revolution. The discussion traces the development of the student Botho Strauss with reference to examples of his narrative prose (1963), theatre criticism (1967-1970), and dramaturgic writing (1970-1975). In so doing it charts his progress from student prose-writer to theatre critic, theatre critic to dramatic adviser, and finally from dramatic adviser to freelance writer.

Der junge Botho Strauss: Literarische Sprache im Zeitalter der Medien (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik, 206) (German Edition) PDF

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