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Transfiguration

play by Toller

Also known as: “Die Wandlung”

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German literature

In German literature: Expressionism
Die Wandlung (1919; Transfiguration), a play by Ernst Toller, depicts this kind of transformation in a young man who turns his horrific war experience into a new awareness of the brotherhood of man; his play Masse-Mensch (1920; Man and the Masses) presents the tragic attempt of a woman…
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In theatre: Production aspects of Expressionist theatre
In Toller’s Transfiguration (1918) the soldiers on the battlefield had skeletons painted on their costumes. Characters were frequently presented as fragments of a unified consciousness. Crowds were often not differentiated but were used in mass to express or underline the power of the protagonist’s position. Expressionist roles…
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