Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
German Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
72,2 (1999) 167-184
Keywords:
Tabori, George,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the theater
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Humor
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Notes how the cemetery setting of the play "Jubiläum" (1983) relates to four aspects of the Holocaust: the continuation of antisemitism after 1945, the situation of the survivors since the war, the relations between perpetrators and victims in concentration camps, and the situation today of children of survivors and victims, like Tabori (whose father perished in Auschwitz). Relates to Tabori's view of theater as therapy, and the play's relation to "Hamlet". However, focuses on humor and the Holocaust in terms of Tabori's use and "surpassing" of Freud in relation to antisemitism and Jewish suffering. Presents a Freudian approach to Tabori in regard to his own father, and the Jewish identities of father and son. Tabori uses humor to show the relationship between oppression and repression, the latter in terms of German memory, identity, and theater, all of which have tried to bury the past.
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