The Eleventh Olympic Games In the Context of the Formation of the Art of Performance

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Vera N. Dyomina

Abstract

The work examines the question of the influence of Ancient Greek and Roman culture in the aspect of studying the process of formation of performative practices. Research is made of the theatrical productions carried out within the framework of the cultural program of the Olympic Games which took place in Berlin in August 1936. During the process of studying the synthetic nature of the sportive holiday as a central component of the action the chronotope of the text of the festivity is examined. The productions of Carl Diem’s “Olympische Jugend” and Eberhard Möller’s “Frankenburger Würfelspiel.” The methodology of research is based on the application of a multidisciplinary approach and the inclusion of methods of culturology and the theoretical positions of history and political science. The material of research was provided in various forms of storing: cinema, phono and photo documents of the holidays celebrated in Nazi Germany, as well as memoirs of the participants and organizers of the festive actions. As the result of the accomplished out research it has been established that the succession of the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome and the culture of the Third Reich is demonstrated not only in building such constructions, but in the creation of a sacred atmosphere by means of recreating the ritual component of the ancient Greek and Roman holidays. The achievement of a special emotional state during the carrying out of the theatrical action “Frankenburger Würfelspiel” recreated the sacred atmosphere of the ancient Greek and Roman theater and helped provide unity for the participants of the action. The specified technologies, so uncharacteristic for contemporary democratic society, were applied at the specially constructed time and space of the holiday in a separately examined society. This precedent discloses the danger of nationalist views in society.


Keywords: The Eleventh Olympic Games, the performative aesthetics, the festive culture of Nazi Germany.

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Dyomina В. Н. . (2020). The Eleventh Olympic Games In the Context of the Formation of the Art of Performance. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 41(4), 88–96. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1218
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Music in the System of Culture
Author Biography

Vera N. Dyomina, Rostov State S. V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Vera N. Dyomina, Dr.Sci. (Arts), Associate Professor at the Department of the Music History, Rostov State S. V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory