“Simulanten des Irrsinns auf dem Vortragspult”: Dada, Krieg und Psychiatrie, eine Aktive Traumadynamik (2014)
Dietze, Gabriele (Author)
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 37, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 332-350
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Bühnen des Wahnsinns. Inszenierungen psychischer Alterität
Language: German
“Simulanten des Irrsinns auf dem Vortragspult”: Dada, War and Psychiatry -- `Active Dynamics of Trauma'. This paper relates stage performances of dada artists to war neurosis and shell shock as sociocultural phenomena. The leitmotif of this investigation is the notion of simulation, as dada artists were referred to as malingerers (simulators) of madness by the press at the time. I hypothesize that the performers imitate/simulate with drums, shouting and `bruitist' sound poems, the noises of war, staging themselves as war neurotics in a kind of shocking clinical demonstration. Both discourses intersect in the fact that many dadaists try to dodge the draft by simulating madness. The scandalizing anti-art of dada will be understood as contagious anti-pedagogy, trying to vaccinate against the madness of the era. 1918
...MoreArticle Friedland, Alexander; Herrn, Rainer; Kassar, Johannes; Ledebur, Sophie (2014) Einleitung: Bühnen des Wahnsinns. Inszenierungen psychischer Alterität. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 303-308).
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