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29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: The Burgtheater Crisis 11 Jan 1890,
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Rudolf Steiner
For all his importance as an actor and director, Sonnenthal lacked any understanding of dramatic art. We fear the same from v. Werther and Savits. The names Spielhagen, Paul Heyse and Hans Hopfen were also mentioned.
But what Ludwig Speidel does not seem to know, because he only passes over his name in passing, is that we actually have a good dramaturgical writer who has shown in recent years with every new publication that he has grown, and that is now Heinrich Bulthaupt. Equipped with a fine understanding of the inner technique and aesthetics of drama, few can compete with him when it comes to a penetrating understanding of the art of acting. When Ludwig Speidel accuses him of showing little understanding of the peculiarities of the Burgtheater's acting art, we have a number of things to say about this.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: Our Critics 18 Jan 1890,
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Rudolf Steiner
It is true that Hebbel himself once hinted in the drama that his creation is to be understood in this sense, to be judged from this point of view; but such hints are too tenuous for our critics. One would have to be thoroughly educated to understand them. And so we had to listen to the most petty questions being asked about Hebbel's cosmic poetry, such as: whether the figures are possible, whether the ending is satisfying and so on.
The king does not perish like an ordinary tragic hero, but undergoes a process of purification. Through the inner experience he has had with the passionate Jewish girl, a new man emerges in him.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: Style Corruption by the Press 01 Feb 1890,
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Rudolf Steiner
We mean the corruption of the German style and the German treatment of language. One should not underestimate this fact. A national party in particular must attach importance to the fact that its views and ideas are expressed in a manner appropriate to the nation and in keeping with its nature.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: A Book on Viennese Theater Life 01 Mar 1890,
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Rudolf Steiner
We have shown that stage managers and critics are losing their understanding and audiences are losing their receptiveness to artistic value, and that there is now only a need for light merchandise, sensational plays and frivolous entertainment.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: The Old and the Young 02 Mar 1890,
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Rudolf Steiner
We appreciate youth because we love strength. We also understand the Sturm und Drang that overshoots the mark, but we firmly reject youthful, powerless, rabble-rousing megalomania.
We know well what will be said about these lines in the circles concerned: this is written by a person who is still afflicted by the "old" view of art, who still believes in this garbage of aesthetics and so on, a person who lacks any understanding of the spirit of the age. But my dear "young ones", only believe this: if anything is easy to understand, it is you. For the rest of us need only remember what we understood before we learned anything, then we can grasp you. We are not impressed by such shallowness, by such immaturity.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: The Cologne Hänneschen Theater 08 Jan 1898,
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Rudolf Steiner
To unfold the dramatic action in such a way that these simple forces underlie and dominate the process is the poet's art. The characters who appear in dramatic creations can be reduced to a few basic types.
In Heinrich Laube's case, it was particularly praised that as a director he understood the art of thread drawing. This thread-drawing consists of nothing other than bringing complicated dramatic processes back to a simple basic structure.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: The State National Theater 15 Jan 1898,
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Rudolf Steiner
Those who disagree are not talking about real states, but about an ideal state that leads its existence in cloud cuckoo land. Anyone who has an understanding of the nature and conditions of existence of art would have to admit that a higher branch of culture cannot be better served than by keeping it as free as possible from the influence of the state.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: Vienna's Burgtheater Crisis 15 Jan 1898,
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Rudolf Steiner
When Dr. Max Burckhard took office, no one with understanding could stand up for him. Of all the candidates considered at the time, he must have seemed the least suitable.
The public is much less conservative in artistic matters than the so-called "authoritative circles". The public has been forced to understand Arnold Böcklin! Those who only a few years ago would shrug their shoulders as they walked past Böcklin's Pieta now stand before it in adoration, as they always did before the Sistine Madonna.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: Theater and Criticism 05 Feb 1898,
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Rudolf Steiner
It is least of all edifying for the theater professionals themselves. What can't be found under the heading "theater" in our newspapers and journals? Perhaps nowhere is dilettantism more rampant than in this field.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: The Insignificant 12 Feb 1898,
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Rudolf Steiner
Then both poets and actors will recognize it. And then both categories of artists will understand each other. At present, such an understanding is lacking.

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