Schwank (comedy)
 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (March 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
In German-speaking cultures, Schwank is a genre of short funny tale, verse, song, play, opera, etc.[1][2] In German, common meanings for the word "Schwank" are "prank", "funny tale", told for entertainment.[3]
The Kleines Literarisches Lexikon (1966) offers a distinction of Schwank from other forms of comedy: Schwank delivers light, harmless, carefree humor, which distinguishes it from comedy, which ridicules something; from Lustspiel, which offers much hilarity; and from farce (de:Posse), with its crude boisterousness.[4]
Other German types of literary and scenic art involving comedy include the Posse mit Gesang, Klamotte, Lustspiel, Volksstück, and Festspiel.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Elfriede Moser-Rath, Predigtmärlein der Barockzeit. Exempel, Sage, Schwank und Fabel in geistlichen Quellen des oberdeutschen Raumes, 1964
- ^ "Die Situationskomik in Schwank und Posse", 1926
- ^ Schwank, Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online
- ^ Horst Rüdiger; Erwin Koppen (Hrsg.) (1966). Kleines Literarisches Lexikon (in German). Vol. 3 (4th ed.). Bern/München. p. 370.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)