A typographical Wunderkammer
Philipp Stölzl and Philip M. Krenn direct Elektra in Baden-Baden (*****) [live]
It is January 25, 1909, when Elektra is premiered in Dresden. Siegmund Freud has only just committed his "Studien über Hysterie" to paper. The clinical term "hysteria" is still brand new, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, with his Elektra, has offered a theatrical response to the new view of man in psychoanalysis. A p…
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