Schwank (comedy)
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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]
German Kleines Literarisches Lexikon offers a distinction of Shwank from other forms of comical works: Shwanks deliver light, harmless, carefree humor, and in that it may be distinguished from comedy, which ridicules something, from de:Lustspiel, which offers much hilarity, or from farce (de:Posse), with its crude boisterousness. [4]
See also[edit]
- Other German types of literary and scenic art include Posse mit Gesang, de:Klamotte, de:Lustspiel, de:Volksstück, Festival play
- Fabliau
- Facetia
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.): Kleines Literarisches Lexikon. 4. Auflage. Bern/München 1966, vol. 3,pS. 370.