Hans
Jürgen Syberberg and His Film of Wagner's Parsifal By Solveig Olsen
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University Press of America
$63.00 Paper 0-7618-3376-5 Dec 2005 564pp
While much has been published abroad about the German filmmaker and author Hans
Jürgen Syberberg, this is the first English monograph about him. Author
Solveig Olsen presents a biographical overview of the controversial artist and
his body of work, and offers an in-depth analysis of Syberberg's film of Richard
Wagner's Parsifal and his later works.
Syberberg gained international fame as a filmmaker with the films of his "German
Cycle," which included Our Hitler, a study of the Hitler potential in human
nature. Parsifal of 1982 concluded the German Cycle. Preserving Wagner's libretto
and score, the film uses the visual component to imbue the work with a surprising
interpretation. In addition to the medieval story about the Grail seeker, the
director draws on several other frames of reference, such as the theories of
Freud and Jung, alchemy, and Syberberg's main aesthetic views and philosophy
that have gone unrecognized until now. Olsen explores the role of Parsifal as
Wagner's artistic and philosophical testament, and the implications of Syberberg's
reinterpretation.
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