Murderer, Hope of Women

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Murderer, Hope of Women is an early 20th-century Expressionist play by Oskar Kokoschka, known for its intense psychological themes and avant-garde, proto-Expressionist style.

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Murderer, Hope of Women canonical 1
Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen 1

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instanceOf Expressionist play
play
theatrical work
author Oskar Kokoschka
countryOfOrigin Austria
dramaticTechnique highly condensed action
non-naturalistic dialogue
stylized gesture
symbolic color and lighting
firstPerformanceCountry Austria
firstPerformanceDate 1909
firstPerformanceLanguage German
firstPerformancePlace Vienna
form one-act play
genre Expressionism
drama
hasDramatisPersonae female protagonist
male protagonist
hasMainConflict violent struggle between man and woman
hasTitleInOriginalLanguage Murderer, Hope of Women self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen
historicalSignificance important work in early 20th-century avant-garde theatre
one of the earliest Expressionist dramas
influenced Expressionist theatre
German-language avant-garde drama
influencedBy early 20th-century Viennese modernism
literaryPeriod early 20th century
medium stage
movement Expressionism
narrativeMode symbolic
originalLanguage German
setting symbolic, non-naturalistic stage space
style avant-garde
proto-Expressionist
theme eroticism
gender relations
intense psychological conflict
love and destruction
power struggle
violence
tone intense
psychologically charged
tragic
writer Oskar Kokoschka

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Oskar Kokoschka notableWork Murderer, Hope of Women
Murderer, Hope of Women hasTitleInOriginalLanguage Murderer, Hope of Women self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen