„[…][M]it so oan geht ma nit ins Wirtshaus! Der ghört ja ins Narrenhaus!“ Darstellung von Abweichung und Normalität im Theaterstück Kein Platz für Idioten von Felix Mitterer
| Title in English | ‘You don’t take someone like that to the pub! He belongs in the madhouse!’ Representations of Otherness and Normality in the Play Kein Platz für Idioten by Felix Mitterer |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | BRÜNNER BEITRÄGE ZUR GERMANISTIK UND NORDISTIK |
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| web | https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/default/files/pdf/BBGN2025-2-6.pdf |
| Keywords | Felix Mitterer; Kein Platz für Idioten; normality; disability; impairment; social exclusion. |
| Description | The Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer’s Kein Platz für Idioten portrays a seemingly normal society in conflict with a deviant element. The protagonist, a mentally disabled boy rejected by his family and later taken in by an old man, disrupts not only his immediate surroundings but also the social order of a small Alpine village. Fearing that the presence of a disabled individual might deter affluent German tourists, the community ultimately accuses the boy of a fabricated crime and institutionalizes him, thereby removing the perceived disturbance. This study argues that disability and normality in Mitterer’s play can be interpreted in reverse: the boy and his caretaker may represent true normality, while the rest of society is shaped by abnormalities. |
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