Home „Und das Geheimnis der Liebe ist größer als das Geheimnis des Todes“. Religion, Sexualität und Kunst – München um 1900
Article
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

„Und das Geheimnis der Liebe ist größer als das Geheimnis des Todes“. Religion, Sexualität und Kunst – München um 1900

  • Jan Rohls EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: June 11, 2015

Abstract

Around 1900 the relation between religion and sexuality became a favorite subject of art. Munich was the place where some of the most relevant works of art where produced at this time. In 1905 the opera “Salome” was composed by the Munichborn Richard Strauß, based on Oscar Wilde’s drama and dealing with the relation between sexual love, religion and death. In quite a different way Oscar Panizza’s “Liebeskonzil” is concerned with the same topic. Here it is not the decadent court of Herodes with John the Baptist as religious prophet and Salome falling in deadly love with him but the oversexualized Vatican at the time of Alexander Borgia punished by God with the syphilis. Religion and sexuality also form the background of the Wedekind’s unfinished “Ella”, an early stage of the development of his famous “Lulu”, and they play a central role in Thomas Mann’s novel “Gladius Dei”, a byproduct of his drama “Fiorenza”. Here sexuality and art are represented by the Florentine court of

Lorenzo de’ Medici whereas the friar Savonarola is the representative of the religious opposition

Online erschienen: 2015-6-11
Erschienen im Druck: 2014-4-15

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Downloaded on 30.9.2025 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/znth-2015-0006/html
Scroll to top button