Why So Angry, German Theater? Crash Course Theater #27 

After *CrashCourse Theater* ends, I definitely want a *CrashCourse Music.*

"Sturm und Drang" is more like "Storm and Urge". (Here more in the sense of "passion", as described in the video.) 😉❤️ Amazing Crash Course, by the way 👌👍😁

Haha, yes, Faust gets saved in the second part, since he actually only says that he *could* say he wants this moment to last forever. Grammar saves lives.

Okay, I have to correct you: Georg Büchner was NOT a writer in the era of Romantisicm. Yes, he lived around that time, but there were several movements during that time. He was more part of 'Vormärz' (pre-march). And 'Woyzeck' is something entirely different. I feel like it was written about 50 years too early, because it would fit much better in the period of 'realism' or 'naturalism'. Bur it's definitely no romantic piece of literature..

Pretty cool episode! Faust really is kind of a sum of so many movements and ideas is amazing. Saw both parts performed together a few years back (took about 10-11h) and it really was phenomenal. I think you could've mentioned Lessing's "Nathan the wise" (a play about religious freedom, and tolerance between Muslims, Jewish people and Christians at in Jerusalem) when talking about him, because that one's a curious case. Also mentioning some 20th century German theatre like Brecht would've been a cool insight.

Between all of the mispronounciation, I am truly amazed Mike pronounced Goethe correctly

Reading Faust at school was more fun than I expected as was discussing it: Me: "So, we have a genius scholar who is bemoaning his inability to ever reach his full potential during his life on Earth. The moment he has the devil at his service, he makes himself look hot and tries to get into an innocent girl's pants, only to desert her and party with some horny witches. Did I get this right?" Teacher: Well, yeah, pretty much.

In Germany we read Faust in school and its even more messed up than it sounds here because Gretchen is only 14. But a cool thing about it is that the bar that Faust and Mephistopheles visit is real and since my grade's class trip is to Leipzig (where the play is set) this year, we'll be able to actually visit it.

Sturm und Drang is better translated as Storm and Drive.

Basically one year of German class in a few minutes, nice 😊

I'm a senior in undergrad about to get my bachelors degree in theatre. I love, love, LOVE this series, but I would be interested in seeing an episode on technical theatre. Either way, keep doing what you're doing and thank you! :)

What's the difference between power and tenure? Mephistopheles couldn't get Faust tenure.

Verweile doch, du bist so schön

I love how Mike always looks like he's letting us in on a hilarious secret or inside joke. It really makes these fun to watch!

Mike being involved in an obscure, fragmentary German play about LSD and death is extremely on-brand for him xD

Kant was NOT a romantic thinker. He postulated that the reality is impossible to understand and perceive in its essence, but also that the only way to understand the visible phoenomena and make reality coherent despite subjective perception was pure reason. Such was the power of reaon for him that he thought it could establish what was truly beatiful and could establish OBJECTVE morality and models do predict and explain natural phoenomena.

German theater? Well, now i learned even more. I'm learning German history! Yes

Sry but I have to correct something: 5:40m : Rousseau and Kant weren't in the Romanticsm… they lived at the time of Enlightenment (Aufklärung in German). That's quite a big mistake over there! Rationalism is more a base to Enlightenment than to Romanticism... The 60 year progress of making the "Faust-tragedy" was probably a bit confusing for you in Terms of eras because it fits into Sturm & Drang, Weimar classic, romanticism and enlightenment. Faust is a very complex Drama and Goethe would never agree that this is just a romantic Drama in any case… especially if you know that it was divided in two separate parts. The romantic aspects in Faust are related to the religious Questions appearing mostly in conversations with Mephisto, the witches plots and Gretchens Songs. Mephisto is not characterized as "bad guy" per se, he's more kind of an Enlightener or nearly kind of a philosoph himself but cacohuetes being stuck in his Role as Devil and Antagonist to heaven/ God. Goethe also Plays with the fact that God and Mephisto both "gamble" with Faustus' life in order to gain his Soul.... kinda unlikely for sinfree god, isn't it? SO Goethe criticizes Religion a lot in These parts of the Story... In fact the plot in heaven is a sign for a Weimar classic Drama. Also the main focus in the beginning on "Bildung" and education is definitely classic. The Gretchen Tragedy is definitely orientating on Sturm und Drang focussing on the Problem Emotion vs. Rational thinking… Just some Input from me, but if you correct those aspects, it's a very nice overview on German Drama! VIelen Dank from Southern Germany and a German teaching Student :D

I'm currently reading The Awakening of Spring and.... it's intense

Melange is Gemisch or Mischung . German has many words for the same concept , which makes it great for Poetry . Today is the perfect Day to start learning German . I would like to know more about German Lieder . Thank you .

Btw: Gretchen ist 14 yo

I can’t wait for the Theater of the Absurd & Brecht/Beckett!

Ich habe Goethe und Schiller lieb.

wasn't Sturm und Drang that bulgarian school in harry potter

Really good, concise summary, of a loooot of stuff 🤯🤓 Takes me back to high school German 😂

Feel like I'm back in school. 5 years of German literature in a few minutes.

Thank God, a channel with people who can pronounce German words.

9:30 look on the wall of the house. It’s the sign of the Deathy hollows.

The german word for melange is “Mischung”

We spent a whole year on Sturm und Drang in high school

Great video!! & editing was quiet good. I hope one day I can shoot videos like this :D

Part 2 is even stranger than part 1 of Faust. I've read it but I can't imagine how it would be performed.

7:57 Faust

Wait a second... since when was Germany unified in the 18th century? Germany online started to exist in 1871..

Woh! Before this vid I had not realized the parallels of todays cinematic writers and narrative revolutions from the past. I always thought romanticism was 300 year old love stories about Mr Darcy or the last of Mohicans.

I suspect "savages of Canada" refers to the Native peoples of Canada, who were called "savages" by Europeans such as Friedrich the Great, so you might want to more specifically say to "sorry" to them. If what I'm saying is correct (and that quote wasn't Friedrich suggesting white pioneer Canadians have no taste in the arts) using that quote might be a bit like using a quote with the N-word without prefacing it with some historical context. That being said, I liked the subtle "not so Great Frederick if you ask me" line just after that. I didn't even notice you slipped it in there, but it does do a little bit to distance editorial voice from his, which is even more important if you're going to use a quote about "the savages of Canada."

Have you seen our weather?

Hey I'm early... DO AN EPISODE ABOUT OPERA! Opera is theatre too, I feel discriminated as an opera fan :'(

Oh, the playlist is updated again! Wait, where's episode 26?

That play spring awakening was based on was German... so yeah

It’s subtle, but I saw what you did there when you counted to three.

What a fine fine episode!

Sturm und Drang I think would be translated much better by "Storm and strive" than "Storm and stress"

Too short! More please!

This series is really good I just want to say

Where is the next episode of Crash Course Theater?? It's already been a week

What do people have against our theatre … it's just based on our pessimistic philosophy and world view! *sulking in a corner*

Could you please talk about SSD (somatic symptom disorder)?

THANK YOU

Jokes about sausage are the wurst.

And for a Second there I thought that Richard Wagner, was referring to Donald, but then Wagner would Either be a Jedi, or a Sith Lord, to Foresee that.

Another great episode

Fantastic counting use

I love how Mephisto takes the form of a poodle!

Lol.. “not that you’d want to”.

I AM WAITING FOR GUDOE

Would anyone happen to know the name/artist of the painting at 5:40?

Faust is great, but it seems like Goethe was on drugs while writing the second part....

Cant find the episode on Meldrama. #28 to be precise. Anyone ?

do we get viennese comedy, ie nestroy, raimund, pawlatschnbühnen?

Three Woyceks? You poor thing!

What's happening CrashCourse? Where's my new episode? I'm worried?

Again why are we not doing an episode on Opera!?!?

Question for everyone: How does what we know about an author/artist/composer color our appreciation of their work? Should Wagner’s anti-Semitism lower his standing in the ranks of great composers?

Sooo... Is no one going to point out that Immanuel Kant was actually quite famously AGAINST romanticism and instead a representative of the following Era, the age of enlightenment?

Sounds like Lars von Trier.

Can you pls make a video about the movie "The Philosophers"? Pls.😢

Do Artillery only

Faust or faustus?

Dermstange in harry potter?

Getting saved by grammar is one of the most German things you could write.

Hope you go back to Asia and cover Takarazuka. 🤓

Well, I'm more like a natural sciences gurl, but this was surprisingly entertaining. :D

I have heard about all of this over 10 years ago in school, but I remember so little about it. Thanks for the video. You're basically irnoning out the gaps that the German educational system has left me with. :D

Love that guy.

What about Russian or Arabic theater?

Please do a crash course on law

Beecher said

Iz jus play

5:51 "Also argued humans are at there best shirtless on a horse." Typo 'there' should be possessive 'their'. Also, I agree.

Wait, the devil went down to Faust in the form of a poodle?!?!? (At 8:39). WTF??? That makes the play doubly-weird. I always thought that the devil disguised himself as a handsome man/beautiful woman to seduce Faust. Bizarre...

7:47 three the Germans use that as there three

Did he just mention Richard Wagner?

That sounded like perfect German.

basically the proto-emo wave

6:38 Why would one segue from Wagner's criticism of "lying and fraud and hypocrisy" to him being an anti-Semite?

I'd love Kant if he weren't so hard to read.

Des Pudels Kern...

Those bavarian stereotypes.

Shouldn't we be talking about Opera in here? You can't separate out the histories of French and German opera traditions from the straight theatre.

Had to read göthes faust today. Whatever that guy smoked. I want some!

3 more videos for the 1,000nd!!

So hey good new Sturm and Drang: Angry German Philosophy and anti-modernism are making a comeback in the United States! Woo.....

Haci está el. Mundo por culpa del clasismo y el romanticismo...

I'm just here to laugh about you guys mispronouncing German words :P

And America ...make america great again lmao

Another video about Germany by Crashcours that is riddled with errors. Get it together you guys - the German culture is not exactly exotic to the american one.

11th comment baby

Why so angry, German people?

Goethe < Schiller!!! Faust sucks so much and pretty much everything Schiller wrote is better