Abstract (eng)
The Austrian singer and songwriter Wolfgang Ambros published between 1973 and 1981 four radio plays. He wrote them together with Josef Prokopetz and M.O. Tauchen. This dissertation examines the reference of these works to the Viennese Volkstheater. The Ambros-radio-plays, the author calls them “popular-cultural social satires”, Fäustling, Der Watzmann ruft, Schaffnerlos and Augustin keep the tradition of the Viennese Volkstheater. That doesn’t mean, that there is a continous and incessant tradition from Joseph Anton Stranitzky to Johann Nestroy and from Johann Nestroy to Wolfgang Ambros and the musical movement called “Austropop” - it means, that rudiments and elements of the Viennese Volkstheater live on in the radio plays of Ambros, Tauchen and Prokopetz. In this context the author also investigated and analysed the partially high literary quality of Ambros’ radio plays, his and the songs of Georg Danzer. The lyrics of Ambros, Prokopetz and primarily Danzer and also the examined radio plays are part of the Austrian history of literature and history of radio plays. This doctoral thesis wants to treat these radio plays and songs with the kind of due respect the Austrian history of literature and radio plays has been ignoring until today. Fäustling, Der Watzmann ruft, Schaffnerlos and Augustin are classic examples for Austropop, a movement which breakes with (musical) traditions and social taboos even though the protagonists of Austropop work with traditional elements, in this case with elements of the Viennese Volkstheater. The radio plays of Ambros, Prokopetz and Tauchen oscillate between destruction, disruption, mutation, metamorphosis and preservation of tradition. To work out this fact is the purpose of the dissertation Die Hörspiele von Wolfgang Ambros, Josef Prokopetz und M.O. Tauchen. Popularkulturelle Sozialsatiren in der Tradition des Wiener Volkstheaters.