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Malchow, Timothy B.
The German quarterly, 04/1999, Letnik: 72, Številka: 2Journal Article
George Tabori has characterized theater as akin to therapy in a sick society. This essay undertakes a reading of his critical appropriation of Freud in Jubiläum (1983), a play in which the joke is a central motif. The cemetery setting of the play connects the historical moment of the Holocaust with contemporary manifestations of anti-Semitism in Germany and becomes the site of Tabori's engagement of established theatrical means of representing the Holocaust. Significant intertextual references include Brecht, documentary drama, and post-war appropriations of Hamlet. Finally, the essay discussed Tabori's position in the ongoing debate surrounding the use of humor in the representation of the Holocaust.
