Enthauptete Menschen und körperlose Puppen.: Christian Morgenstern über Leben und Technik in seiner humoristischen »Tageszeitung aus dem Jahr 2407«

Emanuela Ferragamo

Decapitated People and Disembodied Dolls.

Christian Morgenstern about Life and Technology in his Humorous »Daily Newspaper from the Year 2407«

Authors

Emanuela Ferragamo University of Torino

Keywords:

Christian Morgenstern, humour, utopia, technique, turn of the century, German literature

Abstract

Christian Morgenstern understood humour as an alternative way into science, from which he felt excluded because of ‘dilettantism’. The drafts from his unpublished works give proof of this passion: in the posthumously published text From the advertising section of a daily newspaper in 2407, Morgenstern presents a series of “inventions”. Among them is an ad for artificial heads that are put over the natural ones and can therefore only offer advantages. Morgenstern dreams of a hybridization with technical devices that sharpen hearing and sight and transform a human being into a technological doll. What they dream of, however, is a completely different question …

Author Biography

Emanuela Ferragamo, University of Torino

Emanuela Ferragamo is an Italian Germanist working at the Department of German Studies of the University of Turin; PhD in Modern German Literary Studies in the framework of a cotutelle-de-thesis with a dissertation on Christian Morgenstern's parodic poetics at the Universities of Turin and Basel. Research interests include intertextuality, turn-of-the-century German literature, and philosophy of language, and more recently landscape aesthetics and literary ecocriticism. She is currently writing a monograph on the literary representation of the utopian landscape.

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FERRAGAMO, Emanuela. Decapitated People and Disembodied Dolls.: Christian Morgenstern about Life and Technology in his Humorous »Daily Newspaper from the Year 2407«. just a bit of doll - a multidisciplinary journal for human-doll discourses, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 1.2, p. 102–107, 2021. Disponível em: https://dedo.ub.uni-siegen.de/index.php/de_do/article/view/90. Acesso em: 24 nov. 2024.