{"id":1684,"date":"2024-10-30T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=1684"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:58:35","slug":"vienna-mahler-lecture-8","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/veranstaltung\/vienna-mahler-lecture-8","title":{"rendered":"Vienna Mahler Lecture #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u00f3r\u00e1nt P\u00e9teri: „Mahler Reception, Jewish Experience, and Cinema during the ‚Hungarian Sixties'“<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lecture\u2019s main focus is Father [Apa], a 1966 Hungarian feature film directed by Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3. Szab\u00f3\u2019s international recognition had already been established with his first feature film, The Age of Daydreaming (1965), for which he had received Silver Sail at the Locarno Film Festival, and the first Hungarian movie receiving Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign-Language Film was his Mephisto (1981). Szab\u00f3\u2019s affinity with music and his fascination with music making as a topic are manifest in his early short film Concert (1962), his collaboration with P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s in The Age of Daydreaming, his movies portraying the world of leading opera houses (Meeting Venus, 1991), or dealing with the complexity of Wilhelm Furtw\u00e4ngler\u2019s personal and political situation at Germany\u2019s Zero Hour (Taking Sides, 2001).<\/p>\n

The music of Father is based on\u00a0extended quotations from and allusions to the third movement of Mahler\u2019s First Symphony, and is composed by musicologist, pianist, composer, and\u00a0jazz musician J\u00e1nos Gonda. Spanning the historical period from World War II and the Holocaust till the aftermath of the supressed Hungarian revolution of 1956, the film\u2019s screenplay embraces such topics as childhood, loss, trauma, nostalgia, the interconnectivity of memory and subjectivity, and the fragile construction of identity. Father raises questions of a specific Jewish experience both explicitly and implicitly. I wish to explore the ways in which Mahler\u2019s music generates signification in the film, and also the dialogue that Szab\u00f3\u2019s motion picture conducts with the First Symphony. The Mahlerian element of Father seems to be a complex Leitmotiv rather than a mere cinematic reminiscence motif.<\/p>\n

I also attempt to contextualise Father with a broader panorama of Mahler reception in the reform period of Hungarian state socialism. While a contemporary music critic witnessed Mahler\u2019s \u2018rehabilitation\u2019 in the Hungarian concert halls of the 1960s, Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3\u2019s experiment with the First Symphony can be regarded even as a pioneering act of appropriating Mahler\u2019s music in the cinema \u2013 a phenomenon which became soon robust and global.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u00f3r\u00e1nt P\u00e9teri: „Mahler Reception, Jewish Experience, and Cinema during the ‚Hungarian Sixties’“ The lecture\u2019s main focus is Father [Apa], a 1966 Hungarian feature film directed by Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3. Szab\u00f3\u2019s international […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[12],"class_list":["post-1684","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-gastvortrag","cat_gastvortrag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1684\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oegmw.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}