Oskar Panizza and the Love Council

Peter D.G. Brown is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of German at the State University of New York at New Paltz. This is his third book on Oskar Panizza. He has edited more than 100 books on German history and literature.

Table of Contents



Preface     

Abbreviations     



Part I: The Play

1. Oskar Panizza’s Legacy     

2. The Love Council: A Heavenly Tragedy in Five Acts, 1894     

3. Additions to the Second and Third Editions, 1896–1897     



Part II: The Author

4. The Early Decades, 1853–1894     

5. Downward Spiral, 1895–1921     

6. Panizza’s Autobiographical Sketch, 1904     



Part III: The Trials

7. The 1895 Trial in Munich     

8. Defense and Judgment in the Matter of The Love Council     

9. Twentieth-Century Trials     



Part IV: Reception and Performance

10. M. G. Conrad’s Evaluation, 1895     

11. Critical Responses to The Love Council, 1895–1897     

12. Performances around the World, 1962–2008     



Appendix A. Theatrical Productions of Das Liebeskonzil     

Appendix B. Chronology of Oskar Panizza’s Life     

Bibliography     

Index