Macht-Spiele – das „Fräulein Hartmann”, die „Tagespost” und die „nichtswürdige” Traviata

Abstract

Ute Sonnleitner explores the power-play between stage, audience, actors, media and interested public around the successful singer Nina Hartmann-Zottmayr in Graz. The multiperspective analysis, using a historical comparison
of newspaper reports and biographical notes, enlarges the playing field
far beyond the opera house. Sonnleitner shows the areas of action and boundaries of the various actors and the female actor, and she discloses the intersections of gender-specific and national/nationalist discourses of power, which have been carried out to Hartmann's persona. But it also shows how the singer empowers herself by the choice of her roles.