Notturno di "Café Müller". Una lettura

Abstract

The paper analyzes the phraseologies, the poetic aims and the semantical structures of Café Müller (1978) by Pina Bausch, undrelining on one side its multiple links to the forms of cultural anachronism which stemmed in the German context between the 60s and 70s from the memory of the Second World War, and discussing on the other the modes, themselves “meta-chronical”, of Pina Bausch’s dialogue with the tradition of Ausdruckstanz. At the same time, by analyzing some proceedings and patterns like repetition, desynchronisation and allegory, traces back the practical and philosophical reasons for the “paradigmatic” meaning of Café Müller, not only as a masterwork in Tanztheater, but as model for the proceedings of semantical re-construction and modes of signification inherited by the “silent dramaturgy” of the last decades.