Resumen de Inszenierung des Dogmas oder (Re-)Mythisierung? Christi Höllenfahrt in den Osterspielen des Mittelalters
The descensus ad inferos (descent into hell), one of the key scenes in vernacular Easter Plays, is well suited to exemplify Rainer Warning’s controversial thesis that Easter Plays are a ‘Remythisierung der Heilsgeschichte’ (remythologizing of Salvation history). This article examines, systematically, the analytical consistency of this thesis. At first, it reconstructs Warning’s terminology, and then it revises the same terminology on the basis of descent scenes in selected German plays (Easter Plays of Muri, Innsbruck, Osnabrück, and Redentin).
