Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Darfsteller> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 43 of
43
with 100 items per page.
- The_Darfsteller abstract "The Darfsteller is a 1955 novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr. which won the first Hugo Award for Best Novelette.It is the 21st century story of an old stage actor who has become a theater janitor in order to remain near "show biz". The theater has been overtaken by robot actors, made to look like humans, which act out plays under the direction of each venue's central computer. This "Maestro" runs the show, accommodating the kinds of factors which real actors would contend with: audience reactions, failing mechanical actors (when they are broken or one of the tapes that they get their programming from is worn), and other inconstant factors.The old actor dreams up a scheme to get himself back on stage, despite the prejudice against real acting. He destroys one of the robot's tapes, and since he knows the part from his previous career, he is the only way the show can go on. The old actor's problem is that he has always been a darfsteller (likely a portmanteau of "darsteller", German for "actor/actress", with "darf", inflected form of "dürfen", "to be at liberty to do something") which the narrator explains was a "self-directed actor... the undirectable portrayer whose acting welled from unconscious sources with no external strings", generally hated by directors even when they performed excellently. The meaning of the story comes from the point that he cannot just walk onto the stage and deliver lines; as a "Darfsteller", he must live them, and transform himself into his role, and once that process begins, it is difficult to stop it.".
- The_Darfsteller author Walter_M._Miller,_Jr..
- The_Darfsteller language English_language.
- The_Darfsteller literaryGenre Science_fiction.
- The_Darfsteller wikiPageID "1906603".
- The_Darfsteller wikiPageRevisionID "591937301".
- The_Darfsteller author Walter_M._Miller,_Jr..
- The_Darfsteller genre Science_fiction.
- The_Darfsteller genre Short_story.
- The_Darfsteller hasPhotoCollection The_Darfsteller.
- The_Darfsteller id "55822".
- The_Darfsteller language English_language.
- The_Darfsteller name "The Darfsteller".
- The_Darfsteller pubDate "1955".
- The_Darfsteller title "The Darfsteller".
- The_Darfsteller wordnet_type synset-short_story-noun-1.
- The_Darfsteller subject Category:1955_short_stories.
- The_Darfsteller subject Category:History_of_theatre.
- The_Darfsteller subject Category:Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novelette_winning_works.
- The_Darfsteller subject Category:Science_fiction_short_stories.
- The_Darfsteller type 1955ShortStories.
- The_Darfsteller type Abstraction100002137.
- The_Darfsteller type Communication100033020.
- The_Darfsteller type Fiction106367107.
- The_Darfsteller type LiteraryComposition106364329.
- The_Darfsteller type ScienceFictionShortStories.
- The_Darfsteller type ShortStory106371999.
- The_Darfsteller type Story106369829.
- The_Darfsteller type Writing106362953.
- The_Darfsteller type WrittenCommunication106349220.
- The_Darfsteller type Work.
- The_Darfsteller type WrittenWork.
- The_Darfsteller type CreativeWork.
- The_Darfsteller type InformationEntity.
- The_Darfsteller comment "The Darfsteller is a 1955 novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr. which won the first Hugo Award for Best Novelette.It is the 21st century story of an old stage actor who has become a theater janitor in order to remain near "show biz". The theater has been overtaken by robot actors, made to look like humans, which act out plays under the direction of each venue's central computer.".
- The_Darfsteller label "The Darfsteller".
- The_Darfsteller sameAs m.0658nb.
- The_Darfsteller sameAs Q7728896.
- The_Darfsteller sameAs Q7728896.
- The_Darfsteller sameAs The_Darfsteller.
- The_Darfsteller wasDerivedFrom The_Darfsteller?oldid=591937301.
- The_Darfsteller isPrimaryTopicOf The_Darfsteller.
- The_Darfsteller name "The Darfsteller".