Der Papst ist schwanger Ein Raum für religiöses Tauziehen?

Reading Dietrich Schönenberg's Spiel von Frau Jutten with its preface and epilogue, this article discusses how ideas of the Reformation are imposed by the paratext on the Catholic elements expressed in the play. Based on the composition, it can be demonstrated how the Catholic text in dialogues, called the play text (Spieltext), is transformed by these operations into a text for reading (Lesetext), promoting ideas of the Reformation. The purpose of this medial transformation is to be identified in the construction of a polemical affective space. The deconstruction of the Catholic and the construction of the Protestant perspective relies less on the mere reproduction of the Catholic play as a pamphlet associated with such paratexts, but rather on the fact that the ''Spieltext'' is entirely tailored to suit the religious polemic.