• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    I love the joke, but there is actually a German word for this: Tragikomödie.

    It is a compound noun formed by combining Tragödie (tragedy) and Komödie (comedy).

    This term was notably used in German Romanticism and later in 20th-century drama (for example like Brecht or Dürrenmatt) to describe works that refuse to fit neatly into a single emotional category.