44 FROM THE PLAY DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER TO OPERA IKAN ASIN: A STUDY ON HANS ROBERT JAUSS’ HORIZON OF EXPECTATION Isti Haryati Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Jerman, Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia Jalan Combo 1, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Corresponding Author: haryati.istihar@gmail.com Article History: Submitted: 15 August 2019; Revised: 7 November 2019; Accepted: 28 November 2019 DOI: 10.26858/retorika.13i1.9961 RETORIKA: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License ISSN: 2614-2716 (print), ISSN: 2301-4768 (online) http://ojs.unm.ac.id/retorika Abstract: This article aims to reveal how Riantiarno's horizon of expectation before reading the play Die Dreigroschenoper affects the results of his actualization in his play Opera Ikan Asin. The method that being used here is comparison and literature study method. The results show that not all of Riantiarno’s expectation were fullfiled. To fullfill the horizon of expectation, Riantiarno makes an adjustment. The unfulfillment in terms of theater norms have led to the inclusion of tra- ditional elements into the play Opera Ikan Asin. Therefore, Brecht's play Die Dreigroschenoper gets Riantiarno closer to the tradition. Keywords: horizon of expectation, actualization, adjustment, tradition A work of literature will always live from time to time in the presence of readers participa- tion. According to Jauss, without the participa- tion of readers the works will only be a meaning- less monument (Jauss, 1970: 169). Therefore the main role of the readers becomes important for life of a literary work. Before reading a work of literature the readers themself have a horizon of expectation which are their pre-experience. The reading results which are then actualized in this new work are adjusted by the horizon of expec- tation as the results of the work. One of the literary works which constitutes the result of actualization of the literary works read beforehand is Opera Ikan Asin by N. Rian- tiarno. This play is an actualization of Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper. Bertolt Brecht is a famous literary, poet and also theater expert from Germany. In German literature, Die Dreigroschenoper is a famous modern play, that have brought Bertolt Brecht to his fame. The main character in this play is Peachum, who considers misery as a past, and also Macheath, King of Bandits who forged a plot with a Police Commissioner in London named Brown. By Riantiarno, Die Dreigroschenoper was later actualized into his Opera Ikan Asin. As a work which is a presentation of the play created previously, Opera Ikan Asin has a new exist- ence. This existence is adjusted by the author's