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Author : Otto Zoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The German Theatre Today written by Otto Zoff and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : London : Pitman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book German Theatre Today written by Michael Patterson and published by London : Pitman. This book was released on 1976 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Kuhns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521583403
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book German Expressionist Theatre written by David F. Kuhns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. This book describes three distinct Expressionist acting styles, all of which in their own ways attempted to show how symbolic stage performance could be a powerful rhetorical resource for a culture struggling to come to terms with the crises of historical change. The examination of Expressionist script and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of acting itself.
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317266854
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The First German Theatre (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces the rapid commercial decline that made it difficult for Kleist and impossible for Büchner to see their plays staged in their own lifetime. Four representative texts are analysed: Schiller’s The Robbers, Goethe’s Iphigenia on Tauris, Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg, and Büchner’s Woyzeck. This title will be of interest to students of theatre and German literature.
Author : Hiram Kelly Moderwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Today written by Hiram Kelly Moderwell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317217926
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla, Such is Life! And Brecht’s Man show the similarities and differences in political theatre. In addition, elements of stage-craft are examined — illustrated with tabulated information, an extensive chronology, and photographs and designs of productions.
Author : Anselm Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317628861
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation written by Anselm Heinrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War went beyond previous military conflicts. It was not only about specific geographical gains or economic goals, but also about the brutal and lasting reshaping of Europe as a whole. Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation explores the part that theatre played in the Nazi war effort. Using a case-study approach, it illustrates the crucial and heavily subsidised role of theatre as a cultural extension of the military machine, key to Nazi Germany’s total war doctrine. Covering theatres in Oslo, Riga, Lille, Lodz, Krakau, Warsaw, Prague, The Hague and Kiev, Anselm Heinrich looks at the history and context of their operation; the wider political, cultural and propagandistic implications in view of their function in wartime; and their legacies. Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation focuses for the first time on Nazi Germany’s attempts to control and shape the cultural sector in occupied territories, shedding new light on the importance of theatre for the regime’s military and political goals.
Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521855143
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre written by David Barnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298929
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War written by Marvin Carlson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In almost every area of production, German theatre of the past forty years has achieved a level of distinction unique in the international community. This flourishing theatrical culture has encouraged a large number of outstanding actors, directors, and designers as well as video and film artists. The dominant figure throughout these years, however, has remained the director. In this stimulating and informative book, noted theatre historian Marvin Carlson presents an in-depth study of the artistic careers, working methods, and most important productions of ten of the leading directors of this great period of German staging. Beginning with the leaders of the new generation that emerged in the turbulent late 1960s—Peter Stein, Peter Zadek, and Claus Peymann, all still major figures today—Carlson continues with the generation that appeared in the 1980s, particularly after reunification—Frank Castorf, Anna Viebrock, Andrea Breth, and Christoph Marthaler—and concludes with the leading directors to emerge after the turn of the century, Stefan Pucher, Thomas Ostermeier, and Michael Thalheimer. He also provides information not readily available elsewhere in English on many of the leading actors and dramatists as well as the designers whose work, much of it for productions of these directors, has made this last half century a golden age of German scenic design. During the late twentieth century, no country produced so many major theatre directors or placed them so high in national cultural esteem as Germany. Drawing on his years of regular visits to the Theatertreffen in Berlin and other German productions, Carlson will captivate students of theatre and modern German history and culture with his provocative, well-illustrated study of the most productive and innovative theatre tradition in Europe.
Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299348
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre written by Jeanette R. Malkin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is common knowledge that Jews were prominent in literature, music, cinema, and science in pre-1933 Germany, the fascinating story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre is less often discussed. Yet for a brief time, during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic, Jewish artists and intellectuals moved away from a segregated Jewish theatre to work within canonic German theatre and performance venues, claiming the right to be part of the very fabric of German culture. Their involvement, especially in the theatre capital of Berlin, was of a major magnitude both numerically and in terms of power and influence. The essays in this stimulating collection etch onto the conventional view of modern German theatre the history and conflicts of its Jewish participants in the last third of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries and illuminate the influence of Jewish ethnicity in the creation of the modernist German theatre. The nontraditional forms and themes known as modernism date roughly from German unification in 1871 to the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933. This is also the period when Jews acquired full legal and trade equality, which enabled their ownership and directorship of theatre and performance venues. The extraordinary artistic innovations that Germans and Jews co-created during the relatively short period of this era of creativity reached across the old assumptions, traditions, and prejudices that had separated people as the modern arts sought to reformulate human relations from the foundations to the pinnacles of society. The essayists, writing from a variety of perspectives, carve out historical overviews of the role of theatre in the constitution of Jewish identity in Germany, the position of Jewish theatre artists in the cultural vortex of imperial Berlin, the role played by theatre in German Jewish cultural education, and the impact of Yiddish theatre on German and Austrian Jews and on German theatre. They view German Jewish theatre activity through Jewish philosophical and critical perspectives and examine two important genres within which Jewish artists were particularly prominent: the Cabaret and Expressionist theatre. Finally, they provide close-ups of the Jewish artists Alexander Granach, Shimon Finkel, Max Reinhardt, and Leopold Jessner. By probing the interplay between “Jewish” and “German” cultural and cognitive identities based in the field of theatre and performance and querying the effect of theatre on Jewish self-understanding, they add to the richness of intercultural understanding as well as to the complex history of theatre and performance in Germany.
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521224420
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Peter Stein: Germany's Leading Theatre Director written by Michael Patterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, Michael Patterson's was the first book in any language to be devoted to the work of Germany's leading theatre director. Peter Stein's thoughtful and critical approach to a variety of dramatic texts - from Irish comedy to German classics, where his reputation largely rests - has resulted in a range of different acting and formal styles and some major textual adaptations. The rehearsing, performance and reception of these are thoroughly and vividly recreated here from interviews and archives and in the first-hand account of the workings of the theatre Stein made his own, the Schaubühne in West Berlin. Patterson discusses the apparent contradictions between the Schaubühne's original ideals as a model of socialist theatre and its present situation as one of the most highly subsidizes stages in Western Europe. Many productions are illustrated by photographs and imaginative reconstructions of particular scenes.
Author : Peter Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136118128
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Peter Nagy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre:Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided into twelve sections - History, Structure of the National Theatre Community, Artistic Profile, Music Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Puppet Theatre, Design, Theatre, Space and Architecture, Training, Criticism, Scholarship and Publishing and Further Reading - allowing the reader to use the book as a source for both area and subject studies.
Author : Simon Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521175357
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (753 download)
Download or read book A History of German Theatre written by Simon Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering German-language theatre from the Middle Ages to the present day, this study demonstrates how and why theatre became so important in German-speaking countries. Written by leading international scholars of German theatre, chapters cover all aspects of theatrical performance, including acting, directing, play-writing, scenic design and theatre architecture. The book argues that theatre is more central to the artistic life of German-speaking countries than anywhere else in the world. Relating German-language theatre to its social and intellectual context, the History demonstrates how theatre has often been used as a political tool. It challenges the idea that German theatre was undeveloped in contrast to other European countries in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, provides a thematic survey of the crucial period of growth in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and discusses modern and contemporary German theatre by focusing in turn on the directors, playwrights, designers and theatre architecture.
Author : Ulrike Garde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000208958
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Theatre and Internationalization written by Ulrike Garde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre and Internationalization examines how internationalization affects the processes and aesthetics of theatre, and how this art form responds dramatically and thematically to internationalization beyond the stage. With central examples drawn from Australia and Germany from the 1930s to the present day, the book considers theatre and internationalization through a range of theoretical lenses and methodological practices, including archival research, aviation history, theatre historiography, arts policy, organizational theory, language analysis, academic-practitioner insights, and literary-textual studies. While drawing attention to the ways in which theatre and internationalization might be contributing productively to each other and to the communities in which they operate, it also acknowledges the limits and problematic aspects of internationalization. Taking an unusually wide approach to theatre, the book includes chapters by specialists in popular commercial theatre, disability theatre, Indigenous performance, theatre by and for refugees and other migrants, young people as performers, opera and operetta, and spoken art theatre. An excellent resource for academics and students of theatre and performance studies, especially in the fields of spoken theatre, opera and operetta studies, and migrant theatre, Theatre and Internationalization explores how theatre shapes and is shaped by international flows of people, funds, practices, and works.
Author : George W. Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521233835
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (338 download)
Download or read book German and Dutch Theatre, 1600-1848 written by George W. Brandt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-27 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe. This book makes available for the first time an overview of a significant segment of European theatre history and, with few exceptions, none of the documents presented have been published in English before. Gathered from a rich variety of sources, including imperial and municipal edicts, contracts, architectural descriptions, playbills, stage directions and actors' memoirs among others, the book sheds light on one of the most fascinating areas of cultural life in the German- and Dutch-speaking countries. Explanatory passages put these documents into their historical context, and numerous illustrations bring the material even more vividly to life. Also included is the source location for each document and a substantial bibliography.
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296304
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-06-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern drama in theory and ... /J.L. Styan.-v.3.
Author : Fritz A. H. Leuchs
Publisher : Columbia University Germanic Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Early German Theatre in New York, 1840-1872 written by Fritz A. H. Leuchs and published by Columbia University Germanic Studies. This book was released on 1928 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the development of German theatre in New York City in the nineteenth century, focusing on the influence of five major theatres. .
