...Marit Grøtta Abstract The Nature theater of Oklahama in Der Verschollene is one of Kafka’s most enigmatic inventions, widely known through Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s reading of it as a theater of gestures. This article explores the intertextual archive of Kafka’s novel, bringing...

... discussion of the liturgical gesture of the Jewish holiday. It suggests that Rosenzweig models this most significant moment as a form of “sacred theater” depicting the Wagnerian “music opera.” Through this analysis, not only does “drama” emerge as the link between the three sections of Der Stern...

... of instruction and indoctrination while also giving new insight into his embrace of proletarian children’s theater and epic theater as preferred educational practices. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Walter Benjamin educational philosophy theater fascism...

...Norbert Otto Eke One of the most complicated questions in film and theater relating to the Shoah is how to render the events visible. Through an analysis of Michael Glawogger's Kill Daddy Goodnight , a film based on the eponymous novel by the Austrian writer Josef Haslinger, this article outlines...

... attacks on German theaters, the article describes the framing as alternating and conflicting and emphasizes the relationship of history, media, and memory. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 terrorism Holocaust Israel docudrama media cinema To communicate, understand...

... with him,” Müller once said, “is that he permits the individual parts, the elements of theater, their own freedom. Wilson never interprets; a text is simply there and it is served up, and not tainted in any way and not explained. It is there. And in the same way an image is there, and the image...

... ; Magelssen, Living History Museums ; McCalman and Pickering, Historical Reenactment ; and Agnew and Lamb, Settler and Creole Reenactment . Rebecca Schneider’s excellent book Performing Remains brings together a whole range of reenactments in art, theater, photography, and living history. 5...

...Michael D. Richardson New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Allegories and Ends: Heiner Müllerʼs Ham letmaschine Michael D. Richardson When the Deutsches Theater Berlin reopened on September 7, 1945, its selec- tion for its premiere was signifi cant...

...Figure 12. László Moholy-Nagy (and Lucia Moholy?), photomontage for projection in The Merchant of Berlin , Piscator Theater (1929). ...

... Müller appeared to have escaped the tag “East German author” and, propelled by the interest of theater people in Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, in North America, attained the stature of an international fi gure. Much like his predecessor Bertolt Brecht, Müller has been, since his...

... theater dedicated to the ʻscientifi c generation of scan- dals4 Müller and Brecht, in other words, as men of the theater, similarly 2. See, e.g., Helmut Schödel, “Im Tal der Ahnungslosen,” Die Zeit, May 31, 1996; Christian Gampert, “Der Nachkrieg ist vorbei,” Freitag, May 31, 1996; Gerhard...

... voiced grave concerns. Cin- ema was perceived as a threat to the health, tastes, and morals of mass audi- ences as well as a danger to established cultural institutions like the theater. Even more important, cinema’s technological character raised fundamental questions about the nature of art...

.... John E. Davidson 105 fi lm director who in his later years devoted himself to researching sexuality in the history of representation. His fi ve-volume Mimus Eroticus explores the relation of the theater and theatricality to the sexual substrata of society from the Greeks down to the present.6...

... by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 I wish to express my gratitude to Nils Tabert at the Rowohlt Theaterverlag, who made available the play's original script; to Insa Popken for answering questions about the stage adaptation; to the Hebbel-am-Ufer theater for providing me with additional materials...

... 10.1215/0094033X-2006-014 © 2006 by New German Critique, Inc. 151 152 The Terror of Reproduction theater actor played the leading role.2 Albert Bassermann, who worked with Max Reinhardt in the Deutsches...

... Lydia Moland In 2007 the maverick German theater director Peter Stein extended his streak of Herculean theatrical accomplishments to include a ten-hour, single-day production of Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein. Beyond the appeal of adding this feat to his seven-hour Oresteia and twenty-one...

... Untergrund: Zur Dialektik von Grund und Oberfl äche im Denken Heiner Müllers” (MA thesis, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2001). 8. Heiner Müller, “Brief an den Regisseur der bulgarischen Erstaufführung von Philoktet am dramatischen Theater Sofi a,” in Werke 8, Schriften, ed. Frank Hörnigk (Frankfurt am...