...Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1977 1977 Danton's Death in East Berlin Joel Schechter Bertolt Brecht once observed that political and cultural repression in the morous poem by Brecht advising the Germany's "literary history does...

...- ties in which puppets have expressed or defined communal identity and continue to do so today, when traditional forms overcome apparent dichotomies — past and present, tradition and innovation, low-tech and high-tech, self and other, East and West — and stress continuity and connection...

... performance by your favorite rock star, so much the better.” Theater 41:1  doi 10.1215/01610775-2010-016 © 2011 by Miriam Felton-­Dansky 5 davis Near East Ryan M. Davis Noor Theatre — ­a new company dedicated...

... Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 EAST AND WEST: OUTREACH OUTLINED a - AND Theater as Learning Tool began...

...Susan Mason Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 ROMEO AND JULIET IN EAST LA. SUSAN MASON keletons wearing Converse All drugs: and teen-age...

...Walter Felsenstein Copyright © by yale/theatre 1975 1975 FELSENSTEIN Walter Felsenstein is the foremost living director of opera and musical theater. The company he founded in East Berlin, the Komische Oper, has become since its inception...

...Joel Schechter Heiner Muller and Other East German Dramaturgs By Joel Schechter Heiner Miiller, one of East Germany’s most Few of the dramaturgs whom Miiller has met important playwrights, is also a dramaturgat the in East Germany favorably impressed him. He Berliner...

..., Heiner Muller directed his play at the venerable Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. At fmt glance, there may seem nothing particularly remarkable about Muller's staging of his own play, givcn the interest in his work over the last years. The playwright has since 1954 been...

... across a courtyard of GDR plat- tenbauten to the new skyline of Potsdamer Platz. To the left, three cranes in constant slow motion create the impression that the prefab concrete-slab façades, so character- istic of East German low-cost urban housing, are being welded to the brick Daim- ler/Chrysler...

... of East German But it‘s not only a matter of language. We can’t yet quite writers whose previously censored writing is now receiving see, think, assess, judge, and evaluate the new state of new attention in both Germanys. His 1987 play Carmen things. We don’t yet know how to deal with democratic...

... in the West has night the streetlights cast a bluish light the edge of the square. even reached the Middle East. At the upon its walls. Nearby, an old woman Despite the fact that traditional Islam same time, there is a fundamentalist squats selling tawdry religious trinkets; condemns...

...- ties in which puppets have expressed or defined communal identity and continue to do so today, when traditional forms overcome apparent dichotomies — past and present, tradition and innovation, low-tech and high-tech, self and other, East and West — and stress continuity and connection...

..., they know what to expect when they purchase their tickets. Unless they visit a performance by Karen Finley, the production will remain well within generally accepted standards of decency. Even at Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an off -off -Broadway rock musical about a post-op transsexual from East Berlin...

... of vulgar forms. Let me call the eastern Vienna. All the scenes are about immigrants world Byzantium. It is a closed society, from the East stashed in transit limbo: a vertical, patriarchal, macho, rural . . . no drunken patriot, a whore...

..., the year of Brecht’s death, he wrote American audiences; almost all of his plays his first major play, The Rate Buster, deal with East Germany’s postwar socialist which earned him recognition in Germany...

... - which combines the ing stood for centuries and still structurally sound, was never- East German premiere of Das ktzteBand (Krapp’sLast Zhpe) theless dismantled after the war as a symbolic gesture of vic- with a musical version of Brecht’s poem Die Erziehung der tory for the new order. Thus...

... of the demonstrators: East German in Vienna. Photo: David Baltzer youths in bomber jackets marauding through drab dorm cities. Through various and constant portrayals, the media suggest that these youths epitomize the entire phenom- enon; they are neatly packaged as the GDR’s...

... Kofi? george Yassir? Yassir Arafat is in george That’s what I want to know. China? I thought he was in the george Milk! Will you please make Middle East. the call? condi That’s what I’m telling you...

... of “Bring station to attend this year’s Theater der Welt - back the GDR!” versus “GDR: Never Again!” the first to take place in former East German The portraits and the anger they expressed territory - immediately saw that the 1996 festival - and provoked, as evidenced by the graffiti...