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...Heiner Müller Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 S HTE SCENES FROM GERMANY EWER MUJk Wanslated by Marc I). Silberman...

... at the Kammerspiele. A train trip from Northern to Southern Germany offers a first-hand experience of the geography of Kroetz's plays, from the desolate neatness of rows of soot-covered houses in the industrial Ruhr area to the awesome historicity of the medieval castles atop vineyard-covered hills along the Rhine...

...David Byrne An excerpt from David Byrne's screen treatment of The Forest which is to be filmed in Germany sometime next year: Copyright © THEATER 1988 1988 THE FOREST: AN INTRODUCTION AND TWO SCENES...

... festival, 2019 Nobody taught me to be Black, and yet I knew I was and I knew where it came from. I was taught that I was lucky in comparison to my father s childhood, which meant that I was supposed to be eternally grateful for being born in Germany and sub- sequently, if I followed my mother s thoughts...

...Jack Zipes DramaContemporary: Germany edited by Carl Weber, 1996: Johns Hopkins University Press. Copyright © Theater 1997 1997 BOOKS effect seem clear. Later the sequences veer JACK ZIPES from the recognizable into the writer’s personal hallucinations. Aeneas puts...

... story in 1947 about the Broadway opera Street Scene and its “German composer,” Kurt Weill fired off a letter to the editor: “I have a gentle beef about one of your phrases. Although I was born in Germany, I do not consider myself...

...Tamara Levitz © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000 10-The30.3-Levitz.ak 96-105 10/18/00 11:31 AM Page 96 Theo Adam as Abraham and Raphael Hering as Isaac in Weill’s The Eternal Road, Chemnitz, Germany, 1999...

... Daniel Brunet A poster advertising the revival of a play caused the bitter cold of Berlin’s 2012 winter to thaw quickly amid a firestorm of controversy, launching a national debate on the portrayal of race on stage in Germany. The poster, for us playwright Herb Gardner’s popular 1984 comedy Ich...

... Daniel Brunet A poster advertising the revival of a play caused the bitter cold of Berlin’s 2012 winter to thaw quickly amid a firestorm of controversy, launching a national debate on the portrayal of race on stage in Germany. The poster, for us playwright Herb Gardner’s popular 1984 comedy Ich...

...Thomas Irmer © 2002 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2002 Christoph Schlingensief ’s Hamlet in Zurich. Photo: Leonard Zubler Thomas Irmer Translated by Claudia Wilsch Out with the Right! Or, Let’s Not Let Them in Again Germany is full of earnest attempts...

... 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...

..., some core of fact, if not unassailable, at least Their Shakespeare occasionally accurate. The first recorded Eng- lish-language performance in Germany—most Shakespeare on the German Stage: probably of Shakespeare...

...- tations of the Cold War geopolitical climate. In a nation split into two camps, each representing an opposing side in a major global conflict, political theater — as devised by Brecht and refined by Heiner Müller — came to dominate both East and West Germany’s cultural institutions. After the wall...

... describes gestes without a reference system. It is not oriented toward I The default of the bourgeois revolution in Germany made possi- a movement (praxis), it is not reduceable to a meaning, it is strange blc and at the same time necessitated Weirnar classicism as the subla- rather than estranging...

... political theaters tions by Hugh Rorrison, Avon Press: New York, 1978). First know very little about this man and his work, despite the fact that published in 1929, this book is a documentation of Piscator's work he was one of the main influences on Brecht and a host of other in Germany and consists...

... involved as dramaturg, adapter. and translator with various theaters in East Germany (the German Democratic Republic): the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Berlin Ensemble, the Volksbuhne and the Deutsches Theater. In the last five years he has also tried his hand at staging his own plays, both in East...

... 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 development (a chapter of contemporary...

... adopted three sea- Germany for over 20 years; in 1981 he left its sons ago, giving them for the first time in their system of large permanent repertory houses to career decent working conditions and his establish his own group, Theater an der Ruhr, apparatus’s support in organizing tours located...

...Peter M. Boenisch Julia Wissert s 2170 Was wird die Stadt gewesen sein, in der wir leben werden? (2170 What Will the City Have Been in Which We Will Have Lived Schauspiel Dortmund, Dort­mund, Germany, 2020. Photo: Birgit Hupfeld Peter M. Boenisch Institutional Dramaturgies in Ger man...

... of a respectable Ger- The highly-institutionalized civic and state theater system of West man family, hard to conceive for anyone growing up under looser Germany also has its formative effects on those who work within it. A American educational conditions. man who loves...