The Historical Experience in German Drama

The Historical Experience in German Drama
Author: Alan Menhennet
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571132550

Major figures treated include Gryphius, Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Schnitzler, and Brecht. There is no competing work in English."--BOOK JACKET.

Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater

Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater
Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2017
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1571139982

Analyzes not just Müller's texts but also the theatrical events that emerged from them, showing that from the beginning of his career Müller tried to create democracy both within and outside the theater.

Germany in Europe in the Nineties

Germany in Europe in the Nineties
Author: Bertel Heurlin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349251143

What will be the future of Germany? Will Germany remain a 'soft power', pursuing a 'bind me, love me'-policy or will we see a new Germany signalling strength and power based on nationalism and German identity? The book, written by well-known German, British, French, Russian, Danish and American scholars, attempts to present contrasting analyses on different levels of the general political dimension and position of the united Germany in Europe.

Theatre in the Berlin Republic

Theatre in the Berlin Republic
Author: Denise Varney
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9783039111107

This work's focus is on theatre at the intersection of culture and politics during and after German reunification and the evolution of the Berlin Republic. It contains the proceedings of a symposium that took place in Melbourne in September 2006.

Performing Unification

Performing Unification
Author: Matt Cornish
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472037560

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while others opposed the very act of storytelling. Performing Unification examines how directors, playwrights, and theater groups including Heiner Müller, Frank Castorf, and Rimini Protokoll have represented and misrepresented the past, confronting their nation’s history and collective identity. Matt Cornish surveys German-language history plays from the Baroque period through the documentary theater movement of the 1960s to show how German identity has always been contested, then turns to performances of unification after 1989. Cornish argues that theater, in its structures and its live gestures, on pages, stages, and streets, helps us to understand the past and its effect on us, our relationships with others in our communities, and our futures. Engaging with theater theory from Aristotle through Bertolt Brecht and Hans-Thies Lehmann’s “postdramatic” theater, and with theories of history from Hegel to Walter Benjamin and Hayden White, Performing Unification demonstrates that historiography and dramaturgy are intertwined.

Screening the Past

Screening the Past
Author: Tony Barta
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1998-08-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 031302362X

Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of the past created by film, television, and video are only now attracting closer attention from historians, cultural critics, and filmmakers. This volume seeks to advance the critical exploration scholars have recently begun. Barta begins by addressing the various ways the past is screened for our understanding and relates the art of film to other media. The essays that follow deal primarily with the changing perspectives of political and social developments—and changing concepts of ideology, gender, or culture—in films and television programs made for historically shaped reasons. Chapters by filmmakers explore issues of context and intent in their own projects. Scholars and general readers interested in film and cultural studies will find this an important volume.

Contemporary British Television Crime Drama

Contemporary British Television Crime Drama
Author: Ruth McElroy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317160959

Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures. Crime drama offers audiences stories of right and wrong, moral authority asserted and resisted, and professionals and criminals, doing so in ways that are often highly entertaining, innovative, and thought provoking. In examining the appeal of this highly dynamic genre, this volume explores how it responds not only to changing social debates on crime and policing, but also to processes of hybridization within the television industry itself. Contributors, many of whom are leading figures in UK television studies, analyse popular series such as Broadchurch, Between the Lines, Foyle’s War, Poirot, Prime Suspect, Sherlock and Wallander. Essays examine the main characteristics of television crime drama production, including the nature of trans-Atlantic franchises and literary and transnational adaptations. Adopting a range of feminist, historical, aesthetic and industrial approaches, they offer incisive interrogations that provide readers with a rich understanding of the allure of crime drama to both viewers and commissioners.