Jelinek in Practice
German Directors’ Theatre, Politics and Aesthetics
Jelinek in Practice
German Directors’ Theatre, Politics and Aesthetics
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Nobel prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most important contemporary authors writing in German and one of the most performed dramatists on German speaking stages. 'Theatre would have to be a kind of refusal', she once proclaimed. Despite the fact that her no-longer-dramatic, intertextual and punning theatre texts are considered demanding, major directors have tackled them in highly innovative and acclaimed productions that 'refuse' theatre as usual.
This book provides the first systematic exploration of the dynamics between Jelinek as a writer of political and increasingly open texts and the diverse postdramatic approaches of directors such as Einar Schleef, Jossi Wieler, Christoph Schlingensief, Nicolas Stemann, Karin Beier and Johan Simons. Through detailed analyses of the relationships between text, direction, dramaturgy, scenography, media, performance and spectatorship in exemplary productions it articulates their methods and political stakes. In doing so it also provides a corrective to a prevalent understanding of postdramatic theatre as primarily 'non-text-based' theatre, showing that texts can drive and be driven by creative postdramatic directorial approaches that help to shape contemporary theatre.
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Introduction: Elfriede Jelinek and Postdramatic Director's Theatre
1: Early Directorial Approaches: Hans Hollmann, Ulrike Ottinger, Frank Castorf and Thirza Brunken
2: Agon, Conflict and Dissent: Einar Schleef's Choric Staging of Ein Sportstück [Sports Play, 1998]
3: Uncanny Memory Theatre: Jossi Wieler's Productions of Wolken.Heim [Clouds.Home, 1993] and Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) [Rechnitz (The Exterminating Angel), 2008]
4: Exposing Mediatisation through Intermedial Play: Christoph Schlingensief's Bambiland (2003)
5: The Politics of Process: Nicolas Stemann's Ulrike Maria Stuart (2006); Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns [The Merchants Contracts, 2009]; Die Schutzbefohlenen (2014)
6: (G)local Environmental Politics: Karin Beier's Das Werk/Im Bus/Ein Sturz (The Works/On the Bus/A Collapse, 2011)
7: Parasitic Politics: Nicolas Stemann and Dušan David Parižek Staging of the 'Secondary Dramas' Abraumhalde [Slagheap] and FaustIn and out
8: Gender Politics: 2 x Winterreise [Winter Journey] staged by Johan Simons and Anne Lenk
9. Epilogue: Jelinek in and beyond German Director's Theatre
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Apr 01 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781474271356 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 14 bw illus |
| Series | Methuen Drama Engage |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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