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Performing unification : history and nation in German theater after 1989 / Matt Cornish.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PN2654 .C67 2017

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    "Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the most 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 German 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. While scholars and critics have scrutinized unification in cinema and literature, this is the first book to focus on theater and performance. Author Matt Cornish surveys German-language history plays from the Baroque period through Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Brecht, and up to the documentary theater movement of the 1960s to show how German identity has always been contested, even well before Germany became a nation. Then turning 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 also with theories of history from Hegel to Walter Benjamin and Hayden White, Performing Unification demonstrates that historiography and dramaturgy are intertwined." -- Publisher's description
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Cornish, Matt, author.
    Published
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
    ©2017
    Locale
    Germany
    Contents
    Prologue: Berlin, Alexanderplatz
    History and nation in German drama before 1989
    Unification as drama
    Western playwrights and counternarratives of unification
    Allegory and antiallegory in the Ost
    Eastern directors and postdramatic historiography
    Performing archives and museums in the Freie Szene
    Epilogue: hybridized history.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Prologue: Berlin, Alexanderplatz -- History and nation in German drama before 1989 -- Unification as drama -- Western playwrights and counternarratives of unification -- Allegory and antiallegory in the Ost -- Eastern directors and postdramatic historiography -- Performing archives and museums in the Freie Szene -- Epilogue: hybridized history.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780472130450
    0472130455
    Physical Description
    vii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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