The Resource Performing unification : history and nation in German theater after 1989, Matt Cornish
Performing unification : history and nation in German theater after 1989, Matt Cornish
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- Summary
- 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 M{uml}uller, 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- 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 : a society in transition
- Isbn
- 9780472123070
- Label
- Performing unification : history and nation in German theater after 1989
- Title
- Performing unification
- Title remainder
- history and nation in German theater after 1989
- Statement of responsibility
- Matt Cornish
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- German drama
- German drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Germany
- Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990 -- Influence
- Germany -- In literature
- History
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- 1900-1999
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | General
- Political plays, German
- Political plays, German -- History and criticism
- Theater
- Theater -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 M{uml}uller, 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Cornish, Matt
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Theater
- German drama
- Political plays, German
- Germany
- Germany
- PERFORMING ARTS
- German drama
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Literature
- Political plays, German
- Theater
- Germany
- Label
- Performing unification : history and nation in German theater after 1989, Matt Cornish
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- 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 : a society in transition
- Control code
- on1005346186
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780472123070
- Lccn
- 2017053706
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.3998/mpub.9406366
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1tw7szv
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1005346186
- Label
- Performing unification : history and nation in German theater after 1989, Matt Cornish
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 : a society in transition
- Control code
- on1005346186
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780472123070
- Lccn
- 2017053706
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.3998/mpub.9406366
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1tw7szv
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1005346186
Subject
- Electronic books
- German drama
- German drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Germany
- Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990 -- Influence
- Germany -- In literature
- History
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- 1900-1999
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | General
- Political plays, German
- Political plays, German -- History and criticism
- Theater
- Theater -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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