CFP: Theatre and Internationalisation + Barrie Kosky: Past, Present, Future
The Department of International Studies: Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut invites abstracts for a joint conference in Sydney on 26-27 April 2019:
Theatre and Internationalisation and Barrie Kosky: Past, Present, Future
The conference will consist of parallel streams, joint sessions and a panel discussion at the Goethe-Institut on the above topics. 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Theatre and Internationalisation in the contexts of Australia and/or Germany, Austria and Switzerland and/or any aspect of the work and influence of Barrie Kosky (the Australian Intendant of the Komische Oper Berlin) should be submitted by e-mail to both Ulrike Garde (ulrike.garde@mq.edu.au) and John Severn (john.severn@mq.edu.au) by 17 September 2018.
Registration costs of $100 full price and $75 concessions include a light lunch on both days.
This conference is supported by the “Staging Migration in Berlin: Opera, Theatre, Performance, Film” research cluster in the Department of International Studies: Languages and Cultures, Macquarie University.
“KüstenLANDSCHAFTEN. Grenzen und Selektion – Unterbrechung und Störung”
Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Internationale Heiner Müller-Gesellschaft is seeking submissions for a conference commemorating the 90th birthday of Heiner Müller in March 2019:
“KüstenLANDSCHAFTEN. Grenzen und Selektion – Unterbrechung und Störung”
Papers in German and English are welcome.
Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2018 (one year in advance).
For details, see the CfP here:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/79435/discussions/1229730/cfp-k%C3%BCstenlandschaften-grenzen-und-selektion-%E2%80%93-unterbrechung-und
For information, contact:
till.nitschmann@germanistik.uni-hannover.de
or
florian.vassen@germanistik.uni-hannover.de
Working With Brecht / Baustelle Brecht 2018
(Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus in Berlin)
June 26, 2018
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2018
This is the second Working With Brecht/Baustelle Brecht event after a successful first iteration last summer. The idea behind Working With Brecht/Baustelle Brecht is to assemble an interesting group of younger scholars who are working in areas in and around Brecht and his successors, and to put together a one-day symposium demonstrating the depth and breadth of contemporary research in this area, particularly among younger, up-and-coming scholars. Last year the first half of the day was in English, and the second half of the day was in German, and we expect to follow a similar format this year. The call for proposals with further details can be accessed at: http://lfbrecht.de/cfp-working-with-brecht-ii-baustelle-brecht-ii/
CFP: Staging the Post-Dramatic: 21st-Century German Theater
Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Pittsburgh, PA
(Sep 30 2017; April 12-15 2018)
The theme of the 2018 Northeastern Modern Language Association’s annual convention is “Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds.” This panel explores how contemporary German-language theater creates spaces for new conversations about gender, ethnic identity, and other aspects of political and social reality. In 2001, Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatisches Theater theorized post-Brechtian theater. Is today still the age of post-dramatic theater? If not, what comes next?
How have Christoph Schlingensief and other recent directors fundamentally changed German-language theater today? How do prolific established dramatists such as Elfriede Jelinek and Rainald Goetz continue to push the stage in new directions? How do works such as René Pollesch’s Ruhrtrilogie open new conversations about media, interior/exterior space, and the public sphere? The New York Times’ Rachel Donadio has described new works performed by Berlin’s “Exil Ensemble” and Munich’s “Open Border Ensemble” as being “built around a journey rather than a plot.” Very recent pieces such as Yael Ronen’s “The Situation” (in German, English, Arabic, and Hebrew) and “Winterreise” (2017) attempt to strike a balance among historical situatedness, creative empowerment, polyglot linguistic practices, and political engagement. In response to these and other new developments, this panel seeks contributions that examine all aspects of recent innovations in German-language theater and drama.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical approaches to contemporary German-language theater and performance.
- Original literary analyses of contemporary theatrical works that address border crossings, ethnicity, and/or world-creation.
- New analyses of German-language theater or performance that engages with political and social change
- The creation and definition of theatrical spaces in the broader sense – politics as performance, teaching as theater, etc.
- The relationship of contemporary theater to text, storytelling, and collectivity.
Please submit abstracts of approximately 250 words, including the submitter’s biographical information through the NeMLA website: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/submit.html
Submission deadline: September 30, 2017
For inquiries about the panel, contact:
Pascale LaFountain, Assistant Professor of German and French, Montclair State University (lafountainp@montclair.edu)
Lisa Parkes, Senior Lecturer in German, Harvard University (lparkes@fas.harvard.edu)
CfP: The “Epic” Bertolt Brecht (Graduate Student Conference)
23–24 September, 2017, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
The Editors of the graduate student journal Focus on German Studies in conjunction with the Graduate Student Association of the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati present the Twenty-Second Annual Focus Graduate Student Conference:
The
“Epic”
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht is well-known for his “episches Theater,” a style of theater meant to provoke thought and reason in the audience over a sense of feeling and empathy with the performers. Yet, many believed Brecht ultimately failed in this regard to create truly epic theatre. In this conference, we seek to push the boundaries of the nature of the epic style and to highlight its successes and future as a viable and powerful style of theater, by exploring a wide range of live performance and film and media, both by and inspired by, Brecht.
Specifically, we are interested in creating panels that discuss the epic style in Brecht’s works of Spoken Theater and Musicals, Operas, Cabaret, Radio-plays and Cantatas, The Use of Screens in Live Performance, and the Epic Style in Screenplays and Film Studies, in the Weimar Republic, his Exile, and the GDR. We would also like to have a panel on the Epic Style in the Twenty-First Century and/or the Future of Epic Theater.
Current graduate students are invited to send 250-word abstracts to Ellen C. Chew at fogs.editor@gmail.com by July 9th, 2017. Submissions are welcome from any discipline. Papers may be presented in either German or English.
Lesser-known works are always encouraged! Graduate Students in German Studies, European Studies, History, Musicology, Theater and Performance Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Film and Media Studies are strongly encouraged to apply.
Workshop Program: Baustelle Brecht / Working with Brecht
Program now available for:
Baustelle Brecht / Working with Brecht
Fr. 23.06.2017 / 09:15 Uhr / Workshop
Eintritt frei!
GTPR Library: Member Works
Call for Submissions: Member Works Library
The GTPR Library is a forum intended to collect books, articles and other resources related to any topic of interest to the GTPR community.
The main GTPR Bibliographies [Library > Bibliographies] are imported via Zotero. To contribute to our bibliographies, please see full instructions here.
We are also eager to to showcase works by our GTPR members on the website [Library > Member Works]. If you would like to be included in our Member Works page, please email a list of your publications (books, articles, dramas, performances, etc.) to: gtpremail@gmail.com
A full citation and cover image (if available) will be posted on the Member Works page.
Members are welcome to submit multiple works.
Tagungsbericht: „Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde“
Kurzfassung des Tagungsberichtes: „Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde“
Den ganzen Bericht finden Sie hier.
„Avantgarde – Marmelade“[1] – gemäß dieses Diktums setzten sich auch die Vortragenden und Mitdiskutanten aus einzelnen Repräsentanten verschiedener Fachrichtungen zusammen, deren interdisziplinäre Beiträge sich zu einem frucht-baren Gesamteindruck formierten. Eine darauf aufbauende Publikation, welche die multiperspektivischen Ansätze der weiteren Schlingensiefforschung zugänglich wird, ist bereits in Entstehung.
Über die Verzahnung der Fachbereiche der Theater- und Musikwissenschaft, der Philosophie, Soziologie und Kunstgeschichte hinaus war es eine große Bereicherung, nicht nur Zeitzeugen sondern auch geschätzte Kollegen und Weggefährten Schlingensiefs in das somit wahrlich interdisziplinäre Kolloquium aktiv miteinbinden zu können.
Vor diesem Hintergrund ergaben sich auch verschiedene Formate der Diskussion (Fachvorträge, Narrationen und Reflexionen sowie ein Filmvortrag), welche – unbeabsichtigt Schlingensiefs multimediale Arbeitsweise imitierend – danach strebten ein umfassendes Bild Schlingensiefs Bezüge zu den (historischen) Avantgarden zu zeichnen. Dazu im Folgenden ausgewählte Quintessenzen[2]:
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1) Schlingensief hat sich während deines gesamten Schaffens sowohl direkt als mitunter auch indirekt auf wichtige Figuren der Avantgarde berufen: auf die Dadaisten, die Surrealisten, die Wiener Aktionisten und insbesondere auf Joseph Beuys. In seiner Performance Zweites Surrealistisches Manifest von André Breton – Tötet Helmut Kohl, 1996 offenbart Schlingensief jedoch einen Punkt, an dem er sich von den Surrealisten stark unterscheidet. Es handele sich hier mehr um eine besondere Verwendung von André Bretons Manifest, im Sinne eines Versuches der Strapazierfähigkeit der Grenzen von Kunst und Leben (Anna Teresa Scheer).
2) Die Berichte der Weggefährten Schlingensiefs lieferten einige relevante Hinweise zu Schlingensiefs Beziehung zu den Avantgarden: der Schauspieler Dietrich Kuhlbrodt erklärte, wie Schlingensief die „Zerstörung der normativen Schauspielleistung zugunsten von Spontaneität und Improvisation abzielte“. Schlingensief sei sogar, Jörg van der Horst zufolge, ein Avantgardist seiner Selbst: er bediene sich Elemente seiner früheren Arbeiten um sie collagengleich in neuen Werken wieder einzufügen. Im Bereich der Musik zog der Komponist Arno Waschk eine Parallele mit der Arbeit von John Cage: Schlingensief setzte sich auch intensiv mit dem Faktor Zufall auseinander, selbst wenn die beiden Künstler ihn anders in ihren Werken einsetzeten.
3) Anhand des Beispiels von Tunguska, die Kisten sind da wurde nachvollziehbar gemacht, wie Schlingensief durch die Verschmelzung von Kunst und Leben nach einer radikale Autonomie der Kunst strebte (Lore Knapp). Wenn Schlingensief die Praxis von anderen Avantgarde Künstlern wie Friedrich Kiesler wieder aufnehme, führe er dessen „Avantgarde-Tradition“ weiter: mit der Öffnung der Guckkastenbühne, der Bewegung der Zuschauer/innen und der Orientierung an Bewegungsformen der Alltags-und Trivialkultur (Teresa Kovacs). Aus der Perspektive des Re-Enactments der Wiener Aktionisten betrachtet, ist das Werk von Schlingensief besonders relevant: er befrage tatsächlich auf seine eigene Art die Geschichtlichkeit der Kunstprogramme der Neo-Avantgarden (Jasmin Degeling).
4) Durch seine innere Selbstreflexivität könne das Werk von Schlingensief eine Avantgarde Komponente beinhalten: durch seine ständige Beschäftigung mit der Grenze zwischen Kunst und Nichtkunst (Anna Tessa ZAHNER).
Hélisenne Lestringant/Ella Platschka
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[2] Eine ausführliche Übersicht sämtlicher Beiträge ist der ungekürzten Fassung des Tagungsberichtes zu entnehmen.
CfP: Brechtian and Wagnerian Aesthetics Today
Brechtian and Wagnerian Aesthetics Today
A special session for the Modern Language Association Convention in New York City, 4-7 January 2018, sponsored by the International Brecht Society.
Scholars have long questioned the dichotomy between the Epic Theater and Gesamtkunstwerk which Brecht sets up in his first major statement on the Epic Theater, “Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” In Wagners Aktualität, Theodor W. Adorno indicated that Wagner’s Ring is in a significant sense “epic,” due to its episodic structure and preference for narrative scenes over action. More recently, Joy Calico has traced the contours of the relationship between the Epic Theater and the Gesamtkunstwerk, showing how Brecht is indebted to Wagner’s opera not just because it offers a historical and political foil, but also because it is an important forerunner to his own attempts to rethink the contract with the audience and the relationship between music and the body onstage.
Recent works by Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek and others have further complicated the easy identification of Wagner’s art with reactionary politics. Artists themselves have also long combined the Wagnerian with the Brechtian to more-or-less self-conscious degrees (for example, in the films of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, the performance art of Christoph Schlingensief and Jonathan Meese, or the theater of Frank Castorf).
In our age of total digital distraction, has the dialectic of the Brechtian and Wagnerian reached an end? Are the categories of the Gesamtkunstwerk and Lehrstück, or techniques such as Verfremdung, Gestus, and historicization still coherent or useful in understanding contemporary works of art?
The International Brecht Society invites proposals on any aspect of the interplay between “Brechtian” and “Wagnerian” aesthetics – broadly conceived – in theater, music, film, television, or other media. Please submit ca. 200 word proposals and a short CV to Jack Davis (jackdavis@truman.edu) by Friday, 24 March 2017. Presenters must become MLA members by 7 April 2017.
Reminder: CfP, GSA 2017 – Panel Series: “Subjects of Performance”
Reminder: Abstracts due Monday, February 6
Call for Papers
GSA 2017, Atlanta, October 5-8
submission deadline: 6. February
Panel Series: “Subjects of Performance”
Organizers: Caroline Weist (University of Richmond) and Sara Jackson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), via GTPR
We invite proposals for individual papers or full panels to constitute a panel series on “Subjects of Performance.”
All live performance practices, by virtue of their inherently public and embodied nature, intervene – whether intentionally or implicitly – in the conception and politics of identity. Research in historical and contemporary theater, opera, dance, and performance art reveals consistent efforts to interrogate key categories of subject status and subjectivity such as nationality, gender, race, class, and the body. This panel series aims to explore this diverse field with particular attention to the ways in which German performances and performance practices have specifically intervened in the cultural and political production of normative and nonnormative subjects.
We invite proposals for individual papers (to be coordinated into panels) or full panels that fit within the series. Proposals can be related to any field of live performance (theater, dance, music, opera, performance art, etc.). Papers/panels may engage with areas of inquiry such as, but not limited to:
- the production or deconstruction of normative subjects
- the construction of certain embodied subjects as “other”
- the status of bodies (of performers and viewers) in live performance
- subjectivity and performance/performers
- the reconstruction of performing subjects and subjects of performance in historiography
- performance pedagogies that examine historical and contemporary subject formation
- specific categories of identity politics in performance such as race, gender, ability, nationality, and class
- research methodologies for recovering lost or erased subjects of performance
We particularly encourage proposals that interrogate the specific corporeal, spatial, temporal and material dimensions of live performance.
Send abstracts of 250w for individual papers, 500w for full panels, and a short bio by Monday, February 6 to: gtpremail@gmail.com
Please also indicate if you would be interested in serving as a panel moderator or commentator in addition to (or rather than) presenting a paper.
