{"product_id":"theatre-in-the-berlin-republic-german-drama-since-reunification-9783039111107","title":"Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book contains the proceedings of a symposium that took place in Melbourne in September 2006. Its focus is on theatre at the intersection of culture and politics during and after German reunification and the evolution of the Berlin Republic. The book considers how canonical and new theatrical works, including those performed at the renowned former East German theatres – the Deutsches Theater, the Volksbühne and the Berliner Ensemble – resonated with reunification. Topics include the dynamics of theatrical performance, the emergent performative identities, the new alliances between theatre and the world, the re-engagement with history and the shifting perspectives of nationalism, transnationalisation and globalisation. These matters acquire renewed focus with the approach of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall in 2009. The book is the first to offer English-speaking readers a collection of essays on the key theatrical productions of this dynamic period of cultural and political change. Underlying the collection is a reaffirmation of the continuing relevance of theatre to events in the public sphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Denise Varney: Theatre in the Berlin Republic: Introduction – Alison Lewis: German Reunification and the Postwar Alliance between German Politics and Culture – Sabine Zolchow: The Island of Berlin – Birgit Haas: The Return of Dramatic Drama in Germany after 1989 – Moray McGowan: What was the \u003ci\u003eWende \u003c\/i\u003eand what of the \u003ci\u003eVolk\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003ci\u003eFidelio\u003c\/i\u003e’s questions and the \u003ci\u003eWeavers\u003c\/i\u003e’ answers – Laura Bradley: Contesting the Legacies of Socialism: Brecht’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mother \u003c\/i\u003ein the Berlin Republic – Laura Ginters: \u003ci\u003eWir sind das Volk! \u003c\/i\u003eHow a failed revolutionary wrote about the French Revolution - and thereby helped cause one 154 years later: Georg Büchner’s \u003ci\u003eDantons Tod \u003c\/i\u003eon the German stage – Denise Varney: Hurting. Hurting. Hurting: Gendered Representations of Reunification in Post-\u003ci\u003eWende \u003c\/i\u003eTheatre by Women – Gert Reifarth: Fostering Cultural Schizophrenia: East German Theatres Re-create the GDR – Alexandra Kolb: Goodbye GDR! German Reunification in Johann Kresnik’s \u003ci\u003eWendewut \u003c\/i\u003e– John Guthrie: Classical Plays on the Berlin Stage. Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus (Schändung) \u003c\/i\u003eand Schiller’s \u003ci\u003eMaria Stuart \u003c\/i\u003e– Katrin Sieg: German Theatre and Globalisation.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043729834327,"sku":"9783039111107","price":61.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039111107.jpg?v=1750959258","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theatre-in-the-berlin-republic-german-drama-since-reunification-9783039111107","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}