Einführung in die Theater- und Performancetheorie: Grundbegriffe des Theaters

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Subject according curriculum: Introduction to theater and performance theory
Teachers: Prof. Miriam Dreysse
Semester: Wintersemester 2024/2025
Scope: Fridays: 11:30 - 13:00 (start: 14.10.2024; last session: 31.01.2025)
Room: Wiesendamm - Raum 1.15 (Seminarraum 3)
Duration: 2 Semesterwochenstunden
Description: The seminar introduces the basics of theater studies and deals with basic concepts of theater such as performance, theatricality, performativity, acting, space, body, audience and related theoretical approaches. To this end, a text or text excerpt is read independently each week as homework and discussed together in the session. In addition to dealing with the basics of the performing arts, we also practise reading theoretical texts. The selection includes texts by Hans-Thies Lehmann, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Denis Diderot, Josette Féral, Judith Butler and others.
Literature: John L. Austin: Zur Theorie der Sprechakte (How to do Things with Words), Stuttgart: Reclam 1986.
Jan Deck, Angelika Siegburg (eds.): Paradoxien des Zuschauens. The role of the audience in contemporary theater, Bielefeld: transcript 2008.
Josette Féral: "Theatricality. The Specificity of theatrical language", in: Substance. A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, Vol. 31, No. 2/3, Issue 98/99: Special Issue: Theatricality (2002), pp. 94-108.
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Theater Studies. An introduction to the basics of the subject, Tübingen: Narr Francke 2010.
Erika Fischer-Lichte: "Einleitende Thesen zum Aufführungsbegriff", in: Kunst der Aufführung, Aufführung der Kunst, ed. by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Clemens Risi, Jens Roselt, Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2004, pp. 11-26.
Hans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatic Theater. Frankfurt/Main: Verlag der Autoren, 1999.
Jens Roselt (ed.): Souls with Method. Acting Theories from the Baroque to Postdramatic Theater, Berlin: Alexander Verlag 2005.
Credits: 2 Creditpoints
Comments: Academic achievement: Weekly reading of a theoretical text; active participation in the sessions; writing a reflection on a term (3-4 pages).
Modules: Theaterwissenschaftliche Grundlagen I