Einführung in die Theater- und Performancetheorie: Grundbegriffe des Theaters
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- Subject according curriculum
- Introduction to theater and performance theory
- Teachers
- Prof. Dr. Miriam Dreysse
- Scope
- Fridays, 11:00 - 13:00 Start: Friday, 17.10.2025 Last session: Friday, 30.01.2026
- 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 fundamentals of the performing arts, we also practise reading theoretical texts. The selection includes texts by Hans-Thies Lehmann, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Jenny Schrödl, Josette Féral, Judith Butler and others.
- Literature
Christopher Balme: Introduction to Theater Studies. Berlin 1999 (4th edition: 2008).
Marvin Carlson: Performance, A Critical Introduction, London/NY: Routledge 1996.
Jan Deck, Angelika Siegburg (eds.): Paradoxien des Zuschauens. The Role of the Audience in Contemporary Theater, Bielefeld: transcript 2008.
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Theater Studies. An introduction to the basics of the subject, Tübingen: Narr Francke 2010.
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Aesthetics of the Performative. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2004.
Beate Hochholdinger-Reitinger/ Christina Thurner/ Julia Wehren (eds.): Theater und Tanz. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2023.
Andreas Kotte: Theater History. An Introduction, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau 2013.
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.
Gerald Siegmund: Theater- und Tanzperformance zur Einführung, Hamburg: Junius 2020.- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Comments
Weekly reading of a theoretical text; active participation in the sessions; writing of an excerpt (3-4 pages, depending on the form of study).
LASek/LAS-Sek: 3 CP
LAGS/LAS-G: 2 CP- Modules
- Theaterwissenschaftliche Grundlagen I