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Theatre in the Berlin Republic : German drama since reunification / Denise Varney (ed.).

Title
  1. Theatre in the Berlin Republic : German drama since reunification / Denise Varney (ed.).
Published by
  1. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2008.

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Additional authors
  1. Varney, Denise
Description
  1. 335 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. This work's focus is on theatre at the intersection of culture and politics during and after German reunification and the evolution of the Berlin Republic. It contains the proceedings of a symposium that took place in Melbourne in September 2006.
Series statement
  1. German linguistic and cultural studies ; v. 24
Uniform title
  1. German linguistic and cultural studies v. 24.
Subject
  1. 1900-2099
  2. German drama > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses
  3. German drama > 21st century > History and criticism > Congresses
  4. Theater > Germany > History > 20th century > Congresses
  5. Theater > Germany > History > 21st century > Congresses
  6. Political plays, German > History and criticism > Congresses
  7. Germany > History > Influence > Unification, 1990 > Congresses
  8. Germany > In literature > Congresses
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  3. History
Contents
  1. Theatre in the Berlin Republic: introduction / Denise Varney -- German reunification and the postwar alliance between German politics and culture / Alison Lewis -- The island of Berlin / Sabine Zolchow -- The return of dramatic drama in Germany after 1989 / Birgit Haas -- What was the Wende and what of the Volk? Fidelio's questions and the Weavers' answers / Moray McGowan -- Contesting the legacies of socialism: Brecht's The mother in the Berlin Republic / Laura Bradley -- Wir sind das Volk! How a failed revolutionary wrote about the French Revolution -- and thereby helped cause one 154 years later: Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod on the German stage / Laura Ginters -- Hurting. Hurting. Hurting: gendered representations of reunification in post-Wende theatre by women / Denise Varney -- Fostering cultural schizophrenia: East German theatres re-create the GDR / Gert Reifarth -- Goodbye GDR! German reunification in Johann Kresnik's Wendewut / Alexandra Kolb -- Classical plays on the Berlin stage. Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (Schändung) and Schiller's Maria Stuart / John Guthrie -- German theatre and globalisation / Katrin Sieg.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Conference proceedings.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain