The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier : reinventing realism /
edited by Peter M. Boenisch.
- xxii, 208 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
- Methuen Drama engage .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
20 years of the Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Ambitions, achievements, transformations / The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Reinventing an institution -- The first season: The Mission (1999) / Between philosophical and sociological theatre: The political Regietheater of Peter Stein and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne Berlin / The Schaubühne's Civic Mission in the Age of Globalization: An Imaginary Island that Probes Society / 'Audiences know their cause will be treated': Making political theatre at the Schaubühne / Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne: Reinventing 'Directors' Theatre' -- Socialist Realism, Capitalist Realism, Ostermeier Realism / Thomas Ostermeier's Shakespeare productions: The mise en action of canonical plays / Hamlet out of joint: Variations on a theme in Thomas Ostermeier's production, 2008-2020 / Sensing the North: Thomas Ostermeier and the Schaubühne in Brazil b/ 9. Confronting the present: Thomas Ostermeier's post-conceptual Regietheater / The Schaubühne's experiments across forms and borders: Towards a new realism -- Theatre towards the liberation of thinking: Experimenting with realism(s) at the Schaubühne, 2000-2010 / Re-scripting Realism: Katie Mitchell and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne / Encountering the rage from the South: Latin American theatre at the Schaubühne's F.I.N.D. festival / Performing Bodies as a scenic playground of social realities: Choreographic Theatre at the Berlin Schaubühne / REST/less EXHAUSTION, SEMI-CALM: Some notes on Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk's Trust / Peter M BoenischI -- Thomas Ostermeier, Jens Hillje, Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig -- Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Ramona Mosse -- Thomas Ostermeier in conversation with Clare Finburgh DelijaniII -- Marvin Carlson -- Jitka Goriaux Pelechová -- Elisa Leroy -- Igor de Almeida Silva -- Peter M. BoenischIII -- Jens Hillje -- Benjamin Fowler -- Marina Ceppi -- Sabine Huschka -- Hans-Thies Lehmann. Preface: Part one. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part two. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part three. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
On the 20th anniversary of artistic director Thomas Ostermeier's time at Berlin's Schaubühne Theatre, this important study reflects on the contribution the theatre has made to contemporary theatre, not just in Germany, but around the world.Ostermeier has kept extending and refining the important notion of German Regietheater (directors' theatre) with the Schaubühne Theatre being its internationally famous birthplace under the previous artistic direction of Peter Stein. Through doing so, the work produced at the Schaubühne has transgressed established divides of text-based and devised theatre, and blurred the borders between theatre and dance.Combining scholarly reflection with interview material, this essential collection investigates how theatre has been reinvented by the Schaubühne under Ostermeier's tenure, bringing together international theatre scholars such as Erika Fischer-Lichte, Marvin Carlson, Jitka Goriaux Pelechova, Benjamin Fowler, Ramona Mosse and Sabine Huschka. This study also considers productions by some of Ostermeier's past and present collaborators, such as Katie Mitchell, Falk Richter and Sasha Waltz.This edition also includes the first English translation of Schaubühne's original manifesto “The Mission” (1999); a contribution from Ostermeier's long-term co-director Jens Hillje; a contribution from Hans-Thies Lehmann on Falk Richter; and an interview with Thomas Ostermeier by Clare Finburgh Delijani. --