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Embodied Memory
In Embodied Memory, Anat Feinberg offers the first English-language study of the controversial dramatist George Tabori. A Jewish-Hungarian playwright and novelist, Tabori is a unique figure in postwar German theatre -- one of the few theatre people since Bertolt Brecht to embody "the ideal union" of playwright, director, theatre manager, and actor. Revered as a "theatre guru, " Tabori's career, first in the United States and later in Germany, is fraught with controversy.
Open Wounds
Explores the irreverent theater of George Tabori and its enduring legacy within Holocaust theater
Knowledge, Normativity and Power in Academia
Despite its capacity to produce knowledge that can directly influence policy and affect social change, academia is still often viewed as a stereotypical ivory tower, detached from the tumult of daily life. Knowledge, Normativity, and Power in Academia argues that, in our current moment of historic global unrest, the fruits of the academy need to be examined more closely than ever. This collection pinpoints the connections among researchers, activists, and artists, arguing that--despite what we might think--the knowledge produced in universities and the processes that ignite social transformation are inextricably intertwined. Knowledge, Normativity, and Power in Academia provides analysis from both inside and outside the academy to show how this seemingly staid locale can still provide space for critique and resistance.
Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context
A collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, which addresses Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences roles in the development of the European and American theater.
Deutsch Als Fremdsprache
To initiate its new Ph.D. Program in Transcultural German Studies, jointly offered by the University of Arizona and the University of Leipzig, the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona organized an international conference on Transcultural German Studies in Tucson from March 29-31, 2007. Conference participants sought to define the nature of Transcultural German Studies. This new, interdisciplinary field of inquiry investigates the cultural landscapes of the German-speaking world in the light of globalization and inter- and transcultural contact. The contributions that comprise the volume are by scholars who work in a number of related fields, exploring transcultural phen...
The Faces of Janus
The author offers an interdisciplinary examination of the German-speaking exile experience in Great Britain from the beginnings of the Nazi regime to the end of the Second World War. The book examines the contingencies of cultural production for German and Austrian exiles against the historical context of British immigration and internment policies. By investigating the influence and manipulation of trends in popular British culture in the English-language exile fiction by Ernest Borneman, Robert Neumann, Ruth Feiner, Lilo Linke and George Tabori, the author illustrates how a suspect minority voiced their socio-political concerns in the dominant culture, and presents a strong case for the fa...
Grotesque Revisited
This collection of essays aims to recapitulate the state of grotesque poetics in modern and post-modern writing. It concentrates on Central and Eastern Europe, introducing the Western reader to the variety and ingenuity of this region’s literary traditions, ranging from German and Russian to Lithuanian and Romanian literatures. At the same time, it seeks to highlight the importance of the grotesque mode of writing in the region. It includes new insights and interpretations of theories on grotesque and Menippean satire including (but not limited to) the works of Mikhail Bakhtin. The historic scope of the volume ranges from the legacies of Nazi dictatorship and exile to the post-communist ti...
Staging the Holocaust
'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension? These are the questions addressed by the playwrights and the scholars featured in this book. Their essays present and analyse plays performed in Israel, America, France, Italy, Poland and, of course, Germany. The style of presentation ranges from docudramas to avant-garde performances, from realistic impersonation of historical figures to provocative and nightmarish spectacles. The book is illustrated with original production photographs and some rare drawings and documents; it also contains an important descriptive bibliography of more than two hundred Holocaust plays.
Theater gegen das Vergessen
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist George Tabori (* 1914) zu einem der meist gespielten Autoren der Theaterliteratur dieses Jahrhunderts und einem der meist gebetenen Regisseure der deutschsprachigen Bühnen geworden. Von der Theater- und Literaturwissenschaft wurde er zunächst nur sporadisch wahrgenommen. Erst in jüngerer Zeit hat sich diese Situation geändert. Der Band will den aktuellen Diskussionsstand belegen und erweitern. Er bezieht sich auf die Theaterarbeit und die Dramen Taboris, die dem Thema der Shoah gelten. Auch in der vergleichenden Perspektive mit Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett und Peter Weiss wird das theatrale Verfahren Taboris in seiner besonderen Bedeutung für das Theater der Gegenwart dargestellt und diskutiert.
Ritual- und religionskritische Konstruktionen in George Taboris Holocaust-Drama „The Cannibals“ (New York City 1968) und „Die Kannibalen“ (West-Berlin 1969)
George Taboris The Cannibals (1968) und Die Kannibalen (1969) kreist um die existentielle Frage und Entscheidung des ‚Essens‘ oder ‚Nicht-Essens‘ von einem im Kampf um ein Stück Brot umgekommenen Mithäftling, bis sich am Dramen-Ende der Widerstand der meisten Figuren gegen den von der Täterfigur ausgeübten Zwang zum Kannibalismus durchsetzt.~– Ein Widerstand und eine Verweigerung, die darin gipfelt, sich nicht zu etwas zwingen zu lassen und menschlich zu bleiben, angesichts von Auschwitz. In diesem thematischen, von Tabori anvisierten Zusammenhang zwischen dem Essen des ‚echten Fleisches‘ bzw. dem Motiv ‚Kannibalismus‘, dem Essen, um zu überleben, sowie der zentralen Moralitäts- und Widerstandsfrage, zeigen sich vielschichtige ritual- und religionskritisch gerahmte dramatische Konstruktionen, die im Rahmen dieser Studie mit einem interdisziplinären Forschungszugang erschlossen werden.
