1st Edition
Archaeology of the Political Unconscious Theater and Opera in East Berlin, 1967–1977
By Jennifer Williams
Copyright 2025
202 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy.
This volume investigates three case studies of how leading East Berlin stages excavated fragmentary materials from Weimar dramatist Bertolt Brecht’s oeuvre and repurposed them for... Read more
1. Unsettled Ruins: Political Legitimation and the Aesthetics of Reuse in East Berlin 2. Broken Artifacts: Man Equals Man at the Berliner Ensemble 3. Ruins and Their Shadows: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Komische Oper 4. Disruptive Excavations: The Theater of Heiner Müller and the Legacy of Bertolt Brecht
Biography
Jennifer Williams is a Fulbright Scholar and opera director. She holds a PhD in theater and performance studies from Cornell University and an AB from the University of Chicago.
