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New German Plays for Challenging Times
Re-Staging Trauma, Migration and Digital Dilemmas
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 177 kr
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Despite the vibrancy and formal innovation characterizing contemporary drama in German-speaking countries, English-language access to these works remains markedly limited. Since the early 21st century, few translations have reached anglophone audiences, creating a significant gap in cross-cultural theatrical exchange. This anthology addresses that absence by presenting seven plays by prominent living German playwrights whose work has shaped the national theatre landscape but remains largely unknown abroad.The selected texts engage with urgent socio-political and cultural themes, including digitalization, migration and identity, linguistic assimilation, class stratification, historical trauma, and gendered violence. These plays offer nuanced reflections on the evolving dynamics of German society, articulated through dramaturgical experimentation and linguistic innovation. The collection encompasses a range of theatrical forms—from linear narratives to post-dramatic and documentary styles—demonstrating the diversity of contemporary German playwriting.Each play is prefaced by a critical introduction authored by a theatre scholar or practitioner, offering interpretive frameworks and contextual insights that facilitate transnational understanding. The translations, produced by experienced theatre translators and refined through collaborative workshops, are designed for performative viability and cultural resonance.This volume serves as a vital resource for scholars, students, and practitioners of theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, and German studies. It invites readers to engage with the aesthetic and thematic concerns animating German-language theatre today and encourages intercultural dialogue through dramatic literature. By making these works accessible, the anthology contributes to the expansion of global theatre repertoires and supports the cultivation of international artistic networks.
New German Plays for Challenging Times
Re-Staging Trauma, Migration and Digital Dilemmas
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
398 kr
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Despite the vibrancy and formal innovation characterizing contemporary drama in German-speaking countries, English-language access to these works remains markedly limited. Since the early 21st century, few translations have reached anglophone audiences, creating a significant gap in cross-cultural theatrical exchange. This anthology addresses that absence by presenting seven plays by prominent living German playwrights whose work has shaped the national theatre landscape but remains largely unknown abroad.The selected texts engage with urgent socio-political and cultural themes, including digitalization, migration and identity, linguistic assimilation, class stratification, historical trauma, and gendered violence. These plays offer nuanced reflections on the evolving dynamics of German society, articulated through dramaturgical experimentation and linguistic innovation. The collection encompasses a range of theatrical forms—from linear narratives to post-dramatic and documentary styles—demonstrating the diversity of contemporary German playwriting.Each play is prefaced by a critical introduction authored by a theatre scholar or practitioner, offering interpretive frameworks and contextual insights that facilitate transnational understanding. The translations, produced by experienced theatre translators and refined through collaborative workshops, are designed for performative viability and cultural resonance.This volume serves as a vital resource for scholars, students, and practitioners of theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, and German studies. It invites readers to engage with the aesthetic and thematic concerns animating German-language theatre today and encourages intercultural dialogue through dramatic literature. By making these works accessible, the anthology contributes to the expansion of global theatre repertoires and supports the cultivation of international artistic networks.
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A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could—or would—change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kürmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane—He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the color of his living room furniture. Despite his intention to apply the wisdom he has acquired with age, Kürmann finds himself inexorably trapped in the same decisions. Ultimately proving fatal, Kürmann’s life game interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. The play’s central idea—that our lives are nothing but a self-conscious play with imaginary identities—is brilliantly captured in Biography’s dramaturgical form, setting up a theatre rehearsal as the metaphor for the endless possibilities and variables of the game of life. Frisch’s own revised, dramatically heightened version of his play celebrates not only the theatre as a form of self-expression but also the human condition in all its potential and limitations as it showcases both comic and tragic outcomes that define all our lives.