Lecture. Hans-Thies Lehmann: “Postdramatic and dramatic Tragedy“
In this lecture, Prof. Lehmann will discuss the relation between dramatic tragedy and the type of avantgarde theatre which he has famously characterized as “post-dramatic”.
Hans-Thies Lehmann is Professor emeritus for Theatre Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He helped to shape the then newly founded Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen together with his colleague Andrzej Wirth and established a new program on theatre, film and music studies at Goethe-University as well as a program on dramaturgy at the Hessische Theaterakademie. He has held numerous visiting positions in Amsterdam, Paris, Kaunas, Cracow, Tokyo, and Charlottesville and is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. His publications include “Theater und Mythos. Die Konstitution des Subjekts im Diskurs der antiken Tragödie” (1991); “Heiner Müller Handbuch” (ed. with Patrick Primavesi, 2003), and “Postdramatisches Theater” (1999), a seminal work translated into 18 languages, available in English as: Postdramatic Theatre (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).
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