Lecture. Hans-Thies Lehmann: “Postdramatic and dramatic Tragedy“

Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 5:30pm
Location: 
WLH 309
William Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street
New Haven, CT

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).

Sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation and Yale German Department.