The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier

Peter M. Boenisch is Professor of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University, Denmark and Professor of European Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. His specialist areas are theatre direction and dramaturgy, with a particular focus on the German- and Dutch-speaking countries, as well as the institutional aesthetics and politics of the European theatre system. His books include Directing Scenes and Senses: The thinking of Regie (2015), The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier, co-authored with the German theatre director (2016), and the volume Littlewood – Strehler – Planchon in the Methuen Drama series The Great European Stage Directors (co-edited with Clare Finburgh, Methuen Drama 2018). He also edited the 30th anniversary edition of David Bradby and David Williams’s seminal study Directors’ Theatre (2019). With Rachel Fensham, he is series co-editor of the series New World Choreographies.

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Preface - 20 years of the Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Ambitions, achievements, transformations by Peter M Boenisch

I. The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Reinventing an institution
1) The first season: The Mission (1999) by Thomas Ostermeier, Jens Hillje, Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig
2) Between philosophical and sociological theatre: The political Regietheater of Peter Stein and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne Berlin by Erika Fischer-Lichte
3) The Schaubühne’s Civic Mission in the Age of Globalization: An Imaginary Island that Probes Society by Ramona Mosse
4) ‘Audiences know their cause will be treated’: Making political theatre at the Schaubühne – Thomas Ostermeier in conversation with Clare Finburgh Delijani

II. Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne: Reinventing ‘Directors’ Theatre’
5) Socialist Realism, Capitalist Realism, Ostermeier Realism by Marvin Carlson
6) Thomas Ostermeier’s Shakespeare productions: The mise en action of canonical plays by Jitka Goriaux Pelechová
7) Hamlet out of joint: Variations on a theme in Thomas Ostermeier’s production, 2008-2020 by Elisa Leroy
8) Sensing the North: Thomas Ostermeier and the Schaubühne in Brazil by Igor de Almeida Silva
9) Confronting the present: Thomas Ostermeier’s post-conceptual Regietheater by Peter M. Boenisch

III. The Schaubühne’s experiments across forms and borders: Towards a new realism
10) Theatre towards the liberation of thinking: Experimenting with realism(s) at the Schaubühne, 2000-2010 by Jens Hillje
11) Re-scripting Realism: Katie Mitchell and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne by Benjamin Fowler
12) Encountering the rage from the South: Latin American theatre at the Schaubühne’s F.I.N.D. festival by Marina Ceppi
13) Performing Bodies as a scenic playground of social realities: Choreographic Theatre at the Berlin Schaubühne by Sabine Huschka
14) REST/less EXHAUSTION, SEMI-CALM: Some notes on Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk’s Trust by Hans-Thies Lehmann

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