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No Man's Land
About This Book
The political events of "annus mirabilis" 1989 marked a rare turning point in world history, but the significance of the year for German literary history is unique. As the 40-year-old German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, so too did the special circumstances which had fostered a literature separate from and in competition with that of the Federal Republic of Germany. A new period of literary history was delimited almost overnight: Germany Democratic Republic literature now was something to be examined as a whole, cultural movement. At the same time, the literary traditions of the German Democratic Republic have continued to influence the contemporary cultural scene, often in ways that are only gradually becoming clear.
The essays, memoirs, and plays collected in this special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review represent an early attempt to assess and reassess one of the German Democratic Republic's richest cultural domains: its theatre. Contributors include David W. Robinson, C
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- The Activist Legacy of Theater in the German Democratic Republic
- From Trial to Condemnation: The Debate over Brecht/Dessauâs 1951 Opera Lucullus
- Periods of Precarious Adjustment: Some Notes on the Theaterâs Situation at the Beginning and after the End of the Socialist German State
- Discursive Contradictions: Questions About Heiner MĂźllerâs âAutobiographyâ
- âOnly Limited Utopias are Realizableâ: On a Motif in the Plays of Peter Hacks
- âNot Peasant Stew! Real Theater for the People!ââWalfriede Schmitt Talks about East German Theater
- Christoph Hein: âEngagementâ in the German Democratic Republic
- Christoph Hein between Ideologies, or, Where Do the Knights of the Round Table Go after Camelot Falls?
- The Knights of the Round Table: A Comedy
- Introduction to Jochen Bergâs Strangers in the Night
- Strangers in the Night
- The Poets and the Power: Heiner MĂźller, Christa Wolf, and the German Literaturstreit
- Viewer Beware: Reception of East German Theatre
- Towards German Unity: Performance within the Threshold
- Iphigenia, King Arthur, and the East German State after Unification
- A Review of Theatre Journal special issue: âTheatre After the F/Wallâ
- Notes on Contributors
- CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW