Course: Current German-language theater

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Course title Current German-language theater
Course code KFL/SSND
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Prošková Romana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Theory and practice of post-dramatic theater and post-dramatic writing for theater; the change of theater and theatrological paradigm in the 1990s. A discussion of Elfriede Jelinek's productions in German-language scenes directed by Nicholas Stemann and Einar Schleeff. Return to the new realism in the German-language theater since the late 1990s. Thomas Ostermeier at the Baracke-Theater and at the Schaubühne in Berlin Influence and staging of British coolness dramatic naturalism and brutality on the scene Return to the story, the individual hero and the problems of the contemporary Western society: director T. Ostermeier Author, playwright and director of the Schaubühne Marius von Mayenburg, author and director Falk Richter Approach and mix of realistic and post-dramatic tendencies in contemporary texts and theater projects Falk Richter and his dance-motion-drama-designing projects (FEAR) Transformations of author's poetics in works by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Dey Loher, Felicie Zeller ad. Groups and creators from the Gessen Institute for Applied Theater Science: Rimini Protokoll, She She Pop, Clemens Bechtel, and the Theater Projects of the Bürgerbühne Maxim Gorki Theater Minority Issues as a Topic and Theater Aesthetics Professional actors as experts: the war in the former Yugoslavia, the refugee crisis, the coexistence of the Arab world and Israel - the work of Israeli director Yael Ronen with authentic testimony and acting Producers of documentary theater, working with multimedia, documentary film and authentic narrative: Milo Rau in Schaubühne

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 52 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 26 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to name the European artistic main directions
briefly characterize the main European artistic directions and their representatives
briefly characterize the position of German literature in the context of the European literature
briefly characterize the position of German drama in the European context
to appoint leading figures of German written drama
to name important works of German written drama
Skills
understand a shorter example of a literary text written in German literature of any literary genres
understand a shorter example of a drama in German spoken language
to capture the main idea of the literary (dramatic) text read in German
present in German his own opinion on the literary work, theater performances
to understand the interpretation from the field of literary science and literary history in German
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
to characterize the developmental specifics of the literary streams of the German drama
to describe the specific features of the postdramatical theater and postdramatical writing for the theater
to illustrate the continuity of current tendencies to the tradition of dramatic art in German-speaking countries
to characterize the specifics in the present drtic creation in the individual German-speaking countries
to describe the position of contemporary German-language drama in the European context
Skills
to discuss contemporary German dramatic texts
to analyze the language of German written contemporary dramatic texts, to identify possible translation problems
to discuss the theater insecurities of the current German drama
to analyze the way of reflection of political and social themes in current German dramatic works
to identify and comment the interconnection of the arts in contemporary German-speaking theater productions
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Seminar
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Textual studies
Multimedia supported teaching
Skills
Seminar
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Field trip
Multimedia supported teaching
Seminar classes
Discussion
Competences
Lecture
Seminar
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Discussion
Field trip
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Continuous assessment
Self-evaluation
Skills
Oral exam
Group presentation at a seminar
Skills demonstration during practicum
Continuous assessment
Self-evaluation
Competences
Oral exam
Continuous assessment
Self-evaluation
Recommended literature
  • Augustová, Zuzana ? Jiřík, Jan ? Jobertová, Daniela. Horizonty evropského dramatu. Současný divadelní text mezi dramatickými a postdramatickými tendencemi. Praha: NAMU, 2016.
  • Augustová, Zuzana. Jazykové plochy a zkraty Felicie Zeller, doslov, in: Zeller, Felicia. Pět her,. Praha, 2015.
  • Craig, Edward Gordon. O divadelním umění. Vyd. 1. Praha : Divadelní ústav, 2006. ISBN 80-7008-204-1.
  • Černík, Roman. Ašský Gilgameš v Sankt Pöltenu aneb Rakouský pohled na školní divadlo. 1999.
  • Jan Deck ? Angelika Sieburg (eds.). Politisch Theater machen: Neue Artikulationsformen des Politischen in den darstellenden Künsten. Frankfurt am Main, 2011. ISBN 978-3-8376-1409-1.
  • Miriam Dreysse ? Florian Malzacher (eds.). Rimini Protokoll: Experten des Alltags: Das Theater von Rimini Protokolll. Berlin, 2007. ISBN 978-3-89581-181-4.
  • Mišterová, Ivona. Angloamerické drama na plzeňských scénách. Vyd. 1. Plzeň : Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2013. ISBN 978-80-261-0193-2.


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