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Tables of Contents for Shakespeare on the German Stage
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
xii
5
Preface
xvii
I OLD TRADITIONS AND NEW BEGINNINGS
1
43
`Our' Shakespeare, or: the bard in the rucksack
1
4
A More refined appropriation
5
2
Traditional production styles: Shakespeare on the stage of the Stadttheater
7
6
New beginnings
13
13
Appia and Craig
26
4
Max Reinhardt
30
14
2 SHAKESPEARE THEATRE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC (1919-1933)
44
68
The political background
44
2
Theatres in troubled times: hard-pressed and triumphant
46
2
The artistic background
48
4
Expressionist Shakespeare
52
26
`Der Kampfum Shakespeare': debates, translations, adaptations
78
15
Saladin Schmitt, or: cultural politics in the provinces
93
8
Otto Falckenberg and the Munich Kammerspiele
101
11
3 SHAKESPEARE IN THE THIRD REICH (1933-1945)
112
62
Nazism and culture-an uneasy alliance
112
7
Theaterstadt Berlin
119
2
As they liked it: Comedies galore
121
15
Power, politics and morality: Shakespeare at the Staatstheater under Jurgen Fehling
136
12
Clarity and order: Shakespeare at the Deutsches Theater under Hilpert and Engel
148
8
A special case: Gustaf Grundgens-Mephisto as Hamlet
156
5
The `Zurcher Schauspielhaus': Swiss bastion against Hitler
161
13
4 SHAKESPEARE ON THE POST-WAR STAGE -- CONTINUITY OR A FRESH START?
174
43
Introduction: `Die Stunde Null'
174
7
In search of message and style
181
3
Continuity with a difference
184
2
Continuity at the Burgtheater
186
5
Shakespeare performances at theatre festivals
191
4
The fifties epitomized: Gustav Rudolf Sellner and `instrumental theatre'
195
8
Towards a new realism in the classics: Fritz Kortner's struggles and triumphs
203
14
5 TRANSVALUATIONS: SHAKESPEARE AND THE REVOLUTION ON THE WEST GERMAN STAGE (1964-1979)
217
76
The new mental climate
219
2
Shakespeare, the theatre and the crisis of authority
221
5
History Lessons
226
10
Heiner Muller's Shakespeare operations
236
4
Theoretical difficulties
240
3
Better than Shakespeare? Adapting on principle, or: the question of texts
243
6
Questions of content and form: visual radicalizations
249
4
Eros and imagination: the theatre of Peter Zadek
253
1
Excursus: the problem of Shylock -- Zadek, Tabori and others
254
8
Anarchy and energy: Peter Zadek's zestfuliconoclasm
262
6
The end of a period: Heyme and Stein
268
11
The aesthetics of iconoclasm
279
6
Non-experimental Shakespeare (`Shakespearepflege')
285
8
6 RECONSTRUCTION, DECONSTRUCTION, POSTMODERNISM: REDISCOVERING SHAKESPEARE IN THE EIGHTIES
293
57
The new mental climate and the crisis in the theatre
293
5
Beyond catharsis, or: the escape from history
298
8
Posthistoire, or: the thrills of despondency
306
8
Word into image, triumphs of postmodernism
314
9
Dieter Dorn and the Munich Kammerspiele
323
9
Peymann and company: Stuttgart, Bochum, Vienna
332
9
The Bremer Shakespeare Company
341
9
7 THEATRE UNDER SOCIALISM: SHAKESPEARE IN EAST GERMANY
350
85
In another country: Introduction
350
19
Wilhelm Hortmann
Politics, culture and identity
352
7
The theatrical background
359
6
A theatre of opposition?
365
4
Shakespeare on the stages of the German Democratic Republic
369
66
Maik Hamburger
Consolidation and subversion in East German Shakespeare productions. The first twenty-five years
369
27
Beyond politics? A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night after 1970
396
14
Unprincely Hamlets (1973-1983)
410
10
Some notable regional events
420
8
1989 to 1990: Hamlet at world's end. Heiner Muller's production in East Berlin
428
7
8 THE END OF AN EPOCH -- AND SOME NEW FACES
435
41
1989 and after: the mental climate
435
2
Changes in the world of theatre
437
2
Shakespeare recycled
439
10
Novelties and rareties
449
5
Festival Shakespeare: cultural events at Salzburg and Vienna
454
7
Leander Haussmann
461
7
Karin Beier
468
8
Select bibliography
476
9
Index
485