Bibliodrama

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Bibliodrama is a creative and representational approach to biblical texts and at the same time to one's own personality. The participants take on roles from the biblical text and act them out in an improvising game in a group. Bibliodrama processes are usually led by trained professionals.

purpose

The identification with biblical events, the people, images and symbols is about the basic human experiences addressed therein

  • to fathom acting and to let people become aware of similar experiences or to rediscover them;
  • to compare with life experiences in today's society;
  • to confront your own perceptions and experiences and thereby promote your own life and belief process.

The task of the leader is to create the balance between the three poles of the Bible text - group - individual. With clear instructions for the respective setting, it opens up "scope" that the participants can fill with their personality.

Emergence

The dramatization of biblical texts has a long tradition (including medieval mystery plays ). The most famous form of it was and still is passion plays like in Oberammergau. Since the 1960s, playing forms and methods of (church) group work have been developed from various sides, especially in Germany, in which it was no longer about the performance and the cathartic effect for the audience, but where the personal and group experience of the The focus is on the end of the game.

Bibliodrama has many sources: creative Bible study, theater education , role play , topic-centered theater (TZT), topic-centered interaction (TZI), gestalt therapy , psychodrama , playback theater , various forms of bodywork and much more. Accordingly, there are also different configurations thereof.

commitment

Bibliodrama is mostly used in religious and church adult education. Bibliodramatic elements can also be used in religious instruction or in youth work. It can be effectively implemented in workshops lasting 2 to 3 hours or over several days.

Derived from psychodrama, in which situations from the biography are re-enacted with therapeutic intent , bibliodrama is also used in pastoral or therapeutic contexts. It is assumed that biblical texts take up archetypal crisis situations . In the bibliodramatic game, these crises are relived, reinterpreted and eventually overcome.

literature

  • Nico Derksen, Claudia Mennen, Sabine Tscherner: Bibliodrama as pastoral care. Playing with dark images of God: a practical book. Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-7966-1695-2
  • Nico Derksen: Bibliodrama, impulses for a new conversation about faith, a practical book. Patmosverlag, Düsseldorf, 2005, ISBN 3-491-70381-6
  • Detlef Hecking, Claudia Mennen, Sabine Tscherner-Babl, Peter Zürn (ed.): Go to the country that I will show you, impulses from the bibliodrama for groups and communities. Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7966-1390-6
  • Andrea and H.-Hermann Brandhorst, Else Natalie Warns, Heinrich Fallner (eds.): Bibliodrama as a process: guidance and advice . EB-Verlag, Berlin 2012, 3rd expanded edition (1st edition 1994), ISBN 978-3-86893-054-2
  • Hans-Werner Gessmann: Psalm 23 - He is my shepherd . Humanistic psychodrama with bliblical text. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 2009, video 73 min., ISBN 978-3-928524-52-0
  • Hans-Werner Gessmann: Do you want to get well? Humanistic psychodrama with biblical texts. Verlag des PIB, Duisburg 1994, video 60 min., ISBN 978-3-928524-20-8
  • Gerhard Marcel Martin: Non-fiction book Bibliodrama. Practice and theory. EB-Verlag, Berlin 2011, 3rd revised edition (1st edition 1995), ISBN 978-3-86893-049-8
  • Klaus-Werner Stangier: Now. Bibliodrama in the field of tension between psychodrama and liturgy . inScenario Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-929296-08-X
  • Heiner Aldebert: Get to know God while playing. Bibliodrama from a religious pedagogical perspective . EB-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-930826-70-4
  • Textraum, magazine of the Society for Bibliodrama, Bielefeld, ISSN  1860-9686
  • Anneliese Hecht: Experiencing the Bible - Methods of holistic Bible study . Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-460-25279-0
  • Wolfram Washof: The Bible on the Stage - Exemplary Figures and Protestant Theology in the Latin and German Bible Drama of the Reformation . Rhema-Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-930454-63-1

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