Gerald Siegmund

Gerald Siegmund (* 1963 in Eschollbrücken near Darmstadt ) is a German theater scholar .

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Gerald Siegmund studied English , Romance studies and theater studies from 1983 to 1990 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1990 he completed his master's degree on the subject of "Aspects of Negativity in the Dramas of Joe Orton", and in 1994 he received his doctorate with the thesis Theater as Memory in the subjects of English and theater studies.

In 1995 Siegmund became a dance critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , as well as for Ballett International / Tanz Aktuell , Berlin, and Dance Europe Magazine , London. From 1996 to 1998 Siegmund was a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School Pragmatization and De- pragmatization at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He also had teaching positions at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen, Mainz, Bergen and Vienna, as well as at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . Since 1998 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , where he completed his habilitation. In 2005 he took over an assistant professorship at the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Bern . In 2009 Siegmund became professor for choreography and performance at the University of Giessen.

His main research interests are contemporary theater and contemporary dance, theater theories, performance, intermediality and the diverse border areas between theater and the other arts.

Publications

as an author

Theater as a memory. Semiotic and psychoanalytic investigations into the function of drama . Verlag Narr, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-8233-5220-2 (plus dissertation, University of Frankfurt / M. 1994).
Absence. A performative aesthetic of dance; William Forsythe , Jérôme Bel , Xavier Le Roy , Meg Stuart . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-478-6 (plus habilitation thesis , University of Giessen 2005).
On the theatricality of dance . In: Claudia Fleischle-Braun, Ralf Stabel (Hrsg.): Tanzforschung und Tanzausbildung (Yearbook Tanzforschung ; 18). Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-89487-629-6 .

as editor

William Forsythe. Thinking in motion . Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-89487-472-8 (together with Dominik Mentzos).
Theater of the fragment. Performative strategies in theater between antiquity and postmodernism . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-999-2 (together with Anton Bierl, Christoph Meneghetti and Clemens Schuster).
Tanztheater , special issue of the magazine Forum Modernes Theater 1/08, vol. 23, May 2008, ISSN 0930-5874 .

Web links

University of Giessen: biography.

Individual evidence

↑ The dissertation examines Sigmund Freud's memory models and compares them with texts by Heiner Müller, Samuel Beckett, Joe Orton and Steven Berkoff and was published by Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1996
^ A project on mannerism in English theater in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
^ The habilitation thesis is under the title Absence. A performative aesthetic of dance published by transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld.
^ Website of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen

personal data
SURNAME	Siegmund, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eschollbrücken near Darmstadt

[1] The dissertation examines Sigmund Freud's memory models and compares them with texts by Heiner Müller, Samuel Beckett, Joe Orton and Steven Berkoff and was published by Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1996

[2] A project on mannerism in English theater in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

[3] The habilitation thesis is under the title Absence. A performative aesthetic of dance published by transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld.

[4] Website of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen