Gerda Baumbach

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Gerda Baumbach (* 1950 in Thal ) is a German theater scholar .

Career

After studying theater studies at the “Hans Otto” theater school in Leipzig, Gerda Baumbach received her doctorate in 1978 with a work on the theatrical qualities of texts by Heiner Müller . The dissertation entitled Dramatic Poetry for Theater. Heiner Müller's BAU as a theater text remained unpublished. Only later were the underlying interviews with Heiner Müller published together with Gottfried Fischborn . In addition to teaching at the theater school, she worked in theater practice. Since 1986 she has been working for Rudolf Münz at the Chair of Older Theater History. In 1993 he completed his habilitation with a paper on parody proceedings, actors and theater at the University of Vienna at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies . She was also regularly employed as a lecturer there until 2003.

Gerda Baumbach has been a professor of theater studies at Leipzig University since 1994 . She is the author and editor of various books and the author of various articles on theater history, theater theory and theater anthropology . The series Leipzig Contributions to Theater History Research has been published by her since 2009. In addition, she regularly gives lectures and guest lectures at home and abroad. In addition, there is a research cooperation with Italian theater historians and theater anthropologists from the universities of Milan , Rome and Turin , where she heads the German-Italian project "Historical anthropology of actors and theaters".

Research and Teaching

Gerda Baumbach's research results at the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Leipzig can be viewed on the website theaterstudien.de . Two central principles are named for the publications, events and projects carried out:

  • The relationships between the present and the past:
"The process of historicizing, which takes the historicity of the present and the presence of history into account, accepts the relativity of apparently eternally valid patterns, values, institutions and includes relativizing one's own position."
  • The relationship between practice and theory:
“Understanding theater as a cultural practice requires a critical approach to theory. From the different perspectives of theory and practice it becomes possible to search for laws that underlie ritual, playful, social, artificial practices that are called »theater«. "

The book series Leipzig Contributions to Theater History Research focuses primarily on European theater traditions from the 11th to the 18th centuries. The focus is on current and future theater.

Her book Actors was published in 2012 . Historical anthropology of the actor. Volume 1: Acting styles in the Leipzig University Press, Volume 2: Histories is currently in preparation. The focus of the study is the relationship between the actor and the audience, using the method of general historical anthropology, as defined by the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck. This relates to the human being with its cultural design of existential areas in their respective historical process of change. Within this process, traditional traditions are mixed with historical events.

In the first of the two volumes by Actor. Historical anthropology of the actor , Baumbach describes the historical development of three structurally differing acting styles in the period from the early modern period to the end of the 19th century. These each represent a certain conception of people :

"Generally characteristic of the comedy style are body movements (gesticulations), for the rhetorical style affect presentation and body gestures, for the veristic style the expression of feelings and their embodiment."

Fonts

Books

  • Tightrope walkers and cheaters? Parody and no end. A contribution to the history and theory of theater. Tübingen, Basel: Francke Verlag 1995 (plus Habil.-Schr., University of Vienna 1993).
  • (Ed.): Theater Art & Healing Art. Studies in theater and anthropology. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 2002.
  • (Ed.): On the way to Pomperlörel. Criticism of "the" theater. Essays. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2010 [= Leipzig contributions to theater history research, Vol. 2].
  • Actor. Historical anthropology of the actor. Volume 1 acting styles. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-611-3 .
  • (Mithrsg.): Snapshot of theater studies. Leipzig lectures. Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2014 [= research, 117].

Articles (selection)

Contributions u. a. zu: Theater history, theater theory and theater anthropology, Commedia all'improvviso and Renaissance theater, theater avant-garde (a focus on VE Meyerhold), mask, acting, theater characters, specialist history of theater studies.

  • Remembering, telling, body knowledge. Historical anthropology of the actor. In: Baumbach, Gerda; Darian, Veronika; Heeg, Günther; Primavesi, Patrick; Rekatzky, Ingo (ed.): Snapshot Theater Studies. Leipzig lectures. Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2014 [= Recherchen, 117], pp. 107–120.
  • Attraversare i confini. Studi di storia dei teatri - Problemi di storia del sapere e di metodologia dalla prospettiva tedesco-lipsiana. In: Università di Torino. Dipartimento di discipline artistiche, musicali e dello spettacolo (ed.): Il castello di Elsinore. Rivista. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier [printing in preparation].
  • Meyerhold's "Biomechanics". (Re) construction of the art of acting. In: Baumbach, Gerda (ed.): On the way to Pomperlörel - criticism of "the theater." Essays. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2010 [= Leipzig Contributions to Research on Theater History, Vol. 2], pp. 297–354.
  • "Greetings, mask!" On the mask problem in modern times. In: Birbaumer, Ulf; Hüttler, Michael; Di Palma, Guido (ed.): Corps du Théâtre. Organicité, contemporanéité, interculturalité. Il Corpo del Teatro. Organicità, contemporaneità, interculturalità. Vienna: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag 2010, pp. 105–137.
  • Leipzig contributions and theater history research. In: Kirschstein, Corinna: Theater Science Historiography. Studies on the beginnings of theater studies research in Leipzig. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2009 [= Leipzig contributions to research on the history of theater, vol. 1], pp. IX-XLIV.
  • The theater scholar Meyerhold. Russian theater research in the first decades of the 20th century. In: Hulfeld, Stefan; Peter, Birgit (ed.): Theater / Science in the 20th Century. Contributions to specialist history. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau 2009 [= Mask and Kothurn. International contributions to theater, film and media studies. 55th vol, H. 1-2], pp. 39-71.
  • E le Maschere, ei Comici? Meyerhold's correspondence on the Venetian theater dispute of the Settecento. In: Susanne Winter (ed.): Il Mondo e le sue Favole. Sviluppi europei del Teatro di Goldoni e Gozzi. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura 2006, pp. 25–62.
  • Comici and Ciarlatani: Healing and Playing - Comedy play as a place of integration of affect and tension of opposites. In: Kick, Hermes Andreas; Taupitz, Jochen (ed.): Affects and constructive design in psychotherapy, media and politics. Ethical Challenge for Science and the Arts. Berlin: LIT Verlag 2006 [= affect - emotion - ethics. Publications of the Institute for Medical Ethics, Basics and Methods of Psychotherapy and Health Culture Mannheim, Vol. 3], pp. 189–207.
  • Presentation of two worlds and the principle of reversal. The tradition and Nestroy. In: Yates, W. Edgar; Dancer; Ulrike (ed.): Theater and society in Vienna in the 19th century. Selected essays. Vienna: Quodlibet 2006 [= Publications of the International Nestroy Society, Vol. 8], pp. 71–89.
  • Ghost apparitions on the theater. In: Theater Art Science. Festschrift for Wolfgang Greisenegger. Compiled v. Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau 2004, pp. 53–64.
  • Healing, playing, theater. Ciarlatani and Comici: Gesticulation, Fantasy and Imagination. In: Theater studies. 2002.
  • Theater historiography. Theater der Zeit , Insert June 2002, pp. 13-19.
  • Fool on horseback. Try on the hobby horse. In: Baumbach, Gerda (ed.): Theaterkunst & Heilkunst. Studies in theater and anthropology. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 2002, pp. 255–326.
  • About the disappearance and the persistence of comedy. In: Baumbach, Gerda (ed.): Theaterkunst & Heilkunst. Studies in theater and anthropology. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 2002, pp. 1–38.
  • »More accuracy, joy, shine in the movements!« Mask and its language in VE Meyerhold's theater work. In: Jeschke, Claudia; Bayerdörfer, Hans-Peter (ed.): Movement in view. Contributions to a theater studies movement research. Berlin: Vorwerk 2000, pp. 192–205.
  • The Mask and the Beast or The Primitiveness of Western Drama. Brecht's use of theater masks. In: Mask and Kothurn. International contributions to theater studies. 42nd vol., Vol. 2-4, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau 2000, pp. 209-240.
  • Still theatrical. Historical-critical considerations in view of the Russian theatrical historiography of the early 20th century. In: Münz, Rudolf: Theatricality and Theater. On the historiography of theatrical structures. With an introductory contribution by Gerda Baumbach. Ed. V. Gisbert Amm, Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 1998, pp. 9–59.

line

  • Leipzig Contributions to Research on Theater History , has been published by Leipziger Universitätsverlag since 2009 (7 volumes, further volumes in preparation).

literature

  • Hans Rudolf Velten: Review of: Baumbach, Gerda (ed.): Theater art and healing art. Studies in theater and anthropology. With the collaboration of Martina Hädge. Böhlau: Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002. Journal for German Studies , NF3 (2004), pp. 634–637.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b theaterstudien.de start page. Retrieved January 25, 2015 .
  2. ^ Leipzig contributions to theater history research. Retrieved January 25, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Historical anthropology of the actor on theaterstudien.de. Retrieved January 25, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Historical anthropology. Retrieved January 25, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Baumbach: Actors - Historical Anthropology of Actors. Vol. 1: Acting styles. 2012 p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Baumbach, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Thal (Ruhla)