Gert Reifarth

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Gert Reifarth (* 1968 in the GDR) is a German literary and cultural scientist and theater maker .

Life

Reifarth studied German and English in Jena from 1987–1993, worked as a German and language professor in Galway / Ireland from 1994–1999 , in Berlin from 2000–2003 and lived in Melbourne / Australia from 2003 to 2008 . He received his doctorate in 2002. Since 2008 he has been a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin for general and comparative literature .

In October 2006, he wrote and directed Who's afraid of Harry Heine? A radio-play-live-on-stage about the Last Romantic , at UA Open Stage Theater, Melbourne. In 2007 he founded the opera company IOpera in Melbourne with Peter Tregear. On February 29th and March 1st, 2008 he staged the opera Erwin und Elmire (libretto: JW Goethe, music: Anna Amalia ) in the Central Hall, Melbourne. In February 2008 he organized the conference Aesopic Voices: Reframing Truth in 20th-Century Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fables with Philip Morrissey .

Publications

  • 2007 The inside from the outside. On German-language poetry of the 21st century . ISBN 978-3-8260-3778-8 (Germanists from AU and NZ on modern German poems from Günter Kunert to Rammstein singer Till Lindemann ; illustrations by four Australian artists)
  • 2006 CD Who's afraid of Harry Heine? (Radio play about Heinrich Heine , with some of his poems in English translation)
  • 2003 book The Power of Fairy Tales. To portray repression and submission in the GDR in fairytale prose . ISBN 978-3-8260-2407-8
  • further work u. a. about the Slovenian band Laibach, about current German films about Hitler and the Holocaust, about the resurrection of the GDR in East German theaters.

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personal data
SURNAME Reifarth, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and cultural scholar and theater maker
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH GDR