Matthias J. Pernerstorfer

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Matthias Johannes Pernerstorfer (born 1976  in Eggenburg ) is an Austrian theater scholar , author and director of the Don Juan Archive in Vienna .

life and work

Pernerstorfer studied theater studies at the University of Vienna and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 2003 to 2005 he was a DOC scholarship holder of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , in 2005 he received his dissertation on Menander's Kolax . He then worked at the Da Ponte Institute in Vienna and from 2007 at the Don Juan Archive , whose director he was appointed in 2011.

His main research areas are Greek and Roman comedy , especially Menander , Plautus and Terenz , the theater and cultural history of the 17th to 20th centuries, especially the Viennese folk theater , the popular theater of the Habsburg monarchy , the aristocratic theater and the palace libraries, as well as bibliographic Research and digital libraries.

Pernerstorfer lives in Vienna and regularly organizes symposia in Austria, the Czech Republic and Turkey.

bibliography

As author (selection):

  • Menander's Kolax . A contribution to the reconstruction and interpretation of the comedy. With edition and translation of the fragments and testimonies as well as a dramaturgical commentary. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter 2009 (Studies on Ancient Literature and History 99). ISBN 978-3-11-022128-2
  • Karl von Marinelli's walk in the Prater, in: Nestroyana , Heft 1–2 (2009), 23–32
  • Ferdinand Raimund in Telč. On the palace theater and theater library of Count Podstatzky-Lichtenstein, in: Nestroyana 32, Heft 1–2 (2012), 33–46
  • Editions and Cultural Translations. The 30-year-old ABC contactor in German Speaking Lands, in: Translation. Narration, Media and the Staging of Differences , ed. by Federico Italiano and Michael Rössner. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012, 121–142
  • Prolegomena on a cultural history of the parasite in Greco-Roman comedy, in: LiTheS 7 (2012), pp. 99–116 [1]
  • Ferdinand Raimund in Telč. On the palace theater and theater library of Count Podstatzky-Lichtenstein, in: Nestroyana 32, Heft 1–2 (2012), 33–46
  • Ödön von Horváth: "A slave ball" (1937). Plautus reception and work genesis, in: Maske and Kothurn 59 (2013), pp. 37–49.
  • From the second row to the big parquet. The Counts of Kuefstein in the diplomatic service of the imperial family and their significance for art and culture, in: Unexpected discoveries. Contributions to Austrian literature of the 19th century, ed. by Julia Danielczyk and Ulrike Tanzer . Vienna: Lehner 2014 (Quodlibet. Publications of the International Nestroy Society 12), pp. 210–229.
  • For the documentation, indexing and digitization of theater slips, in: Media of Theater History of the 18th and 19th Century , ed. by Hermann Korte , Hans-Joachim Jakob and Bastian Dewenter . Heidelberg: Winter 2015 (Proszenium. Contributions to historical theater audience research), pp. 127–133.

As editor:

  • "The 30-year-old ABC contactor". Text, music and scenic practice in the Vienna Volkstheater. Vol. I: Edition (Theatralia 1). Vienna: Hollitzer (in preparation), ISBN 978-3-99012-022-4 . Vol. II: (Theatralia 2). Vienna: Hollitzer 2011. ISBN 978-3-99012-025-5 . Vol. III (also in preparation)
  • Theater - slip - collections . Development, digitization, research. Vienna: Hollitzer 2012. ISBN 978-3-99012-080-4
  • Together with Alena Jakubcová : Theaters in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia . From the beginning to the end of the 18th century. A lexicon. Newly edited, German-language edition. In collaboration with Hubert Reitterer, Bärbel Rudin, Adolf Scherl, and Andrea Sommer-Mathis. Series: Austrian Theater History, Volume: 10/6. Vienna: Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2013. ISBN 978-3-7001-6999-4
  • Reinhart Meyer : Writings on the theater and cultural history of the 18th century . Vienna: Hollitzer 2012.
  • Herbert Seifert : Texts on musical drama in the 17th and 18th centuries . Articles and lectures. Vienna: Hollitzer 2014 (Summa Summarum 2). ISBN 978-3-99012-178-8
  • Adolf Primmer : Texts on the structure of the plot in Nea and Palliata . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 (Studies on Ancient Literature and History 118). ISBN 978-3-11-037097-3
  • Co-editor of the Don Juan Studies, Bibliographica, Summa Summarum and Theatralia series, Don Juan Archive Vienna

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personal data
SURNAME Pernerstorfer, Matthias J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pernerstorfer, Matthias Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater scholar, author and director of the Don Juan Archive in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggenburg