Monika Meister

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Monika Meister (* 1949 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian theater scholar at the Vienna Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies . She researches and teaches the history, theory and aesthetics of theater.

Life

Monika Meister graduated in theater studies , anthropology and philosophy at Vienna University, where she in 1979 with a thesis on the concept of theater Robert Musil : a contribution to aesthetic theory of theater doctorate was. She then received an assistant contract at the Institute for Theater Studies. Her habilitation thesis (Vienna 1991) is entitled Purgatorium - Katharsis - Subversion. On the history of a theory of theater in the 19th and 20th centuries .

Research and Teaching

Monika Meister has been teaching at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna since 1992, she was director of the institute from 2004 to 2010 and is now a retired associate professor (as of 2017). She also teaches theater and literary history at the Max Reinhardt Seminar . In addition, she has been deputy head of the Elfriede Jelinek research platform since 2013 : Texts - Contexts - Reception . This research platform connects scientists from three faculties and seven institutes of the University of Vienna and was founded in June 2013. It is an internationally networked, interdisciplinary research center on Elfriede Jelinek.

Monika Meister belongs to the editorial team of the magazine Maske und Kothurn . International contributions to theater, film and media studies.

Publications (selection)

  • Monika Meister: Think theater. Aesthetic strategies in the scenic arts (collected writings from 20 years), Sonderzahl-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85449-314-3 .
  • Monika Meister: Theater should be a kind of refusal. On the dramaturgy of Elfriede Jelinek. In: Françoise Lartillot, Dieter Hornig (eds.): Jelinek, une re´pe´tition? 2009, pp. 55-71.

Honors

  • Klemens Gruber, Rainer M. Köppl (Ed.): For Monika Meister: Texts from Viennese theater, film and media studies. Böhlau, Vienna [a. a.] 2015 (= Maske and Kothurn 61 (2015), 3/4), ISBN 978-3-205-20139-7 .

Web links

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  1. ^ ÖNB: Master Purgatorium Monika
  2. ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr Monika Meister , Max Reinhardt Seminar
  3. The members of the Elfriede Jelinek research platform
  4. ^ Research platform Elfriede Jelinek Texts - Contexts - Reception Retrieved on May 28, 2017
  5. degruyter.com: Editor / Editor. Accessed May 28, 2017
  6. ^ About the book, Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna