Reading staging

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A reading staging ( staged reading, scenic reading ) is the reading of a text in front of an audience , framed by elements similar to theater . The stage is thematically equipped.

The reading can also be supported by multimedia with music and images. The texts to be read ( poems and short stories / short prose to novels ) are often presented as so-called role reading by several actors without falling into "acting".

The texts are worked up scenically, with the focus on reading with all its techniques - articulation , voice volume, tempo, use of speech, voice coloring, breathing . A mixture of classic reading and performing games is used. Active (acting) actions with the audience partially mix the boundaries between the speaker and the listener.

Gestures and drama-oriented ways of delivering verbatim speech support the effect. Reading stagings usually take place without costumes and in the vast majority of cases there is also no stage design . A dramatic text is often only presented in excerpts.

Readings are more than just readings, but not a variant of the theater. Reading productions are offered on cabaret stages , in libraries or often in secondary schools as part of creative text lessons.

Legal position

A reading is like a theater performance , a use of a work is, and therefore usually requires an approval of the copyright holder (for example, author, publisher) to grant the speaker law ( § 19 German Copyright Act). According to German copyright law, copyright expires “seventy years after the death of the author” ( § 64 UrhG). An unauthorized public reading of a protected text constitutes a copyright infringement. An infringement of copyright can be civil law ( §§ 97 ff. UrhG), for example with a warning ( § 97a UrhG), and criminal law ( §§ 106 ff. UrhG) with a fine or be prosecuted with imprisonment. Even the attempt is punishable.

literature

  • Hartmut Eggert , Michael Rutschky (Ed.): Literary role play in school . Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1978, ISBN 3-494-00922-8 .
  • Ingo Scheller: Scenic interpretation . Georg Büchner: Woyzeck. 2nd Edition. Center for Pedagogical Professional Practice (University), Oldenburg 1989, ISBN 3-8142-0226-0 .
  • Albrecht Schau: Scenic Interpretation . A literary didactic manual. 1st edition. Klett, Stuttgart / Düsseldorf / Berlin / Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-12-311290-X .
  • Ingo Scheller: Scenic game . Handbook for educational practice. Cornelsen Scriptor, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-589-21088-5 , pp. 239 .
  • Rainer O. Brinkmann, Markus Kosuch, Wolfgang Martin Stroh: Catalog of methods for the scenic interpretation of music theater . Justifications and teaching materials. Lugert, Oldershausen 2001, ISBN 3-89760-156-7 ( uni-oldenburg.de [PDF; 200 kB ; accessed on May 28, 2009]).