Theo Girshausen

Theo Girshausen (born June 28, 1950 - March 25, 2006 ) was a German theater scholar .

Life

Girshausen studied theater, film and television studies (TFF), German literature and philosophy at the University of Cologne . His teachers there included Erken, Hinck, Janke, Volkmann-Schluck and Bormann. From 1975 to 1977 he worked as a tutor at the Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies at the University of Cologne. In 1980 he was working on "Heiner Müller and the Didactic Theater of the GDR" at the Philosophical Faculty at G. Erken doctorate . He initially worked as a lecturer for the WDR in Cologne, at the same time as a theater critic. From 1980 he had a position as a research assistant at the Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies at the University of Cologne. Between 1984 and 1990 he moved to the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin as a research assistant . He qualified as a professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1990 with the writing Origin Times of the Theater, the Theater of Antiquity. Functions, forms and developments of the theater in antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance . The habilitation lecture was on the subject of loss of standards? Adhered to post-structuralist media theory . In 1994 Girshausen was offered a professorship at the University of Leipzig . He played a major role in the development of the Leipzig Institute for Theater Studies, which is currently located in the “Rothen Kolleg” at Leipzig University.

Girshausen became internationally known with his habilitation thesis, which fundamentally describes the development of ancient theater and classifies it in terms of scientific theory. The dtv theater lexicon he edited became a popular standard work.

He has also published numerous papers on BK Tragelehn and Heiner Müller and was considered a Müller expert. On the occasion of Heiner Müller's 75th birthday in 2004, Theo Girshausen and Günther Heeg initiated the Heiner Müller conference “Theatrography - Heiner Müller's Theater of Writing” .

Fonts

• The Hamlet machine. Heiner Müller's endgame. Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1978.
• Realism and Utopia, Heiner Müller's early pieces. Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-922009-36-0 .
• BK Tragelehn - theater works. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1988.
• dtv theater lexicon . Volume 2: Epochs, ensembles, characters, forms of play, terms, theories. dtv, Munich 1996 ff.
• Original times of the theater. The theater of antiquity. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-930916-14-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Theo Girshausen in the catalog of the German National Library