Theresia Birkenhauer

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Theresia Birkenhauer (born June 17, 1955 in Eikeloh , North Rhine-Westphalia , † November 6, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German theater scholar and dramaturge .

Life

Theresia Birkenhauer worked a. a. as a dramaturge under the directorship of Frank-Patrick Steckel at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Here she also worked with Jürgen Gosch and Johannes Schütz. Then, in collaboration with the choreographer and director Reinhild Hoffmann and the composer Isabel Mundry, the music theater piece One Breath - The Odyssey was created . The commissioned composition was premiered in September 2005 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

Theresia Birkenhauer's grave, Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin.

She did her doctorate and habilitation at the Free University of Berlin , and has taken on numerous teaching activities, such as at the Free University of Berlin , the Karlsruhe University of Design and the University of Leipzig .

From 2002 to 2005 she was Professor of Modern German Literature with a focus on theater at the University of Hamburg and from 2005 until her death in November 2006, Professor of Theory and History of Theater at the University of the Arts in Berlin .

Her main research areas were: Else Lasker-Schüler , Heiner Müller , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Friedrich Hölderlin , Maurice Maeterlinck , Cechov, Genet, Beckett, theater theory and theater and opera dramaturgy.

Her grave is in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin / Schöneberg, in Department D.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Legend and poetry. The death of the philosopher and Holderlin Empedocles. Publisher: Vorwerk 8, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930916-06-1 , also: Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 1995
  • The setting for language - the theater as a place for literature. Publisher: Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-930916-44-4 , also: Habilitation thesis, Free University of Berlin

Collections of articles

  • Theresia Birkenhauer (author); Barbara Hahn and Barbara Wahlster (eds.): Theater theory. Between scene and language. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940384-16-4

As editor

  • Theresia Birkenhauer and Annette Storr (eds.): Temporalities - to the reality of the arts. Theater, film, photography, painting, literature. Publisher: Vorweg 8, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-930916-07-X

Articles (selection)

  • A so-called reading drama. To Friedrich Hölderlin's tragedy. The death of Empedocles. In: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Wolfgang Greisenegger and Hans-Thies Lehmann: Fields of work in theater studies. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-4035-2 , p. 147
  • Performance, intermediality, minimalism? Questions for the theater theory of Beckens' late plays. In: Hajo Kurzenberger and Annemarie Matzke (eds.): TheoryTheaterPraxis (= research. Volume 17). Publisher: Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-934344-29-1 , p. 240
  • Theater ... theory. “An immaterial interplay of forces”. In: Patrick Primavesi and Olaf A. Schmitt (eds.): AufBrüche. Theater work between text and situation (= research. Volume 20) Publisher: Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-934344-39-9 , p. 292
  • Tragedy: Working on Democracy Exploring a Distance. In: Theater of Time. Issue 11/2004, theater and war reports from the USA, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ingushetia . Publisher: Theater der Zeit, ISSN  0040-5418 , p. 27
  • Image - description. The eye of language. In: Ulrike Haß (Ed.): Heiner Müller picture description. End of the performance (= research. Volume 29) Publisher: Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-934344-60-7 , p. 93
  • Correction of myths as opening up theatrical space: Ariadne on Naxos. In: Martin Vöhler and Bernd Seidensticker (eds.): Corrections of myths - to a paradoxical form of myth reception (= spectrum literary studies. Volume 3). Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018290-4 , p. 263
  • Crazy relations between scene and language. In: Joachim Gerstmeier and Nikolaus Müller-Schöll (Hrsg.): Politics of the idea. Theater and Theory (= research. Volume 36). Publisher: Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-934344-62-3 , p. 178
  • Silent presence. On the scenic composition of "Alcestis" by Euripides. In: Theater of Time. Issue 2/2007, Volksbühne, what now? Publisher: Theater der Zeit, ISSN  0040-5418 , p. 35
  • The time of the text in the theater. In: Stefan Tigges (ed.): Dramatic Transformations. On current writing and performance strategies in German-speaking theater. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-512-3 , p. 247

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theaterkritiken-Berlin - "One Breath - The Odyssey"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.theaterkritiken-berlin.de  
  2. ↑ Stefan Tigges (ed.): Dramatic Transformations. transcript Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89942-512-3 , p. 376
  3. ^ Universität Hamburg - History of Hamburg Theater Research ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Birkenhauer, Theresia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Eikeloh
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2006
Place of death Berlin