Walter Puchner

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Walter Puchner ( Greek Βάλτερ Πούχνερ , * 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater scholar and full professor of theater studies at the University of Athens .

Life

After studying theater studies at the University of Vienna , Puchner received his doctorate in 1972 from the folklorist and cultural scientist Leopold Schmidt with a dissertation on Karagiozi's modern Greek shadow theater . In 1977 he received his habilitation in Vienna with a paper on the relationship between Greek customs and popular theater. From 1978 to 1989 Puchner taught as a professor at the newly founded Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Crete . Since 1989 he has been professor of theater theory and theater history at the Institute for Theater Studies (Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών) of the Philosophical Faculty (Φιλοσοφική Σχολή) of the University of Athens, which he founded himself. In addition, he taught theater history for thirty years at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna and held numerous visiting professorships at European and US universities.

Honors

Puchner has been a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1994 and has been the recipient of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art since 2001 . He is also a member of the Austrian Society for Literature .

Research priorities

Puchner's research focuses on the theater history of the Balkan Peninsula and the comparative folklore and ethnography of the Mediterranean region , in particular of Byzantine , modern and modern Greece , as well as popular drama . He devoted his early studies to the shadow theater, named after his main character Karagiozis , from Turkish tradition, and the puppet theater from Italy , also named after the comic main character Fasulis (Φασουλής) . In addition to the theater and cultural studies analysis of different forms of drama ( tragedy , comedy , historical drama, religious baroque drama , Jesuit drama , school drama), dramaturgy and theater, Puchner deals with the reception of antiquity with a view to adopting pre-Christian elements in the Christian tradition ( accommodation ) as in terms of theatrical terminology. He has dedicated other works to folklore topics, fairy tales and the Greek folk song . A current focus is on drama and theater theory .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The modern Greek shadow theater Karagiozis. Institute for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Munich, Munich 1975 ( Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia , volume 21; = Dissertation Vienna 1972).
    • Reprint: Hollitzer, Vienna 2014 (Ottomania 4), ISBN 978-3-99012-152-8 (contains an afterword to the new edition with a detailed presentation of the current state of research and a selection bibliography 1972–2012).
  • Traditional phenomena in the course of the year in Greece and their relationship to popular theater. Cross-sectional theater studies and folklore studies on the southern Balkans and Mediterranean folk culture . Austrian Museum of Folklore, Vienna 1977 ( publications of the Austrian Museum of Folklore , Vol. 18; = Habilitation Vienna 1977).
  • Fasulis. Greek puppet theater of Italian origin from the second half of the 19th century . German Institute for Puppetry, Bochum; Dolls and masks W. Nold, Frankfurt / M. 1978 ( Puppet Science Sources and Research , No. 2), ISBN 3-88317-004-6 .
  • Studies on the cultural context of the liturgical scene. Lazarus and Judas as religious folk figures in image and custom, song and legend of Southeast Europe . 2 volumes. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7001-1813-9 ( memoranda, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class , vol. 216)
  • Studies on Greek fairy tales . Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900359-52-0 .
  • Historical drama and socially critical comedy in the countries of Southeast Europe in the 19th century. From the theater of nationalism to the national theater . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-631-47316-8 .
  • Studies in Greek folk song . Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-900359-70-9 (Raabser Märchen-Reihe, Vol. 10). - Review by: Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis : The paradigm shift in modern Greek folk song research . In: Zeitschrift für Volksliedforschung 4, 1999, pp. 138–145; Further review (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • Accommodation issues. Individual examples on the pagan background of elements of the early church and medieval sacred tradition and popular piety . tuduv, Munich 1997 ( cultural history research , vol. 23), ISBN 3-88073-556-5
  • Greek school drama and religious baroque theater in the Aegean region during the Turkish occupation (1580–1750) . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2798-7
  • Contributions to theater studies in Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean region . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar, Vol. 1: 2006, ISBN 3-205-77505-8 ; Vol. 2: 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77612-3
  • Studies in folklore of Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean region . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78369-5
  • Greek Theater between Antiquity and Independence. A History of Reinvention from the Third Century BC to 1830. Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-05947-4
  • Selected studies in theater studies in Greece and Southeast Europe. Hollitzer, Vienna 2018 (= Ottomania 7, edited by Michael Hüttler), ISBN 978-3-99012-220-4 .

Editions and anthology

  • (with Manusos I. Manusakas ): The forgotten bride. Fragments of an unknown Cretan comedy of the 17th century in the Greek fairy tale variants of the AaTh 313c type . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1984 ( reports from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class , Vol. 436), ISBN 3-7001-0650-5 .
  • (Ed., With Nikolaos M. Panagiotakis ): Η Τραγέδια του Αγίου Δημητρίου . Panepistimiakes Ekdosis Kritis, Iraklion 2000, ISBN 960-524-083-1
  • Ανθολογία Νεοελληνικής Δραματουργίας . Τόμος Α ': Από την Κρητική Αναγέννηση ως την Επανάσταση του 1821 . Τόμος Β ': Από την Επανάσταση ως την Μικρασιατική Καταστροφή . Μορφωτικό ΄Ιδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, Athens 2006. - Review by Kyriaki Chrysomalli-Henrich , Günther Steffen Henrich . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 100, 2008, pp. 889-894.

items

  • Principles of leadership in Greek drama from 1590 to 1750 . In: Anzeiger der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, 1981, pp. 108–128.
  • Το Βυζαντινό θέατρο . In: Ευρωπαϊκή Θεατρολογία . Athens 1984, 13-92.397-416.77-94.
  • European Oedipus tradition and Greek fairy tale . In: Wolfdietrich Siegmund (ed.): Ancient myth in our fairy tales ( EMG series , vol. 6), Röth, Kassel 1984, ISBN 3-87680-335-7
  • To the “theater” in Byzantium. An interim balance . In: Günter Prinzing , Hans-Georg Beck , Dieter Simon (eds.): Festival and everyday life in Byzantium . CH Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34326-0 , pp. 11-16, Google Books
  • Theatrical studies and other comments on the "Christ patiens". In: Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 129, 1992, pp. 93–143.
  • Θεατρολογικές παρατηρήσεις σε βυζαντινούς ιστοριογράφους. Η περίπτωση του Μιχαήλ Ψελλού. In: Επιστημονική Επετηρίδα της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών 31, 1996–1997, pp. 283–329.
  • Acting in the Byzantine theater. Evidence and Problems . In: Patricia E. Easterling , Edith Hall (Eds.): Greek and Roman actors. Aspects of an ancient profession . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-65140-9 , pp. 304-324, Google Books
  • Forms and functions of the historical tragedy and the patriotic drama in South Eastern Europe in the era of national awakening . In: Neohelicon 31, 2004, pp. 135-139
  • On the history of ancient theater terminology in post-ancient Greek . In: Wiener Studien 119, 2006, pp. 77–113
  • Early Modern Greek Drama: From Page to Stage . In: Journal of Modern Greek Studies 25, 2007, pp. 243-266
  • European Drama and Theater in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul. In: Michael Hüttler , Hans Ernst Weidinger (Ed.): Ottoman Empire and European Theater. Vol. I: The Age of Mozart and Selim III (1756-1808). Hollitzer, Vienna 2013 (Ottomania, Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-99012-065-1 , pp. 223-234
  • Karagöz and the History of Ottoman Shadow Theater in the Balkans from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: Diffusion, Functions and Assimilations. In: Michael Hüttler , Hans Ernst Weidinger (Ed.): Ottoman Empire and European Theater. Vol. II: The Time of Joseph Haydn. From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730–1839). Hollitzer, Vienna 2014 (Ottomania, Vol. 3), ISBN 978-3-99012-068-2 , pp. 157-194

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personal data
SURNAME Puchner, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna