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Performing New German Realities - Turkish-German Scripts of Postmigration

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'One in four people in Germany today have a so-called migration background, however, the relationship between theatre and migration there has only recently begun to take centre stage. Indeed, fifty years after large-scale Turkish labour migration to the Federal Republic of Germany began, theatre by Turkish-German artists is only now becoming a consistent feature of Germany's influential state-funded theatrical landscape. Drawing on extensive archival and field work, this book asks where, when, why, and how plays engaging with the new realities of "postmigrant" Germany have been performed over the past 30 years. Focusing on plays by renowned artists Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Feridun Zaimoglu/Günter Senkel, it asks which new realities have been scripted in the theatrical sphere in the process - in the imaginations of playwrights, readers, audience members; in the enactment and direction of scripts on stage; and in the performance of new institutional approaches and cultural policies.Highlighting the role this theatre has played in a larger, ongoing re-scripting of the German stage, this study presents a critical perspective on contemporary European theatre and opens innovative developments in the conceptualization of theatre and post/migration from the German context to English language readers.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Turkish-German Scripts of Postmigration.- 2. Scripts of Migration: Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Early Plays (1982-2000).- 3. Zaimoglu/Senkel/Shakespeare: Othello (2003) and the "Turkish-German" Rewrite.- 4. The "Neo-Muslima" Enters the Scene: Black Virgins (2006) and the Postmigrant Theatre.- 5. Performing Institutional Change: New Faces, Shadow Voices (2008).- 6. Celebrating the New "Normal"? Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Perikizi (2010) and the Festival Context.- 7. Conclusion: Scripting New Realities - New Realities to Script.

About the author










Lizzie Stewart is a Lecturer at King's College London, UK. She has previously held positions at University of Edinburgh, St Andrews, and Cambridge, all UK. Her work operates primarily at the intersection of Modern Languages, Migration Studies, and Theatre and Performance, and has focused on the relationship between labour migration and cultural production. 

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"Performing New German Realities is a read for anyone who is interested in a fuller picture of German theater from its margins." (Azadeh Sharifi, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, February 21, 2023)

Product details

Authors Lizzie Stewart
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2022
 
EAN 9783030698508
ISBN 978-3-0-3069850-8
No. of pages 322
Dimensions 148 mm x 18 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations XIX, 322 p. 21 illus., 19 illus. in color.
Series Contemporary Performance InterActions
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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