German Theatre

The course is aimed at students of all Humanities: its main objective is a mutual enrichment of knowledge and skills gained in the field of Literary/German Studies with those of Cultural Studies and Performance and Media Studies. History, theory, methods and topics of German drama and theatre are thus to be discussed, partly in seminar form, applied to dramaturgically/scenically/aesthetically significant examples, taken from modern and contemporary German Drama and Theatre. These examples will be considered both in their premises and development contexts as well as with regard to their dramaturgical, scenic and intermedial reception and to their intercultural mediation.

Knowledge and understanding: overview on significant epochs of Modern/Contemporary German Drama and Theatre and of methods and theories of Theatre Studies in Germany, with particular regard to drama and performance analysis. Understanding of the main theoretical and methodological issues regarding the study of German Drama and Theatre and of its intercultural and intermedial adaptations. Applying knowledge and understanding: analysis skills with regard to the structure of modern drama and of performance, ability in discussing these issues in the class and of autonomously applying the developed methods on other examples (reading list); competencies in writing a paper on a case study (so called Hausarbeit), competencies and skills in teamwork (collective production of texts & materials for the mediation, communication, dissemination of German-language theatre in contemporary cultural contexts).