Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0061783

Zusammenfassung

Theater studies have proposed a very successful hypothesis to explain the development from epic to postdramatic theater. According to this hypothesis, theater in the past 100 years has dissolved the connection between text and performance. The common understanding that theater is all about the staging of a literary text would therefore be restricted to the specific historic case of bourgeois theater. This narrative is provocative for literary studies because these studies count drama as among the three major literary genres and tend to understand it systematically rather than just hist...