The Schaubuhne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier : Reinventing Realism (Paperback)

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface - 20 years of the Schaubuhne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Ambitions, achievements, transformations by Peter M Boenisch I. The Schaubuhne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Reinventing an institution 1) The first season: The Mission (1999) by Thomas Ostermeier, Jens Hillje, Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig 2) Between philosophical and sociological theatre: The political Regietheater of Peter Stein and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubuhne Berlin by Erika Fischer-Lichte 3) The Schaubuhne's Civic Mission in the Age of Globalization: An Imaginary Island that Probes Society by Ramona Mosse 4) 'Audiences know their cause will be treated': Making political theatre at the Schaubuhne - Thomas Ostermeier in conversation with Clare Finburgh Delijani II. Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubuhne: Reinventing 'Directors' Theatre' 5) Socialist Realism, Capitalist Realism, Ostermeier Realism by Marvin Carlson 6) Thomas Ostermeier's Shakespeare productions: The mise en action of canonical plays by Jitka Goriaux Pelechova 7) Hamlet out of joint: Variations on a theme in Thomas Ostermeier's production, 2008-2020 by Elisa Leroy 8) Sensing the North: Thomas Ostermeier and the Schaubuhne in Brazil by Igor de Almeida Silva 9) Confronting the present: Thomas Ostermeier's post-conceptual Regietheater by Peter M. Boenisch III. The Schaubuhne's experiments across forms and borders: Towards a new realism 10) Theatre towards the liberation of thinking: Experimenting with realism(s) at the Schaubuhne, 2000-2010 by Jens Hillje 11) Re-scripting Realism: Katie Mitchell and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubuhne by Benjamin Fowler 12) Encountering the rage from the South: Latin American theatre at the Schaubuhne's F.I.N.D. festival by Marina Ceppi 13) Performing Bodies as a scenic playground of social realities: Choreographic Theatre at the Berlin Schaubuhne by Sabine Huschka 14) REST/less EXHAUSTION, SEMI-CALM: Some notes on Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk's Trust by Hans-Thies Lehmann Bibliography Index