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'''Erwin''' Friedrich Maximilian '''Piscator''' (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty. | '''Erwin''' Friedrich Maximilian '''Piscator''' (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty. | ||
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| + | * ''The Political Theatre. A History 1914–1929'', trans. Hugh Rorrison, New York: Avon, 1978. | ||
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| + | ;Films | ||
| + | * ''Revolt of the Fishermen'' (''Восстание рыбаков''), Director: Erwin Piscator, Book: Georgi Grebner, Willy Döll, Producer: Mikhail Doller, USSR 1932–1934. | ||
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* Heinrich Goertz, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11159 Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten]'', Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1974, 155 pp. (in German) | * Heinrich Goertz, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11159 Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten]'', Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1974, 155 pp. (in German) | ||
Revision as of 14:10, 27 March 2014
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty.
- Literature
- The Political Theatre. A History 1914–1929, trans. Hugh Rorrison, New York: Avon, 1978.
- Films
- Revolt of the Fishermen (Восстание рыбаков), Director: Erwin Piscator, Book: Georgi Grebner, Willy Döll, Producer: Mikhail Doller, USSR 1932–1934.
- Links
- Heinrich Goertz, Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1974, 155 pp. (in German)
- Timothy Earl Youker, "The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form, Columbia University, 2012. Ph.D. Dissertation.
- Bibliography
- http://thenewschoolhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/willet_piscatordramaticworkshop.pdf
- http://groniek.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/root/2004/II_04/ErwPisselAbe_3/article.pdf
- http://erwin-piscator.de
