Political theatre in a shrinking world: Rene Pollesch's postdramatic practices on paper and on stage

Contemporary Theatre Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-40

  Barnett, David ^a  

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EID: 34347322989     PISSN: 10486801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10486800500450957     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. See David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990) for a fuller discussion
2. Maaike Bleeker, 'Look who's Looking!: Perspective and the Paradox of Postdramatic Subjectivity', Theatre Research International, 29:1 (2004), 29-41
3. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity, 1990), p. 64
4. Tim Etchells, Certain Fragments: Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment (London: Rout ledge, 1999), p. 97
5. Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland (eds), Commodify your Dissent: Salvos from 'The Baffler' (New York and London: Norton, 1997) for a scries of essays on corporations' attempts to commodify opposition by incorporating it through the consumption of oppositional products, such as films, music and clothing
6. Jean Eaudrillard, Simulacra- and Simulation, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994), p. 6
7. Gerda Poschmann, Der nicht mehr dramatisehe Theatertext. Aktuelle Bühnentexte und ihre dramaturgische Analyse (Tübingen: Niemever, 1997), p. 296"
8. Hans-Thies Lehmann, Postdramatisches Theater (Frankfurt/Main: Verlag der Autoren, 1999), p, 12
9. Frauke Meyer-Gosau, "'Andere dich, Situation!" René Polleschs politischromantisches Projckt der www-slums', in René Pollcsch, www-slums (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2003), pp. 9-26 (p. 10)
10. The primary intertext for this play is the academic article by Brigitte Lorenz, Renate Kustcr and Pauline Boudry, 'Das Insonrcing des Zuhause', in Widersprüche, 20:78 (2000), pp. 13-26. It explores the 'guest house' phenomenon in Germany where hotel space is rented but is made to feel like 'home'
11. René Pollesch, Instmrcing des Zuhame - Menschm in Scheiβ-Hotels, in René Pollesch and Bettina Masuch, Wohn front 2001-2002 (Berlin: Alexander, 2002), pp. 43-80 (pp. 61-62)
12. One critic noted the actors 'reden wirklich so auf dieser Bühne - als seien einem soziologischen Seminar die Sicherungen durchgebrannt' ['actually talk in such a way on stage as if they'd all blown a fuse in a sociology seminar'] Ralph Hammerthaler, 'Im horizontalen Gewerbcgebiet', Süddentsche Zeitung (5 February 2002), p. 14
13. René Pollesch, SEX, in Pollesch and Masuch, Wohnfront, pp. 131-159 (p. 131)
14. Pollesch quoted in Jochen Becker at at., 'Das Material fragt zurück', in Pollesch and Masuch, Wohnfront, p. 222
15. Pollesch, www-slums, p. 67
16. Diedrich Diederichsen, cDenn sie wissen, was sie nicht leben wollen. Das kulturtheoretische Theater des René Pollesch', Theater heute, 3 (2002), pp. 56-63 (pp. 60-61)
17. Lehmann, Pastdrmatisches Theater, p. 113
18. Christine Dössel, 'Wohnfront 2001', Süddeutsche Zeitung (31 October 2001), p. 17
19. Poschmann, Der nicht mehr dramatische Theatertext, p. 177
20. Jens Roselt, 'Geschirrspüler frisst Schauspicler', Frankfurter Rundschau (4 October 2001), p. 20
21. Pollesch and Masuch, Wohnfront, p. 143
22. Lchmann, Postdra matisches Theater, p. 173
23. Milo Rau, 'Irgendjemand lebt mein Leben', Neue Zürcher Zeitung (20 February 2002), p. 34
24. Poilesch, www-slums, p. 178
25. Pollesch in Ricarda Bethka with Bert Neumann and René Pollcsch, 'Anleitung zum Widerstand?', in John von Duffel and Detlef Langer (eds), Theaterszene - Jahrbuch Köln 2002. Wie Theater entsteht (Cologne: Dittrich, 2002), pp. 58-65 (p. 64)