Hans thies lehmann biography sample
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Hans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatic theatre
“Hans-Thies Lehmann, the author of an extensive synthetic study Postdramatic Theatre, is a bit more renowned with the audience of this place above all due to translations of some of his articles, published in the Maska magazine in the last years. But these are merely crumbs from the abundant opus of the German theoretician of theatre and dramatics. Hans-Thies Lehmann originates from a theoretical tradition that merges the French post-structuralism and the materialist theories of literature and performing arts. In the eighties, his book Contributions to the Materialist Theory of Literature was published, along with numerous contributions about the authors like Georges Bataille, Georg Büchner and Heiner Müller. In the nineties, Lehmann was giving lectures and publishing articles also on Bertolt Brecht, by whom he was fascinated chiefly because of his concepts of epic theatre, denationalizing effect, plot, gestus, etc. Lehmann’s interest in the work of Heiner Müller, a great admirer of Brecht and at the same time his inexorable critic, continues without interruptions to this day, when his newest book is about to be published about this, as they used to say, “German- German” author. Before that, the publishi
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Hans-Thies Lehmann
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Professor Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann (b. 1944, Ehringshausen, Germany) is a distinguished theatre scholar and critic in his home country Germany as well as abroad. He was the University Professor for Theatre Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Franfurt am Main (1988-2010) and played a leading role in creating the major of Theatre Studies and the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies.
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He has been Visiting Professor to Universities in various countries, such as The Netherlands, France, Lithuania, Poland, the U.K., Canada and the U.S.A. He has lectured in Brazil, Chile, China, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, Malta, among many other places. He has done dramaturgy for Büchner by Falk Richter (author and director) and for Mount Olympus by Jan Fabre. He has been invited as jury to well-known theatre festivals around the world (Frankfurter Hörspielpreis, Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis, Grabbe-Preis, etc.) and has served in various official positions as well (including as advisor for the Theater-Festival Argos in Greece, for Attis Theater Athens, the Felix Meritis Foundation Amsterdam, the theater group Angelus Novus, Schauspiel Bonn, Staatstheater Stuttgart, etc.).
He has been an important commentator on Brecht and Heiner Müller and has published several