Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre

Contributors

2 9 1 Contributors Steven E. Aschheim holds the Vigevani Chair of European Studies and is the director of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Centre for German Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of several books, including Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German -Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923, Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises, and Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy Abroad, and is the editor of Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem. Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer, professor emeritus, was chair of German Literature at the University of Aachen from 1974 to 1986 and chair of Theatre Studies at the University of Munich from 1987 to 2005. His main fields of research are theatre history in central Europe and comparative studies on German/Jewish, German/Polish, and European/Japanese theatre. Delphine Bechtel is associate professor of German, Yiddish, and Central European Studies at the University Paris 4, Sorbonne. She is the author of La Renaissance culturelle juive en Europe centrale et orientale 1897–1930: Langue, littérature et construction nationale, co-editor of several issues of the journal Cultures d’Europe Centrale, and co-author of Villes multiculturelles en Europe centrale. Anat Feinberg is professor of Hebrew and Jewish Literature at the Hochschule für jüdische Studien in Heidelberg. She has published widely in the fields of theatre studies, German Jewish cultural history, and Hebrew literature. Among her books are Wiedergutmachung im Programm: Jüdisches Schicksal im deutschen Nachkriegsdrama , Embodied Memory: The Theatre of George Tabori, George Tabori: Portrait, and Nachklänge: Jüdische Musiker in Deutschland nach 1945. Erika Fischer-Lichte, professor of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, is a former president of the International Federation for Theatre Research. She has published widely in the fields of aesthetics, theory of literature, art, and theatre, in particular on semiotics and performativity, theatre history, and contemporary c o n t r i b u to r s 292 theatre. Among her numerous publications are The Transformative Power of Performance : A New Aesthetics; Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre; The Show and the Gaze of Theatre: A European Perspective; The Semiotics of Theatre, and The Dramatic Touch of Difference: Theatre, Own and Foreign. Bernhard Greiner, professor of German Literature at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, was formerly the inaugural Walter Benjamin Professor for German Jewish literature and cultural history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his recent books are Beschneidung des Herzens: Konstellationen deutsch-jüdischer Literatur and Kleists Dramen und Erzählungen: Experimente zum “Fall” der Kunst. He is co-editor of The Play within the Play: The Performance of Meta-Theatre and Self-Reflection ; Opfere deinen Sohn! Das “Isaak-Opfer” in Judentum; Christentum und Islam, and Schillers Natur: Leben, Denken und literarisches Schaffen. Peter Jelavich teaches modern European cultural and intellectual history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890–1914; Berlin Cabaret, and Berlin Alexanderplatz : Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture. Jeanette R. Malkin is senior lecturer and former chair of the Theatre Studies Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also served on the Beirat/Board of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. She is the author of Memory-Theater and Postmodern Drama and Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama: From Handke to Shepard. Peter W. Marx is associate professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Berne (Switzerland). He is the author of Theater und kulturelle Erinnerung: Kultursemiotische Untersuchungen zu George Tabori, Tadeusz Kantor und Rina Yerushalmi; Max Reinhardt: Vom bürgerlichen Theater zur metropolitanen Kultur, and Ein theatralisches Zeitalter: Bürgerliche Selbstinszenierungen um 1900 as well as numerous articles on subjects relating to intercultural theatre, German Jewish relations, modern theatre, and Shakespeare. Freddie Rokem is the Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th and 20th Century Art at Tel Aviv University. He also teaches in the Department of Theatre Studies at Helsinki University, Finland, where he is a permanent visiting professor. The editor of Theatre Research International from 2006 to 2009, he is the author of Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre, Strindberg’s Secret Codes, and Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance. Lisa Silverman is assistant professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She has published articles in Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary...