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Notes introduction 1. An article in the Hamburger Abendblatt of 12 September 2007 contains typical recent quotes on this matter from both Stein and Peymann. According to Stein, “The German Regietheater is the laughingstock of the entire world,” while Peymann predicts that the conversion of actors into “Regie-marionettes threatens the end of German theatrical culture.” “Peter Stein: ‘Die Welt lacht über unser Regietheater’,” 23. 2. The long-standing focus upon the West German theatre that continued even after the reunification of Germany has only recently begun to be challenged. A major recent book in this reevaluation is Bühnenrepublik by Thomas Irmer and Matthias Schmidt (Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2003). 1. peter stein 1. Ivan Nagel, “Saved,” Theater heute Jahrbuch (1967), 57. 2. Peter Iden, Die Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer 1970–1979 (Munich: Hansen, 1979), 17. 3. Nagel, “Saved,” 75. 4. Ibid. 5. Quoted in John O’Mahony, “Master of the Rebels,” Guardian, 9 August 2003. 6. Michael Patterson, Peter Stein: Germany’s Leading Theatre Director (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 2. 7. See his interview with Bernard Dort, “La Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer,” Travail théâtral 10 (1972), 30. 8. Urs Jenny, “Peter Stein inszeniert Brechts Dichkicht der Städte,” Theater heute 9:4 (April 1968), 33. 9. Volker Canaris, ed., Torquato Tasso: Regiebuch der Bremer Inszenierung (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970), 139. 10. Ibid., 125. 11. Patterson, Stein, 28. 12. Jack Zipes, “Ends and Beginnings: West German Theatre Now,” Performance 4 (1972), 69, quoted in Patterson, Stein, 37. 13. Peter Iden, “Erschwerte Konzentration auf die näheren Ziele,” Theater heute 10:12 (December 1969), 26. 14. Iden, Schaubühne, 37. 15. From a press conference of 14 December 1970, quoted in Peter Sandmeyer, Voraussetzungen und Möglichkeiten kollektiven Berufstheaters in Deutschland (Berlin: Freien Universit ät, 1974), 109. 16. Protocol no. 499 (17 November 1975), quoted in Patterson, Stein, 56–57. 17. Stein, Dort interview, “Schaubühne,” 35. 18. Patterson, Stein, 69. 201 19. Ibid., 60. 20. Ibid., 102. 21. Peter Stein, “Erinnerung ist politische Arbeit,” Die Zeit, 2 January 1976. 22. See, for example, Bert States, Great Reckonings in Little Rooms (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985). 23. Protocol no. 470, 30 April 1975, quoted in Iden, Schaubühne, 252. 24. Gerd Jäger, “Über Handkes Stück, ‘Die Unvernüftigen sterben aus,’” Theater heute 15:7 (July 1974), 34. 25. See Iden, Schaubühne, 116. 26. Michael Patterson reports that technicians at London’s National Theatre were astonished , when the production toured there in March 1977, that Stein insisted on carefully selecting trees from Epping Forest and having them planted on stage in exactly prescribed places, with their earth watered before each performance “so that it had just the right colour tone.” Peter Stein, 116. 27. Jacques Longchamp, “La Walkyrie à l’Opéra,” Le Monde, 21 December 1976, 20; Pierre Petit, “La Walkyrie à l’Opéra: Fermons les yeux,” Figaro, 20 Decenber 1976, 27. 28. Quoted in Peter Lackner, “Stein’s Path to Shakespeare,” Drama Review (hereafter TDR) 21:2 (June 1977), 81. 29. Interview quoted in Patterson, Peter Stein, 156. 30. Michael Merschmeier, “Erste-Klasse-Leiche,” Theater heute 27:12 (December 1986), 1. 31. Volker Canaris, “Die ‘Orestie’ des Aischylos an der Berliner Schaubühne,” Theater heute 22:1 (January 1981), 40–49. 32. Henning Rischbieter, “Museum der Sentimentalität,” Theater heute 25:3 (March 1984), 12–16. 33. Peter Iden, “Tschechows Drei Schwestern,” Frankfurter Rundschau, 2 April 1984. 34. Quoted in Peter von Becker, “Der Einschnitt,” Theater heute 25:4 (April 1984), 1. 35. O’Mahony, “Master of the Rebels.” 36. Merschmeier, “Erste-Klasse-Leiche,” 1. 37. Quoted in Wolfram Brück, “Es ging Ihnen der Ruf eines Anti-Klassikers voraus . . . ,” Theater heute 10:29 (October 1988), 2. 38. Jürgen Flimm, “Das Traumpaar,” Theater heute 30:7 (July 1989), 7. 39. Michael Merschmeier, “Zu schön, um wahr zu sein,” Theater heute 30:7 (July 1989), 4–5. 40. Quoted in Gert Gliewe, “Duett der Titanen,” Theater heute 32:1 (January 1991), 24. 41. Quoted in Franz Wille, “Im Salzkammergut, da kamma Gut Lustig sein,” Theater heute 37:9 (September 1996), 6. 42. Peter von Becker, “Den Kortnerpreisträger 1996,” Theater heute 38:1 (January 1997), 16. 43. Peter Stein, “Die Sprache ist unser Leben,” Theater heute 37:12 (December 1996), 6. 44. Peter Simonischek, “Demokratie als Liebe des Despoten,” Theater heute 38:10 (October 1997), 13. ■ N o t e s t o P a g e s 1 1 – 2...

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