CDE Proceedings
Wolfgang Lippke, ed.
Aspects of Theatre and Drama in Britain and New Zealand
Unterricht-Studium-Fortbildung 7.
Siegen: Universität GH, 1992.
97 pp. ISSN 0935-9303
- Roger HALL: Contemporary New Zealand as Seen by Its Playwrights
- Sarah DANIELS: Women, Marginalisation and the Madness of Writing Plays
- David EDGAR: Public Theatre in a Private Age
With a preface by Bernhard Reitz as well as introductory essays and addresses by Wolfgang Lippke, Klaus Sturm, Frank Frankel, Agota M. Kuperman, Albert-Reiner Glaap, Nicole Boireau and Raimund Schäffner
Bernhard Reitz, ed.
New Forms of Comedy
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994.
168 pp. ISBN 3-88476-118-8. EUR 18,-
The volume contains the 12 papers given on the occasion of the first CDE conference held at the University of Siegen in 1993.
- Christopher INNES: „The Cutting Edge of Comedy: Peter Barnes‘ Polemics“
- Peter Paul SCHNIERER: ‚The Conventional Comedies of Bond and Shaffer“
- Christine DYMKOWSKI: „Questioning Comedy in Daniels, Wertenbaker, and Churchill“
- Eckart VOIGTS-VIRCHOW: „Learning by Suffering/Singing: Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective as a Musical Tragi-Comedy of Disease“
- Tobias DÖRING: „Outside In: Place and Space in Matura’s Political Comedy“
- Ann WILSON: „Po-Co Jest: Reflections on Comedy and National Identity in English-Canada“
- Bernhard REITZ: „From Loman to Lyman: Arthur Miller’s Comedy“
- Edith HALLBERG: „Barbara Garson’s Black Comedy Security“
- Christiane BIMBERG: „The Serious Business of Comedy: Return to a Complex Genre in Woody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy„
- Armin GERATHS: „The New Musical and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Musical Comedy“
- William BROWN: „Robert Ashley’s Comic Opera for Television“
- Peter GRIFFITH: „Aspects of Contemporary Theatre-in-Education“
Bernhard Reitz, ed.
Centres and Margins
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995.
195 pp. ISBN 3-88476-146-3. EUR 19,-
The volume contains the 13 papers given on the occasion of the second CDE conference held at the University of Siegen in 1994.
- Klaus-Peter MÜLLER: „Recasting the World on Stage: The Freedom of Creating New Centres and Meanings in Contemporary Theatre“
- Martin BANHAM: „Talking Back to the Centre: Aspects of West African Theatre“
- Christopher INNES: „Outsiders Offside on the Inside: Sex, Politics and National Theatre(s)“
- Peter ZENZINGER: „Looking for a Centre: Contemporary Scottish Drama and Theatre“
- Nicholas ARNOLD: „American Colonisation of the English Avant- Garde“
- Bryony LAVERY: „‚Guerillas in the Mist: Sightings of, and Observations on, Feminists in British Theatre“
- Nicole BOIREAU: „Marginalising the Centre: the Case of Tom Stoppard“
- Martin MIDDEKE: „Fashion and the Media: Hyperreality in the Plays of Stephen Poliakoff“
- Eckart VOIGTS-VIRCHOW: „Pinter Still/Again Pinteresque? Opacity and Illumination in Moonlight„
- Eckhard BREITINGER: „Derek Walcott and the Great Traditions“
- Rose MBOWA: „Cultural Dualism in Uganda Theatre Since Coloniaism“
- Alexander TEODORESCU: „New Ideas on the Teaching of Macbeth“
- Albert-Reiner GLAAP: „Englischsprachige Dramen im Englischunterricht/Plays in English for the Classroom (Bibliography)“
Bernhard Reitz, ed.
Drama and Reality
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1996.
222 pp. ISBN 3-88476-201- X. EUR 20,50
The volume contains the 18 papers given on the occasion of the third CDE conference held at the University of Dresden in 1995.
- Howard BRENTON: „With Gardzienice“
- Christopher INNES: „The End of History-and After: The Politics of Drama Today“
- Tobias DÖRING: „The Real Inspector Freud: Kim Morrissey, Terry Johnson, and the Drama of Hysteria“
- Elizabeth SAKELLARIDOU: „Hyper-/ Sur-/Realism and the Postmodern Stage“
- Jochen ACHILLES: „Dermot Bolger’s Drama and the Reality of Europe“
- Paul GOETSCH: „Questioning Liberal Optimism: Athol Fugard’s Playland„
- Irene NITZL: „Coping with Nigerian Language Problems in Literature: The Transistor Radio by Ken Saro-Wiwa“
- Uma NARAIN: ‚Theater of the Vietnam War: Reality Truer Than Experiential Fact“
- Peter Paul SCHNIERER: „The Theatre of War: English Drama and the Bosnian Conflict“
- Ute BERNS: „Political Drama and the Micropolitics of Language: Institutional Power and Individual Perspectives Creating Dramatic Realities“
- Jale ABDOL LAZAHDEH: „Departures from Realism: Contemporary Feminist Theatre and the Power of Surreal Effects“
- Werner HUBER/Martin MIDDEKE: „Biography in Contemporary Drama“
- Isolde NEUBERT: „The Doorman of the Century is a Transient Phenomenon: The Symbolism of Dancer in Howard Barker’s Hated Nightfall„
- Guy STERN: „Romantic vs. Postmodern Reality: An Examination of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia„
- Bernhard REITZ: „Beyond Newton’s Universe: Science and Art in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia„
- Hans-Ulrich MOHR: „David Mamet’s Oleanna: The Hazards of Social Construction“
- Karl GROSS: „‚Games People Play‘: Illusion and Reality in David Rabe’s Streamers„
- Christiane BIMBERG: „Reality and Its Distortion in the Plays of Sam Shepard“
Peter Paul Schnierer, ed.
Beyond the Mainstream
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1997.
153pp. ISBN 3-88476-266-4. EUR 18,-
The volume contains the 11 papers given on the occasion of the fourth CDE conference held in Blaubeuren (University of Tübingen) in 1996.
- Peter Paul SCHNIERER: „Introduction: The Marginal Theatre“
- Margarete RUBIK: „Fringe or Mainstream? What is Marketable?“
- Jale ABDOLLAHZADEH: „De-constructing and Re-constructing the Gendered Gaze in Lesbian Theatre“
- Guy STERN: „The Jewish Ensemble Theatre of Michigan and its American Premiere of Motti Lerner’s Exile in Jerusalem„
- Nicole BOIREAU: „The ‚undersea kingdom‘ of Gregory Motton“
- Christopher INNES: „Beyond Categories (Redefining ‚mainstream‘)“
- Stuart MARLOW: „Revisiting Top Girls: Mainstreaming the Alternative“
- Reade DORNAN: „Omaha Magic Theatre: Not Corn, But Babes Unchained“
- Wolfgang HOCHBRUCK: „Between ‚Living History‘ and Pageantry: Historical Reenactments in American Culture“
- Christiane SCHLOTTE: „Other Voices: Latino and Asian American Theatre in New York“
- Regina KNEER: „Contemporary Black Australian Drama“
- Eckhard BREITINGER: „African Theatre Today: Perception and Reception at africa 95„
Werner Huber and Martin Middeke, eds.
Anthropological Perspectives
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1998.
212pp. ISBN 3-88476-298-2. EUR 20,-
The volume contains the 13 papers given on the occasion of the fifth CDE conference held at the University of Paderborn in 1997.
- Werner HUBER/ Martin MIDDEKE: „Introduction“
- Richard Allen CAVE: „Engendering Confusion“
- David EDGAR: „From Babel to Pentecost: Language and Culture in the Liminal Zone“
- Margarete RUBIK: „The Bacchae in Modern British Drama“
- Stephanie KRAMER: „Imaging/Imagining Women’s Lives: Biography in Contemporary Women’s Drama“
- Stuart MARLOW: „Hovering Between the Post-Colonial and the Pastoral: Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa„
- Anja OED: „Staging Ritual in Post-Colonial Drama: Wole Soyinka’s Death of the King’s Horseman and Tess Akaeke Onwueme’s The Broken Calabash„
- Albert-Reiner GLAAP: „Anguished Human Relations and the Search for Love: Plays by Canadian Writers Brad Fraser, Judith Thompson and Dianne Warren“
- Markus WESSENDORF: „Richard Foreman’s Theatrical Deconstruction of the Neo-Ritualistic Theatre of the Sixties“
- Thomas LEUCHTENMUELLER: „The Role of Rituals in August Wilson’s Drama“
- Johan CALLENS: „FinISHed Story: Elizabeth LeCompte’s Intercultural Take on Time and Work“
- Klaus STIERSTORFER: „Life into Theatre – Theatre into Living: Dramatherapy and its Interface with Drama and Theatre Studies“
- Fritz-Wilhelm NEUMANN: „Cyberspace: The Impact of Information Technology on the Stage“
- Nicholas ARNOLD: „‚Come, and Take Away the Green Pain‘ – The Shamanic and Ecstatic Features of Trance-Dance in Rave Culture“
Bernhard Reitz, ed.
Race and Religion
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1999.
ISBN 3-88476-353-9, 212 pp., EUR 20,50
The volume contains the 16 papers given at the sixth CDE conference in Leutersdorf (University of Mainz).
- David NATHAN: Race and Religion in the English Theatre
- Sigrid RIEUWERTS: Sacraments and Sacrifices: On David Hare’s Racing Demon
- Isolde NEUBERT-KÖPSEL: Jokers in the Pack: Satire and Metaphor in David Hare’s Racing Demon (1990)
- Beatrix HESSE: Race, Religion and the Group Process: The Plays of David Edgar
- Guy STERN: Furtwängler – the Testing of Art: Ronald Harwood’s Drama Taking Sides
- Heiner ZIMMERMAN: European Xenophobia and Ireland: A Postcolonial View: Donal O’Kelly: Asylum! Asylum!
- Merle TÖNNIES: The Codes of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ and the Manipulation of Audience Sympathy: Conflicts between the West and the Islamic World in Contemporary British and Irish Drama
- Elizabeth SAKELLARIDOU: Religion as Strategy
- Christopher INNES: Staging Black History: Re-Imaging Cultural Icons
- Ralph POOLE: „Learning to be Chinese:“ Postcolonial Mourning in Asian Drama in English
- Geoffrey V. DAVIS: Addressing the Silences of the Past: The Legacy of Race in Contemporary South African Theatre
- Richard CORBALLIS: Biculturalism and Multiculturalism in Contemporary New Zealand Drama
- Marion SPIES: Religion and Society in Contemporary Australian Drama
- Nilufer E. BHARUCHA: Retreating Into Tribal Mansions: Race and Religion in Plays Written by Parsi Zoroastrians in India
- Uma NARAIN: Crisis of Self in Dattani’s „Dance Like a Man“
- Martina GHOSH-SCHELLHORN: Intertextualizing Mythology: The Ramayana and two Contemporary Plays in English
Eckart Voigts-Virchow, ed.
Mediated Drama – Dramatized Media
Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2000.
ISBN 3-88476-441-7, 229 pp., EUR 20,50
The volume contains the 16 papers given at the eighth CDE conference held in Rauischholzhausen (University of Giessen) in 1999.
Transformed Stages: Performance and Media Techonology
SAMUEL WEBER: „Between a Human Life and a Word“: Benjamin’s Excitable Gestures / JILL SCOTT: Re-casting the Human on a Transformed Stage / HELGA FINTER: Theatre in a Society of the Spectacle / PAUL M. MALONE: Cyber-Kleist: The Virtual Actor as Über-Marionette / DAVID KILPATRICK: Catching Up With Gertrude: Stein’s Faustus and the Wooster Group / Margaret Hamilton: Terminal Desire: Enter Shop and The Necessary Orgy
Transformed Screens: Televison Drama
KENITH TRODD: Mediation / CHRISTOPHER WALKER: A Funny Business: Producing Situation Comedy / DEREK PAGET: Acting the Real: Daramatic Practices in Television Dramadoc/Docudrama / ROBIN NELSON: TV Drama: „Flexi-Narrative Form“ and „a New Affective Order“ / JOHN R. COOK: „Start Big and Then Build“: Sydney Newman and British Television Drama
Transformed Texts: Drama and Intermediality
EVERETT C. FROST: Contemporary American Literature and Radio Drama / Claudia Sternberg: „Return, I Will, to Old Brazil“ – Reading Screenplay Literature / JOHAN CALLENS: Sorting Out Ontologies in Mark Ravenhill’s Faust (Faust Is Dead) / JAMES M. HARDING: Historicity, the Cinematic, and Pam Gems’s Queen Christina / SUSAN BLATTÈS: The Blurring of Boundaries between Stage and Screen in Plays by Sam Shepard and David Mamet / MARTIN BUXBAUM: The Merging of Information and Entertainment – Politics, Drama, and the Television News Media in the United States / MARK BERNINGER: Children’s Games and Children’s Plays – Computer Adventures Meet the Stage in Alan Ayckbourn’s Mr A’s Amazing Maze Plays and Callisto 5
Bernhard Reitz and Alyce von Rothkirch, eds.
Crossing Borders – Intercultural Drama and Theatre at the Turn of the Millennium
Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001.
ISBN 3-88476-464-0, 202 pp., EUR 20,50
The volume contains the 16 papers given at the ninth CDE conference in Bad Alexandersbad (University of Bayreuth) in 2000.
- Bernhard Reitz and Alyce von Rothkirch: Crossing Borders: The 9th CDE Annual Conference at Bad Alexandersbad, November 2-5, 2000
- Jane Turner: The ‚Third‘ Spectator
- Angelika E. C. Keil: Postcolonial Identities: a Plurality of Experiences
- Stephanie Kramer: Postcolonial Experience and Intercultural Communication in Hanif Kureishi’s Borderline (1981) and Ayub Khan-Din’s East is East (1996)
- Mark Berninger: The Absence of the Intercultural? – The History of Anglo-Indian Relations in Ayub Khan-Din’s Last Dance at Dum Dum and Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink
- Christiane Schlote: Satire and Sociology: The Performing Powers of Meera Syal and Anna Deavere Smith
- Nüvid Mortan: Creating a Multicultural Space in Theatre: Bahar Noktasi – Can Yücel’s Creative Translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Edith Hallberg: Shakespeare’s Macbeth Crossing Borders: Violence and Reconciliation in Welcome Msomi’s Umabatha
- Heiko Stahl: „I won’t answer to the name Caliban“ – Négritude and the Master Narrative in Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest
- Beate Neumeier: Towards an Intercultural Theatre? Variations on Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- Ulrike Hattemer: Reading and Rewriting Shakespeare – the Anglo-Jewish Take on the Bard
- José Ramón Prado Pérez: Interculturalism, Subversion and the Quest for Identity in Chicano Theatre
- Alyce von Rothkirch: A Welsh National Theatre? Welsh Drama in English before the Second World War
- Anette Pankratz: Greek to Us? Appropriations of Myths in Contemporary British and Irish Drama
- Stefanie Brusberg-Kiermeier: Re-writing Seneca: Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love
- Heiner Zimmermann: Theatrical Transgression in Totalitarian and Democratic Societies: Shakespeare as a Trojan Horse and the Scandal of Sarah Kane
- Stuart Marlow: Pushing at the Limits of Representation: South African and Northern Irish Challenges to Accepted Notions of Dramatic Discourse
Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann, eds.
(Dis)Continuities – Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002.
ISBN 3-88476-520-5, 245 pp., EURO 23,00
The volume contains the 16 papers given at the tenth annual CDE conference held in Vienna in 2001.
- Werner Huber: Contemporary Drama as Meta-Cinema: Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones
- Peter Lenz: „Anything new in the feckin‘ west?“: Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy and the Juggling with Irish Literary Stereotypes
- Michael Raab: The End of a Wave: New British and Irish Plays in the German-speaking Theatre
- Martin Buxbaum: „It’s All Politics, Stupid!“: David Hare and Mark Ravenhill’s Latest, Via Dolorosa and Some Explicit Polaroids
- Merle Tönnies: The ‚Sensationalist Theatre of Cruelty‘ in 1990s Britain, its 1960s Forebears and the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Mary Luckhurst: Contemporary English Theatre: Why Realism?
- Howard Barker: The Ethics of Relevance and the Triumph of the Literal
- José Ramón Prado Pérez: Issues of Representation and Political Discourse in Caryl Churchill’s Latest Work
- Heiner Zimmermann: Martin Crimp, Attempts on her Life: Postdramatic, Postmodern, Satiric?
- Edith Hallberg: „The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the … player“: Strategies of Conflict Transformation in Contemporary Australian Drama
- Reade W. Dornan: Whither Black Theater in the U.S.? Ungerminated Seeds From the Thirties
- Pamela Monaco: Drawing Rooms Drawing Forth Our Social Anxieties
- Christopher Innes: Designing Modern Life: The Impact of Theater on American Society
- Michelene Wandor: Feminism and Theatre Now: Continuities and Discontinuities … plus ça change …
- Christoph Houswitschka: (Dis)Continuities in Recent British Holocaust Drama
- Nilufer E. Bharucha / Sridhar Rajeswaran: Performatives, Performance and Performance Spaces