Ort beider Veranstaltungen ist der Fakultätsraum (Raum 3.246) im Institut für deutsche Literatur der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin.

Vortragssprache ist Englisch, Diskussionssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Zum Vortrag

This talk explores how time matters to Brecht artistically, politically and (auto)biographically. Brecht fully grasped that in order to be understood rather than merely be told and represented, time needs artistic intervention to be processed, shaped, manipulated, experienced and made sense of. This he does in always engaging and often highly original ways, especially in some of his lyric poetry.

Within this genre, which features Brecht’s deepest and most nuanced thinking on the topic, the talk will focus specifically on the fascinating (and still under-explored) intersection between lyric poetry, drama and theatre theory that can be found in select ‘theatre poems,’ i.e. lyric poetry (from all stages of Brecht’s artistic life) which explicitly engages with some aspect(s) of theatre. The talk will conclude by taking a bigger and broader perspective on Brechtian conceptions of time. In doing so, it will develop an ideal typology which distinguishes between teleological time, cyclical time, crisis time and deep time. Brecht’s response to crisis time in particular may be something which resonates with audiences in the 2020s, especially European ones.

Zum Referenten

Martin Revermann is a classical philologist and cultural historian, with particular interests in theatre history (especially ancient Greek and 20th-century European theatre), theatre theory, translation, Brecht, ancient Greek religion, lyric poetry (both ancient and modern), the history of science as well as modes of comparatism. He is the author of Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy(Oxford 2006), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy (Cambridge 2014), A Cultural History of Theatre (Vol. 1: Antiquity) (London 2017), Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics (Cambridge 2022) and (as editor) Translating Latin and Greek: A Critical Guide (Cambridge 2027). In 2022 he was awarded the Humboldt Prize for his work.

Anmeldung

Eine formlose Anmeldung zum Workshop wird erbeten an: felix.christen@hu-berlin.de. Ein kleiner Reader zur Vorbereitung des Workshops wird nach der Anmeldung verschickt.