Peter M. Boenisch - Selected Publications#
Books
(co-author with Thomas Ostermeier) The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier. Routledge 2016. ISBN 978-1-13-891447-6 (paperback)/ 978-1-13-891446-9 (Hardback)
Directing Scenes & Senses: The Thinking of Regie. Manchester: Manchester University Press 2015. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9719-5 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5261-2301-5 (paperback).
körPERformance 1.0. Theorie und Analyse von Körper- und Bewegungsdarstellungen im zeitgenössischen Theater. München: ePodium 2002. Pp. 376. ISBN 3-9807394-6-5
Edited Collections
(ed.) Directors’ Theatre by David Bradby and David Williams. Enlarged 30th anniversary edition, Macmillan Red Globe 2019.ISBN 9781352007978 Hb./ 9781352007947 Pb.
(co-ed. with Clare Finburgh), The Great European Stage Directors, Vol. 6: Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon. Series ed.: Simon Shepherd. London: Bloomsbury Methuen 2018. ISBN 978-1-4742-5399-4.
(Ed., with Lourdes Orozco) Border Collisions: Contemporary Flemish Theatre, Contemporary Theatre Review - Special Issue Vol. 20, No. 4, 2010, ISSN 1048-6801 print, ISSN 1477-2264 online
(Ed., with Katharina Keim, Robert Braunmüller) Theater ohne Grenzen. München: Utz 2003. Pp. 504. ISBN 3-8316-0237-9
(Ed., with Ric Allsopp) Bodiescapes. Performance Research Vol. 8, No. 2, London/New York: Routledge 2003. Pp. 144. ISBN 0-415-32131-X
Essays and Book Chapters
Im Theater-Laboratorium: Theatrale Methodikforschung als Partnerschaft von Theaterwissenschaft und Theaterpraxis‘, in Christopher Balme and Berenika Szymanski, eds, Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft. Tübingen: Narr 2019.
Dissecting European lives under global capitalism: Hyper-realism and dramatic excess in the plays of Marius von Mayenburg and Roland Schimmelpfennig, in Maria Delgado, Dan Rebellato, Bryce Lease, eds, Contemporary European Playwrights. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2020.
‘Thomas Ostermeier: A ‘sociological theatre’ for the age of globalised precarity’, in Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato, eds, Contemporary European Theatre Directors – 2nd edition. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2020.
‘Encountering a ‘theatre of (inter-)singularity’: Transformations and rejections of shifting institutional dramaturgies in contemporary German theatre’, in Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christel Weiler and Torsten Jost, eds, Shifting Dramaturgies: Composing Experiences of Interweaving Performance Cultures. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2020.
'The hopeless courage of confronting contemporary realities: Milo Rau’s “globally conceived theatre of humanity”’, in Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan, eds, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2019, 243-46.
(with Clare Finburgh) ‘A Popular Theatre for All: Western European Theatre Direction in the Mid-Twentieth Century’, in Peter M Boenisch and Clare Finburgh, eds, The Great Directors, Vol. 6: Littlewood, Planchon, Strehler. Hg. der Reihe: Simon Shepherd. London: Bloomsbury Methuen 2018, p. 7-52. ISBN 978-1-4742-5399-4.
Gra z efektem R(ealizmu): Wprowadzenie do twórczości teatralnej Thomasa Ostermeiera’, in Litteraria Copernicana, No. 2 (26), 169-181(transl. into Polish)
Die Überflüssigen: Ursina Lardi als Birdie Hubbard und Maria Braun in Thomas Ostermeiers „soziologischer“ Theaterregie‘, in Anne Fournier, Paola Gilardi, Andreas Klaeui, Yvonne Schmidt, eds, MIMOS 2017 – Schweizer Theaterjahrbuch 79: Ursina Lardi. Bern: Peter Lang 2017, p. 206-11 [Version en français: p. 212-18; versione italiana: pp. 219-24; English version: pp. 225-9], ISBN Print: 978-3-0343-3217-0; ISBN eBook: 978-3-0343-3218-7
„Der Regisseur ist auch niemals wirklich wichtig gewesen, das ist ein Missverständnis“: Zur Kollektivregie im niederländischsprachigen Theater‘, in Nic Leonhardt, ed., Theater-Wissen quer denken: Facetten szenischer Künste aus drei Jahrzehnten. Berlin: Neofelis 2017, 125-36. ISBN 978-3-95808-147-5
‘“An actor, but in life“: Spectatorial consciousness and materialist theatre. Some notes apropos Althusser‘, in Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki, eds, Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 81-99. ISBN 978-1-349-95099-7.
Regie und die „Aufteilung des Sinnlichen“: Überlegungen zur Theorie der Theaterregie‘, in Michael Gissenwehrer and Katharina Keim, eds, Materialität(en) des Kultur- und Wissenstransfers in prä- und transnationalen Kontexten, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2015, 159-70. ISBN 978-3-631-64937-4. (Series Kulturwissenschaft(en) als interdisziplinäres Projekt, Vol. 8),
Contributions to Cambridge Encyclopedia of Actors and Acting, ed. Simon Williams, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015. ISBN 9780521769549.
“Tanz als Körper-Zeichen: Zur Methodik der Theater-Tanz-Semiotik“, in Gabriele Klein, Gabriele Brandstetter, eds, Methoden der Tanzwissenschaft: Modellanalysen zu Pina Bauschs »Le Sacre du Printemps«, 2. erw. Neuauflage. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015, 35-52, ISBN 978-3-8376-2651-3.
‘Who’s watching? Me! – Theatrality, the Žižekian Subject and Spectatorship’, in Broderick Chow and Alex Mangold, eds, Žižek & Performance, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave 2014, 48-60. ISBN 9781137410900.
‘The Play of Regie: Some notes on a new theory of Regie, prompted by contemporary directions in German “directors’ theatre”’, in Critical Stages Vol. 10, October 2014, http://www.criticalstages.org/
‘Poetic Relations with the Real: Notes on the Actuality of Dramaturgy in the End Times’, in Katharina Pewny, Johan Callens, Jeroen Coppens, eds, Dramaturgies in the New Millennium: Relationality, Performativity, and Potentiality. Tübingen: Narr 2014 (Forum Modernes Theater Vol. 44), 200-216. ISBN 978-3-8233-6873-1.
(with Thomas Ostermeier), ‘The More Political We Are, the Better We Sell’: A Conversation about the Political Potential of Directing Classical Drama and the Nasty Traps of Today’s Cultural Industry’, in Performance Paradigm 10 (2014), http://www.performanceparadigm.net/journal/issue-10/articles/%E2%80%98the-more-political-we-are-the-better-we-sell%E2%80%99-a-conversation-about-the-political-potential-of-directing-classical-drama-and-the-nasty-traps-of-today%E2%80%99s-cultural-industry/
‘Creating X-Rays of the Text to Dissect the Present: An Interview with Ivo van Hove’, in Margherita Laera, ed., Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat. London and New York: Methuen 2014, 49-62.. ISBN 978-1-4081-8472-1.
‘What happened to our Nation of Culture? Staging the theatre of the Other Germany ‘, in Nadine Holdsworth, ed., Theatre and National Identity: Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation, Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2014, 145-160, ISBN 978-0-415-82299-2
‘Acts of Spectating: The Dramaturgy of the Audience’s Experience in Contemporary Theatre’, in Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane, eds, New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. London: Methuen, 2014, 225-41. ISBN 978-1-4081-7709-9.
‘Spectres of Subjectivity: On the Fetish of Identity in (Post-)Postdramatic Choreography’, in Jerome Carroll, Steve Giles, and and Karen-Juers Munby, eds, Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance. London: Methuen, 2013, 111-128. ISBN 978-1-4081-8570-4.
‘Directing & Dialectics: Re-thinking Regietheater’, in Helen Minors, Laura Cull, John Mullarkey, eds, How Performance Thinks, Conference Proceedings, Practice Research Unit/Kingston University and PSI Performance Philosophy Working Group 2013 http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/downloads/conference-performance-thinks-proceedings.pdf
‘Theaterwissenschaft Global: Zur internationalen Vernetzung von Studium und Forschung‘, in Forum Modernes Theater: Sonderheft Theaterwissenschaft im deutschsprachigen Raum (2010), 39-44, ISBN 978-3-8233-6609-6
‘Frank Castorf and the Berlin Volksbühne: The Humiliated and Insulted (2001)’ and keyword entry ‘transcoding’, in Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson, eds, Mapping Intermediality in Performance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010, 187, 196-202. ISBN 978 90 8964 255 4
with Christel Stalpaert: ‘Jan Fabres Affirmationsfalle: Von der (Un-) Möglichkeit politischen Theaters im Zeitalter der Toleranz‘, in Forschungszentrum Sound and Movement, ed., Spielart Festival Reloaded. Berlin: Henschel, 2010, 62-88. ISBN 978-3-89487-661-6
‘Towards a Theatre of Encounter and Experience: Reflexive Dramaturgies and Classic Texts’ - In: Contemporary Theatre Review Vol.20(2) 2010, Special issue 'New Dramaturgies', ed. Synne Behrndt and Cathy Turner, 162-172, ISSN 1048-6801 (print), 1477-2264 (online)
‘Thomas Ostermeier: mission neo(n)realism and a theatre of actors and authors’, in Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato, eds, Contemporary European Theatre Directors, Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2010, 339-359, ISBN 978-0-415-46251-8
'Exposing The Classics: Michael Thalheimer’s Regie beyond the Text”, Contemporary Theatre Review, Special issue 'German Theatre Beyond the Text ', 18:1, February 2008, pp.30-43, ISSN: 1477-2264 (electronic) 1048-6801 (paper)
'Other People Live: Rimini Protokoll and their Theatre of Experts - an interview', Contemporary Theatre Review, Special issue 'German Theatre Beyond the Text ', 18:1, February 2008, pp. 107-13, ISSN: 1477-2264 (electronic) 1048-6801 (paper)
“Multisensuality and Postdramatic Mise-en-Scène: The ro:theater's Proust-Project”, in Malgorzata Sugiera, Mateusz Borowski, eds, Fictional Realities/Real Fictions: Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp. 121-134, ISBN 9781847181381
“Tanz als Körper-Zeichen: Zur Methodik der Theater-Tanz-Semiotik“, in Gabriele Klein, Gabriele Brandstetter, eds, Bewegung in Übertragung, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007, pp. 29-45, ISBN 3-89942-558-8 [on a semiotic approach to analysing dance as theatre, exemplified on Pina Bausch’s Sacre]
“Decreation Inc.: William Forsythe’s equations of ‘bodies before the name’”, Contemporary Theatre Review, 'The Changing Body', Vol. 17, no. 1., 2007, pp. 15-27, ISSN 1048-6801 *NOMINATED FOR THE ATHE Outstanding Article Award 2007*
“Mediation Unfinished. Choreographing Intermediality in Contemporary Dance Performance.” – In: Chiel Kattenbelt, Freda Chapple, eds, Intermediality in Theatre and Performance, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2006, pp. 151-166. ISBN 90-420-1629-9
“Aesthetic Art to Aisthetic Act. Theatre, Media, Intermedial Performance” – In: Chiel Kattenbelt, Freda Chapple, eds, Intermediality in Theatre and Performance, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2006, pp. 103-116. ISBN 90-420-1629-9
“Komik und Konsumzwang: Zwischen Jux und Jucken – Komische Gesten bei Forced Entertainment” - In: Maske und Kothurn. Vierteljahresschrift zur Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 51, Heft 4 (Winter 2005), specical issue „Komik: Ästhetik. Theorien. Vermittlungsstrategien", pp. 335-345 ISBN 3-205-77434-5 [on Forced Entertainment’s First Night’]
“Alienating Realities. Hygiene Heute and the Politics of Sonic Conspiracy” – In: 3xT Tidsskrift for teori og teater, Nr 15&16/2004, 40-49.ISSN 0807-6316
„Ent-Körpern, Ent-Schreiben, Ent-Schöpfen. Wie sich die Tanztheorie von Forsythe's 'Decreation' zur Dekonstruktion der Diskurse über das Ballett verleiten ließ“ - In: BalletTanz Jahrbuch 2004, pp. 56-61 ISBN 3617559948 [on William Forsythe's choreography ’Decreation’]
"Theater der Sensationen. Performance als Wahrnehmungs-Labor" - In: Hajo Kurzenberger, Annemarie Matzke [Eds]: TheorieTheaterPraxis, Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2004, pp. 261-68 ISBN 3934344291 [audience as experience in performance pieces by Hygiene Heute and Felix Ruckert]
"ElectrONic Bodies. Corpo-Realities in Contemporary Dance Performance" - In: Moving Bodies. Performance Research 8.4/2003, 33-41. ISBN 0-415-32133-6
"Theater als Medium der Moderne? Zum Verhältnis von Medientechnologien und Bühne im 20. Jahrhundert" - In: Christopher Balme, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Stephan Grätzel [Eds]: Theater als Paradigma der Moderne? Positionen zwischen historischer Avantgarde und Medienzeitalter. Mainzer Forschungen zu Drama und Theater 28. Tübingen: Francke 2003, 447-456 ISBN 3-7720-2796-2 [theorising theatre as a medium]
"Realität - Fiktion - Alienation. Hygiene Heute und die Politik der Grenzverschiebung im Performancetheater" - In: Katharina Keim, Peter M Boenisch, Robert Braunmüller [Eds]: Theater ohne Grenzen. München: Utz 2003, 456-64 ISBN 3831602379 [shifting borders into fields of ‚alienation’; in-depth study of the performance collective Hygiene Heute]
"coMEDIA electrONica. Performing intermediality in contemporary theatre" - In: Theatre Research International, Vol. 28, No. 1, March 2003, 34-45. ISSN 0307-8833
• "www dot theatre dot. Alice Croft, or: Transforming Performance in the Internet Culture" - In: Body, Space and Technology, Vol.2 No. 2/2002 ISSN 1470-9120
"Der Darsteller auf der Bühne: Klangkörper <> Zeichenkörper. Zur Problematik der Korporealität (nicht nur) im Musiktheater." - In: Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer [Ed.]: Stimmen - Töne - Klänge. Tübingen: Gunter Narr 2002, 139-52 ISBN 3-8233-5230-X [introducing the central theatrical triangle of representation/presentation/presence as foundation for a post-semiotic approach to theatre]
"Der Körper als Zeichen!? Zur Analyse von Körper- und Bewegungsdarstellungen" - In: tanzdrama 62/1-2002, 18-21 ISSN 0932-8688 [explaining analytical approaches to contemporary physical theatre discussing the work of director Helena Waldmann]
"Der Körper als Zeichen!?" - In: Gabriele Klein, Christa Zipprich (Eds): Tanz.Theorie.Text. Jahrbuch Tanzforschung 12. Münster u.a.: Lit 2002, 383-95 ISBN 3825859010 [extended version of the former journal essay for a book publication]
(with Christopher Balme): "Re-Play. Wiederholung der Welt - Welten der Wiederholung im zeitgenössischen britischen Drama" - In: Jürgen Felix/Bernd Kiefer/Susanne Marschall/Marcus Stiglegger [Eds]: Die Wiederholung. Marburg: Schüren 2001, 269-84 ISBN 3-89472-334-3 [on plays by Mark Ravenhill and Sarah Kane]
"Synthesized Dreams Of Moving Men: ElectrONic Bodies, Movement, and Meaning in the works of DV8 Physical Theatre "- In: Dance Theater: An International Investigation. Proceedings of the MoMentUm I Conference, Manchester 2001, 122-27 ISBN 1870355105
"Tanztheorie und Sprechtheater. Perspektiven der Analyse von Körperzeichen im zeitgenössischen Theater." - In: Claudia Jeschke/Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer [Eds]: Bewegung im Blick. Berlin: Vorwerk 8 (Theatralia, Documenta Choreologica) 2000, 16-29 ISBN 3930916223 [sketching perspectives of analysing physical theatre]
"I doubt not I, but she will stoop in time: Frauenfiguren in Tamburlaine und The Spanish Tragedy" - In: ZAA. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. XLV/1997, 325-338 ISSN 0044-2305 [contrasting representations of femininity in these Renaissance plays]
