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0521855144 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre - by David Barnett
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Abendroth, Friedrich 205

Abs, Josef 241

action-kino 22, 30

action-theater 3, 5, 10, 17, 19, 22, 74, 75, 76, 80, 82, 84, 89, 92, 128, 137, 138, 145, 147, 197, 199, 251, 252, 261

   description of 23

   history of 22–61

   role of politicians in its closure 60–1, 75

Adenauer, Konrad 15, 236

Aly, Götz Haydar 60

antiteater 3, 5, 9, 10, 21, 31, 42, 51, 61, 64, 65, 66–7, 69, 117, 126, 127, 128, 132, 135, 136, 137, 148, 172, 179, 192, 197, 199, 211, 252

   as banner for Blut production 115, 149

   history of 79–6

APO (‘Extra-Parliamentary Opposition’) 19, 62, 63, 64, 67, 86, 176

Aristophanes

   Women in the Assembly 177–8

Aristotle 69

Artaud, Antonin 5, 71, 78, 100, 104

   The Theatre and Its Double 222–3

Assenmacher, Karl-Heinz 159

Auschwitz 31, 107, 227, 229, 234, 246, 247, 248

Axel Caesar Haarmann 59, 87

   The devising process 55

   analysis of 55–9

   production at the action-theater 59

Baader, Andreas 51, 52

Baader-Meinhof group 51

Baarova, Lida 162

Bachmann, Josef 54

Baer, Harry 99, 115, 160, 172

   Werwolf (Werewolf ) 92, 115–17, 118

Bahn, Roma 228

Barnett, David 150

Barthes, Roland 253

   ‘the Death of the Author’ 230, 245

Baumgart, Reinhard 199

Bausch, Pina 222

The Beatles 33

Becker, Peter von 236

Becker, Rolf 177

Beckett, Samuel 3, 87, 155

   Endgame 176

Behan, Brendan

   The Hostage 123

Benjamin, Walter 63

Bergmann, Werner 233

Berlin Communards 52, 67–9, 88, 91

Berliner Ensemble 36, 73, 122

Berling, Peter 1, 98, 173

Berninger, Helmut 21, 39, 45, 83

The Bitburg affair 239–40

Blancas, Sombrad 222

Boal, Augusto 69

Böhm, Karlheinz 4, 170

Bohnen, Klaus 72

Bond, Edward

   Saved 53

Boothe, Claire Luce 4, 219

   The Women 4, 218–19

Brady, Ian, see Fassbinder, Preparadise Sorry Now

Braun, Karlheinz 226, 257

Brecht, Bertolt 5, 6–3

   Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) 98, 228

   Elefantenkalb (The Elephant Calf) 25

   epic narration 57

   Haltung (‘attitude’) 53, 78

   Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (The Caucasian Chalk Circle) 74

   Kleinbürgerhochzeit (Petit-Bourgeois or Middle-Class Wedding) 27

   Lehrstück (‘the learning play’) 58, 70, 72, 73, 80

   Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and her Children) 74, 159, 197, 199

   reception of his political theatre 69–6, 127, 128, 131, 136, 137, 139, 140, 143–8, 162, 163, 166–9, 170, 177–8, 179, 188, 220, 254

Brocher, Corinna 202

Bruckner, Ferdinand 40, 41, 43

   Krankheit der Jugend (Diseased Youth) 46, 47

   Die Verbrecher (The Criminals) 25, 38, 39, 40, 191

     production at the action-theater 39, 46, 74, 85, 252

     revival in Essen 137, 139, 149, 178, 207, 254

     production in Frankfurt 202, 205–7

Brumlik, Micha 245

Brustellin, Alf 29, 53

Bubis, Ignatz 243

Büchner, Georg 21, 33

   Dantons Tod (Danton’s Death) 21, 83

   Leonce und Lena (Leonce and Lena), production at the action-theater 33–5, 54, 82

     guest performances in Paris 36

   Woyzeck 21

The Büchner Theater 21, 39, 41, 79, 80

   and Orgie Ubuh 81–4

Bügner, Torsten 50, 106

Bullivant, Keith 62, 66

Bund für Volksbildung (BfV) (‘League for People’s Education’) 188, 189, 197, 213, 216, 234

The Bundeswehr

   Training methods used in Antigone 28

   Fassbinder acts for 54–5

Bürgerliches Trauerspiel 164, 165, 174

Burleson, Bob 37

   Hands Up, Heiliger Johannes (Hands Up, John the Baptist) 35

     production at the action-theater 37

Büscher, Barbara 222, 223

Calandra, Denis 104, 262

Callas, Maria 186

Canaris, Volker 185

Carstensen, Margit 132, 136, 138, 144, 154, 160, 161, 167, 169, 170, 183, 187, 202–3, 219, 224, 234

Castorf, Frank 173

Caven, Ingrid 47, 73, 77, 207, 234

CDU (Christian Democratic Union) 13, 15, 18, 216, 236, 238, 239, 242

Chekhov, Anton 134

   Uncle Vanya 191, 210–11

Coberg, Klaus 162

Cocteau, Jean

   La Voix humaine 225

Commedia dell’arte 128

Contra-Kreis 20

Crawford, Joan 218

Croiset, Jules 244

Cukor, George

   The Women 218

Czaschke, Annemarie 53, 59, 60, 101

Daiber, Hans 127

Dannecke, Hermann 134, 135

Dennoch-Verlag 22

Desch Verlag 45

Deutsch, Ernst 18

Der deutsche Bühnenverein (The German Theatre Association) 14, 137, 139, 207

   and Mitbestimmung 178

Dietrich, Marlene 186

Döblin, Alfred

   Berlin Alexanderplatz 96, 248

Documentary drama, materials and aesthetics 16, 19, 27, 55, 56, 64, 68, 87, 102, 117, 162, 163, 222–4, 247

Donner, Wolf 144

Dorst, Tankred 186

Duběek, Alexander 89

Duensing, Erich 86

Dürer, Albrecht 134, 148, 153

Dutschke, Rudi 19, 54, 55, 57, 109

DVU (German People’s Union) 245

Eckardt, Bernd 75, 77

Eder, Liselotte 31

Eichholz, Armin 135

Einstein, Albert 153

Elsaesser, Thomas 2

Emigholz, Erich 124, 125, 155

Emmer, Uta 79

Enger, Ralph 99

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus 63–5, 68, 85

   and ‘The Death of Literature’ 63–5

   Das Verhör von Habana (The Interrogation in Havana) 64

Erhard, Ludwig 18

Esslin, Gudrun 51

Euripides 32

Everding, August 19, 109, 179

Fallada, Hans

   Kleiner Mann, was nun? (What now, Little Man?) 186

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

   acts in and partly directs Miss Julie in Frankfurt 201–5, 255

   adaptation techniques 40–1, 130–1

   adapts and directs Die Verbrecher (The Criminals) for the action-theater 39, 40–1, 46, 47, 74, 85, 252

   Ajax (co-written with Raben) 92, 93, 94, 97

     analysis of 93–4

     production at the antiteater 92–3

   Der amerikanische Soldat (The American Soldier) (film) 96, 97, 140

   Der amerikanische Soldat (The American Soldier) (play) 39, 92, 94

     analysis of 95–8

   Anarchie in Bayern (Anarchy in Bavaria) 109, 117, 118, 127, 130, 136

     analysis of 109–11

     production by the antiteater at the Münchner Kammerspiele 111–12, 128

   Anormal Human Ugly Voice 225

   applies for and attains post of artistic director at the TAT 188–90

   as Artaudian 5–3

   Berlin Alexanderplatz 226

   Die Bettleroper (The Beggar’s Opera) 65, 66, 77, 78, 98, 101, 109, 111, 114

     analysis of 98–9, 100–1

     production at the antiteater 99–60

     limitations of allegorical reading 160

     problem with superficial naturalism 169–70, 249

     production in Darmstadt and Frankfurt 160–2, 256

     production in Switzerland 162

   Blut am Hals der Katze (Blood on the Cat’s Neck)

     analysis of 149–53

     production in Nuremberg 153; on tour 155–3

   on Brecht 6, 72–3, 251–3

   Bremer Freiheit (Bremen Freedom) (play) 163, 170, 194, 255, 257, 259, 260, 262

     analysis of 163–6

     problem with superficial naturalism 169–70

     production in Bremen 166–9, 179

   Bremer Freiheit (Bremen Freedom) (version for television) 169

   Das brennende Dorf (The Burning Village) 140, 162, 214, 257

     analysis of 140–3

     production at the Bremer Theater 140, 143–5, 149

   Chinesisches Roulette 132

   co-directs Mockinpott with Jörg Schmitt 79–7

   directs Frauen in New York in Hamburg 4, 5, 218–22, 224, 254, 256, 261

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

   directs Germinal in Frankfurt 197–2

   directs Liliom in Bochum 183–5, 193, 255

   directs Uncle Vanya in Frankfurt 170, 210–11

   directs Die Unvernünftigen in Frankfurt 192–5, 254

   Dolci Canti di Cancor (Sweet Songs of Cancer) 225

   Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun) 82, 187

   Ende endlos (An End without an End) 225

   enduring popularity of the plays 259–61

   Faedra 224–5

   fascination with language 9, 43, 48, 49, 105, 107, 110, 118, 130, 149, 157

   first lead role in a film (Schuldig oder Nichtschuldig) 54–5

   Fontane Effi Briest 86

   Frankenstein am Main (Frankenstein on the Main) 214

   ‘Frankfurt’ play(s) 190, 214, 216, 217, 227

   Frauen in New York (version for television) 221, 256

   Gewidmet Rosa von Praunheim (Dedicated to Rosa von Praunheim) 113, 114

   and Haltung (Brechtian ‘attitude’) 53, 78, 153, 254

   Hedda Gabler 4

   In einem Jahr mit dreizehn Monden (In a Year of Thirteen Moons) 261

   Iphigenie auf Tauris von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Iphigenia on Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) 68, 85, 95, 99, 102, 108, 130, 140, 143–5, 197, 257

     analysis of 85–9

     on tour in Berlin 91–2

     protest at the première 76

     production at the antiteater 84, 89–8

   joins the action-theater 30–2

   Das Kaffeehaus (The Coffee House) (play) 72, 118, 162, 257, 259, 260, 261

     analysis of 128–30

     production at the antiteater 135–5, 136, 148, 153, 194, 254, 255

     takes over direction 131–2

   Das Kaffeehaus (The Coffeehouse) (version for television) 131, 136

   and the Kammerspiele Boycott 179–80

   Katzelmacher (film) 99, 112, 136, 137

   Katzelmacher (play) 46, 53, 59, 77, 80, 85, 98, 101, 102, 106, 108, 111, 116, 130, 149, 214, 249, 251, 252, 259, 261, 262

     analysis of 47–3, 74, 255

   Das kleine Chaos (A Little Chaos) 30, 31

   leaves the TAT 216–17

   Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (Love is Colder than Death) 55, 109, 112, 136

   Martha 4, 132, 170

   and melodrama 156, 173, 225

   Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod (Rubbish, the City and Death) 11, 230, 246, 248, 252, 257, 260, 262

     analysis of 227–32

     cancelled production at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt 238–9, 243

     cancelled production at the Schauspiel Frankfurt 239, 240–4, 261

     cancelled production in Berlin 244–5

     early reactions to 232–7

     Fest’s intervention 235–7, 239, 240, 241

     oral testament regarding performance of 238, 241

     problems at the TAT 234–5, 237, 239, 243

     productions and failed productions outside Germany 244

     ‘Secret’ production in Bochum 245

   and multi-media 2, 7–1, 256

   Die Niklashauser Fart (The Journeye to Niklashausen) 139

   no single style in his work 8–4, 257

   Nur eine Scheibe Brot (Just a Slice of Bread) 30, 246, 249, 257, 262

     analysis of 246–7

     posthumous première of 247–8

   and opera 225–6

   Orgie Ubuh (Ubuh Orgy) 81, 83, 85, 91, 98, 114

     partly adapts and directs Ubu Roi as Orgie Ubuh (Ubuh Orgy) for the antiteater 81

   and pessimism 71–2, 101–8

   Pioniere in Ingolstadt (Military Engineers in Ingolstadt) (film) 45, 140, 145, 255

   Pioniere in Ingolstadt (Military Engineers in Ingolstadt) (adapted play) 145

     the text 147

     production at the Bremer Theater 147–8, 149

   plan to direct Othello in Berlin 172

   plans the programme for the TAT 190–2

   on his position within the Stadttheater system

   and the postdramatic 134, 254–5

   posthumous reworkings of the plays and films 260–1

   Preparadise Sorry Now 98, 108, 111, 115, 116, 130, 149, 150, 170, 249, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262

     analysis of 102–6

     controversial subject matter 101–2

     genesis of 102

     production at the antiteater 106–7, 153

   Querelle 130

   relationship with Raben as co-director 41

   relationship with Zadek after Bochum 187

   revives Die Verbrecher in Essen 137, 139, 149, 178, 207, 254

   Satansbraten (Satan’s Brew) 5, 220, 261

   Die schönen Tangos der Faschisten (The Fascists’ Beautiful Tangos) 173

   Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss) 187

   Showdown (one-day festival in Bremen) 136, 255

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

   Der Stadtstreicher (The Vagrant) 30

   Theater in Trance (Theatre in a Trance) 5, 222–4

   Theaterarbeit (Work in the Theatre) 36–7

   as theatre director 77–9, 132–3, 153, 174, 251–7

   and the theatricality of his films 7–7

   Tropfen auf heisse Steine (Water Drops on Burning Rocks) 30, 250, 260

     analysis of 248–9

     posthumous première of 249–50

   unrealized plans for season 1975/6 at the TAT 209, 213–14, 227

   unrealized plans for work in the theatre after 1976 224–7

   and the value of theatre 4–2

   and Volkstheater 190

   Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware the Holy Whore) (film) 117, 140

   Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware the Holy Whore) (play) 172, 257

     analysis of 172–3

     never staged 173

   Werwolf (Werewolf) 92, 115, 117, 118, 136

     analysis of 115–16

     production at the Forum Theater 116–17, 135, 149

   Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?) 261

   Whity 93, 117

   Wildwechsel (Wild Game) 40

   wins Gerhard Hauptmann Prize 137

   Zadek brings F to Bochum 181–3

   Zum Beispiel Ingolstadt (Ingolstadt, for Example) 39, 40, 50, 52, 53, 79

     adapts and co-directs Zum Beispiel 40, 41–4, 47, 74, 147, 253

FDP (Free Democratic Party of Germany) 18, 242

Fehling, Jürgen 18

Fest, Joachim, see Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod

Feydeau, Georges 190

Finnan, Carmel 49

Firaza, Joanna 5, 8, 71, 101, 110, 249

Fleisser, Marieluise 17, 39, 40, 43, 44, 50

   Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt (Purgatory in Ingolstadt) 49

   Pioniere in Ingolstadt (Military Engineers in Ingolstadt) 39, 46, 85, 147

     difficulties with the action-theater production

Fontane, Theodore 86

Forum Theater, Berlin 51, 91–2, 108, 112, 116

Frederick the Great 143

Freud, Sigmund

   Totem and Taboo 141

Fridl-Leonhard Acting School 30

Friedmann, Michel 241

Friedrich, Regina 188

Fuchs, Matthias 193, 195

Funke, Hajo 240

Gabrea, Radu 2

   Ein Mann wie EVA (A Man like EVA) 1, 173

Gardner, Anatol von 32

Gastarbeiter (‘guest workers’) 48, 49, 85, 214, 261

Gay, John 64, 98–9

Geisler, Achim 35

Gelber, Jack

   The Connection 51

Genet, Jean

   Le Balcon 123

   Querelle 130

Giehse, Therese 45

Godard, Jean-Luc 35, 89, 248

Goebbels, Joseph 162

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 64, 76, 85, 86, 95, 99, 197, 208

   Faust 186

   Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia on Tauris) 68, 84, 86, 93–4

   Torquato Tasso 124–5

   Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship 248

van Gogh, Vincent 5

Goldoni, Carlo 64, 129, 194

   The Flatterer 215

   Il Bodega del Café 126, 129, 220

     description of 128

Gombrowicz, Witold

   Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy 25, 145

Gorky, Maxim 191

   The Lower Depths 190

Gottfried, Geesche 163, 260

Grabbe, Christian Dietrich

   Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung (Jokes, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning) 179

Grack, Günther 92

Grass, Günter 179

The Green Party 240

Greiselis, Marite 31, 32

Grüber, Klaus Michael 125

Gründgens, Gustaf 14, 15, 121, 122

Gruppe 47 17

Gryphius, Andreas

   Herr Peter Squenz (Mr Peter Quince) 113

Guthrie, Tyrone 123

Haarmann, Fritz 55, 56

Hahn, Peter 226

Handke, Peter 16–7, 30

   Quodlibet 154

   Der Ritt über den Bodensee (The Ride across Lake Constance) 154

   Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus (They Are Dying Out)

     production in Frankfurt 192–5, 205

Hartmann, Rainer 194, 213

Hatry, Michael

   Notstandsübung (Rehearsing the State of Emergency) 58

Hayman, Ronald 1, 54, 220

Hebbel, Friedrich

   Maria Magdalene 165–6

     plan to produce MM in Frankfurt 166, 191

Heer, Hannes 243

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 52

   Die Wissenschaft der Logik (The Science of Logic) 151, 153, 154

Heigl, Alois Michael 131–2

Heising, Ulrich 219

Henrichs, Benjamin 8, 154, 187, 200

Hermann, Irm 39, 44, 46, 54, 59, 76, 83, 94, 115, 160, 193, 201, 202, 207, 219

Herrmann, Wilhelm 134, 145

Hess, Rudolf 105

Hilpert, Heinz 18

Hilsdorf, Dietrich 240, 243

Hindemith, Paul 144

Hindley, Myra, see Preparadise Sorry Now

Hirschmüller, Hans 77, 128, 132, 136, 153, 167

Hitler, Adolf 57, 111, 236, 241

Hochhuth, Rolf 58

   Der Stellvertreter (The Deputy/The Representative) 16

Hofer, Hermann 154

Hoffmann, Hilmar 188, 238, 241

Höffner, Donata 219

Holefleisch, Heiko 241

Hollmann, Hans 125

Horn, Effi 35, 40

Horváth, Ödön von 6–8, 180

Humphrey, Hubert 67

Hüngsberg, Gottfried von 60, 89

Ibsen, Henrik 71

   Hedda Gabler

     F’s production in West Berlin 170–2, 173

Iden, Peter 122, 144, 155, 165, 178, 183, 193, 200, 205, 207, 214, 255

Intendant 7, 9, 13, 14–8, 179, 180, 181, 189, 217, 219, 238, 240, 245

   definition 7

Ionesco, Eugène 16

   Jakob oder der Gehorsam (Jack or Submission)

     action-theatre production 22, 23–5, 36

Jäger, Gerd 186, 221

Jahnn, Hans Henny 25

Jarry, Alfred

   Ubu Roi (King Ubu) 25, 82

     production by the antiteater 81

Jenny, Urs 91

Jeremias, Brigitte 223

Jessner, Leopold 120

Johler, Jens 175–7

John, Gottfried 202–3

Joyce, James 248

Jünger, Ernst 241

Kafka, Franz 82

Karasek, Hellmuth 169, 243

Karsunke, Yaak 23, 25, 32, 35, 37, 44, 53, 60, 83, 91, 92, 95

   Germinal 197–2

   role of politicians 22

Ketelsen, Uwe 181

Kiesinger, Kurt 18, 34, 111

Kilbride, John, see Fassbinder, Preparadise Sorry Now

King, Martin Luther 57

Kipphardt, Heinar 58

   In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer (In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) 16

   and the Kammerspiele Boycott 179–80

Kirn, Thomas 155

Klassikerzertrümmerung (‘reducing of the classics to rubble’)

Kleist, Heinrich von

   Das Käthchen von Heilbronn 182

Knabe, Gerd

   Bubis contra Fassbinder 242

Kohl, Helmut 234, 239

Köhler, Hanna 154

Kohout, Pavel

   Around the World in Eighty Days 216

Kommune Eins or K1, see Berlin Communards

König, Michael 134

Kortner, Fritz 18

Koska, Elke 37, 39

Kotschenreuther, Hellmuth 117

Krää, Gunter 52, 59, 76, 77, 79, 84

Kramberg, K. H. 35

Krämer-Badoni, Rudolf 188, 190, 242

Krauss, Max 30

Krebs, Dieter 104

Kroetz, Franz Xaver 40

Kurras, Karl-Heinz 87

Laing, R. D. 191

Lang, Charles 173

Lange, Mechthild 221

Langhans, Rainer 67, 88

Laube, Horst 193

Lehmann, Hans-Thies 51, 134

Lerner, Irving

   Murder by Contract 96

Lichtenstein, Heiner 243

Lietzau, Hans 176

Limmer, Wolfgang 78, 160, 224

Link, Jonathan 25

Living Theatre 5, 27, 29, 51, 66, 101

   Paradise Now 106

Lommel, Ulli 187

Lorenz, Juliane 173, 227

Löwitsch, Klaus 229

Lübke, Heinrich 34

Luft, Friedrich 171

Lütgenhorst, Manfred 25

Mack, Gerhard 247

Magazzini Criminali 222

Mann, Heinrich 143

   Bibi 185–7

Mann, Klaus

   Mephisto 14

Mao Zedong 88, 110

Marcuse, Herbert

   One-Dimensional Man 65

Marowitz, Charles 81

Marx, Karl and Marxism 65, 71, 155, 200

Mattes, Doris 47, 75, 76

Mattes, Eva 2, 219

Mauer, Burkhard 162, 163

Maxim-Gorki Theater, Berlin, see Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod

Meier, Armin 211

Meinhof, Ulrike 51

von Mengershausen, Joachim 23, 40, 60, 81, 92, 99, 107, 113, 132

   Ende einer Kommune (End of a Commune) 110, 117–18, 132

Metadrama and metatheatre 44, 86

Michaelis, Rolf 123, 127, 171–2

Militz, Klaus Ulrich 8, 71, 72, 74

Miller, Arthur

   The Crucible 69–4, 133, 143, 145, 167

Mitbestimmung (‘collective decision- making’)

   at the TAT 189, 190, 192, 197, 202, 207, 209–10, 211, 213, 215, 216

Mitscherlich, Alexander and Margarete

   Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern (The Inability to Mourn) 15, 233

Moland, Peter 115

Molnár, Ferenc

   Liliom 182, 183–5

Monroe, Marilyn 151

Moors Murders, see Fassbinder, Preparadise Sorry Now

Mörbius, Peter 201, 209, 213

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 113

Mulisch, Harry

   The Theatre, the Letter and the Truth 260–1

Müller, Felix 189

Müller, Heiner 173, 226, 238, 239

   Die Hamletmaschine 226

Münchner Kammerspiele 30, 53, 109, 116, 179, 251

Nagel, Ivan 219, 222

Nahoun, Philippe 209

Neher, Caspar 124

Neuenfels, Hans 125

Nitribitt, Rosemarie 214, 228

Nolte, Jost 148

Notstandsgesetze (‘emergency laws’) 57, 59, 87

NPD (‘National Party of Germany’) 57

O’Casey, Sean 126

Offenbach, Jürgen 136

Ohnesorg, Benno 19, 33, 87

Ophüls, Max 187

Orff, Karl 33

   Astutuli 33

Orton, Joe 25, 220

Ozon, François

   Water Drops on Burning Rocks 31, 248, 250

Palitzsch, Peter 122, 173

Pasolini, Pier Paulo 3

Patterson, Michael 17, 120

Petersen, Kristin 33

Petri, Roland 189, 197, 213, 215, 216

Peymann, Klaus 188

Pflaum, Hans Günther 77

Pinter Harold

   The Dumb Waiter 96

Piscator, Erwin 15, 16, 18, 120

Ponzi, Mauro 3

Postdramatic theatre 125, 134, 254–5

Postone, Moishe 236

Powell, Michael

   Peeping Tom 170

Praunheim, Rosa von 2

   Für mich gab’s nur noch Fassbinder. Die glücklichen Opfer des Rainer Werner Fassbinder (For Me There Was Only Ever Fassbinder. The Grinning Victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 2, 30

   Rosa Arbeiter auf goldener Strasse (Red Workers on the Streets of Gold) 113

Presley, Elvis 113, 186

Proll, Thorwald 51

Pushkin, Alexander

   The Stone Guest 25

Raab, Kurt 30, 36, 37, 39, 76, 77, 80, 82, 83, 84, 92, 113, 115, 121, 160, 162, 170, 191, 196, 201, 210, 211, 213, 215, 234

   directs Die Verbrecher in Frankfurt 205–7

Raben, Peer 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 50, 52, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81–4, 89, 93, 99, 113, 114, 117, 118, 153, 160, 183, 189, 216, 225, 226

   co-directs Blut 153–6

   co-directs Das Kaffeehaus 133–5

   directs Das brennende Dorf 140, 143–5

   directs Hilferufe 94

   directs Iphigenie in Frankfurt 207–8

   directs Petra 160–2, 256

   directs Preparadise 102, 103, 105, 107, 108

Wilhelm Rabenbauer (see Peer Raben)

Rachmanism 228

Ralinofsky, Dagmar 104–5

Ramseger, Georg 29

Reagan, Ronald 239

Red Army Faction, see Baader-Meinhof group

Regietheater (‘Directors’ Theatre’)

Reible, Dieter 208, 215

Reichel, Horst A. 20, 84

Reichel, Verena 92

Reutzel, Erwin 23

Riebranz, Johannes 89

Rischbieter, Henning 37

Roberg, Dietmar 213

   Martha, die letzte Wandertaube (Martha, the Last Wandering Dove) 201

Roberts, David 62

Rodgers, Richard and Hammerstein, Oscar

   Carousel 182

The Rolling Stones 35, 82

Rühle, Günther 15, 37, 124, 125, 171, 194, 213, 214, 240, 241, 242, 243

Runge, Erika

   Bottroper Protokolle 88

Sabelus, Annette 43, 147

Sagerer, Alexei 21

Saussure, Ferdinand de 37

Savary, Jérôme 224

Schalla, Hans 180

Schauspiel Frankfurt 173, 188, 190, 192–5, 226, 240–4, 254, 261

Schauspielhaus Bochum 170, 180–7, 188, 255

Schenk, Irmbert 72

Schiller, Friedrich von

   Don Carlos 113, 114

   Die Räuber (The Robbers) 120

   Wilhelm Tell 120

Schlöndorff, Volker 191

   Baal 114

Schmid, Daniel

   Schatten der Engel (The Angels’ Shadows) 230

Schmidt, Dietmar N. 155

Schmidt, Jürgen 169

Schmitt, Jörg 25, 27, 52, 54, 55, 59, 75, 76, 81

   co-directs Mockinpott with Fassbinder 79–7

Schwerdtner, Walter 88

Schygulla, Hanna 28, 29, 31, 32, 46, 76, 77, 78, 99, 100, 105, 107, 113, 121, 132, 181, 183, 187

SDS (‘League of German Socialist Students’) 19, 21, 54, 59, 67

Seibel, Wolfgang 104

Seibert, Peter 136, 256

Sellner, Gustav 121

Seybold, Eberhard 211

Shakespeare, William 3, 191

   Hamlet 37

   Macbeth 81

   Measure for Measure 123, 190

Shakespeare, William

   The Merchant of Venice 182, 231

   A Midsummer Night’s Dream 113

   Othello 172, 187

   A Winter’s Tale 187

Shattuc, Jane 6, 58

Shearer, Norma 218

Sichtermann, Barbara 175–7

Simon, Heide 191, 201, 228

Sinter, Gidy 175

Sirk, Douglas 156, 157, 191

Smith, David, see Fassbinder, Preparadise Sorry Now

Söhnlein, Horst 22, 27, 36, 39, 45, 46, 53, 75, 92

   and Frankfurt arson attacks 51

Sophocles 64, 93–4

   Ajax 92

   Antigone 6, 30, 32, 35, 36, 37, 41

     production at the action-theater 27–7, 67, 95

Squat Theatre 222

Staatstheater/Stadttheater 13, 20, 26, 85, 108, 111, 122, 135, 136, 145, 147, 174, 179, 180, 183, 188, 191, 193, 195, 208, 251, 255, 262

   ability to assimilate competition 127

   appeal of S to Fassbinder 126–7

   description of the system 12–8

   role of politicians 13, 238–9

   theatre-building boom 13–5, 134, 139, 178, 194

Steinweg, Rainer 73

Steiof, A. Christian 193

Stern, Frank 233

Stöckl, Ula 202–3

Strätz, Ursula 22, 25, 27, 30, 32, 33, 36, 45, 75, 77, 84, 114, 160, 207

   Lulluhh 114

Straub, Jean-Marie 46, 47

   Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter (The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp) 47

Strauss, Franz Josef 111

Strauss, Botho 162

Strindberg, August

   Miss Julie 191

     production in Frankfurt 201–5, 209

Stubbendorff, Dietrich 134

Sturm und Drang (‘storm and stress’) movement 86

Suhrkamp Verlag 45, 46, 237

Szabó, István 14

Tank, Kurt Lothar 221

Teufel, Fritz 67, 88

Theater am Turm (TAT), Frankfurt 9, 10, 66, 85, 113, 166, 170, 173, 174, 176, 188–92, 195–9

   Ich will nichts als leben wie ein starker Baum (I Only Want to Live Strong Like a Tree)

   and Mitbestimmung, see M at the TAT

   problems with theatre for children 201, 209

Theater der freien Volksbühne, West Berlin 170

Thieringer, Thomas 223

Thimm, Karin 24, 29, 35, 91

   name used in Petra 157

Thomas, R. Hinton 62, 66

Thomasius, Jutta W. 197, 199

Thomsen, Christian Braad 3, 141, 223

Tietjen, Heinz 18

Töteberg, Michael 5, 50, 54, 86, 96, 100, 102, 104, 156, 246

Ungerer, Lilith 77, 115

Utzenrath, Hansjörg 176, 217

Vasil, Paul

   Tonys Freunde (Tony’s Friends) 54

Vega, Lope de 64

   Fuente Ovejuna 140

Verdi, Giuseppe

   Nabucco 82

   Sicilian Vespers 178

Verlag der Autoren 172, 238, 245, 257

   and the Kammerspiele Boycott 179–80

Vian, Boris

   Chung 59–1, 106

   definition 17

Wagner, Eberhard 191, 209, 228

Wagner, Klaus 221

Wagner, Wieland 18

Wallmann, Walter 238, 241

Watson, Wallace Steadman 3, 71, 85, 226

Wedekind, Frank

   The Lulu plays 114, 214

   Musik 227

Wefelmeyer, Fritz 231–2

Weigel, Sigrid 235

Weiss, Peter 58

   Die Ermittlung (The Investigation) 16

   Viet Nam Diskurs 19

   Wie dem Herrn Mockinpott das Leiden ausgetrieben wird (How Suffering Was Driven Out of Mr Mockinpott) 79–3, 99, 101, 105, 108, 113, 115, 116

   description of 91

Zadek, Peter 27, 122–3, 124, 125, 126, 187, 190, 231

   directs Kleiner Mann 186–7

   relationship with F after Bochum 187

   at the Schauspielhaus Bochum 180–3, 186

   and Volkstheater 180–1, 190

Zimmermann, Herbert 82

Zinner-Studio 22, 27

Zola, Emile

   Germinal 190

     dramatization in Frankfurt 197–201

Zöttl, Harry, see Harry Baer

Zürn, Unica 5

Zwerenz, Gerhard 226, 230, 235

   Die Erde ist unbewohnbar wie der Mond 231





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