Strategies of Contemporary Political Theatre in Eastern Europe

这项面向国际的研究项目分析了21世纪初东欧政治戏剧的战略。该项目的出发点是观察到，自新千年的第一个十年以来，政治戏剧在欧洲大部分地区经历了重生和显着变化。与此同时，在社会政治化中也可以观察到类似的发展。该研究项目的重点是东欧，以及那些在受苏联影响数十年后，在过去25年里经历了彻底的文化和政治转型的国家。之所以选择这一地区，是因为国际戏剧研究人员没有充分考虑到这一点，这是因为人们往往把重点放在西欧。此外，政治戏剧在这一地区的潜力尤其大，因为它经历了巨大的政治动荡，仍然由社会的不确定性决定。研究项目旨在分析和批判性地描述今天S政治戏剧在东欧的表现。其结果不会被认为是某一国家的代表性，而是某一政治戏剧运动的代表性。将考虑到各个民族文化之间在历史和文化上形成的差异。然而，其目的并不是描绘国家剧院的风景，既不是部分，也不是全部。核心和指导性的问题是：当今东欧的当代政治戏剧遵循哪种戏剧、美学和表演策略？将根据东欧各国戏剧制作人表演的案例研究来分析这一问题。绩效分析方法(根据Fischer-Lichte、Pavis等人)将是案例研究的基础。在分析过程中，一方面，将研究个人表演在社会和经济背景下的定位(根据舍伯·勒、Bähr、Jennicke等人的说法)。另一方面，将从跨文化的角度分析不同戏剧传统及其政治潜力之间的相互作用(根据Pavis、Fischer-Lichte等人的观点)。最后，这项研究将检验戏剧制作者的策略是否符合今天S的政治戏剧概念(根据莱曼和其他人的说法)，或者将自己与他们区分开来，或者更确切地说，开启了这个术语的新水平。该项目旨在描述东欧政治戏剧的各种不同方法，并将其定位于欧洲戏剧的格局和传统。通过这种方式，本研究项目想要接近今天S对东欧政治戏剧的理解或理解。

The internationally oriented research project analyses the strategies of political theatre in Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. The project starts from the observation that political theatre has experienced both a rebirth and notable changes in most parts of Europe since the first decade of the new millennium. A similar development can be observed also in a societal politicisation at the same time. The research project focuses on Eastern Europe and with that on those countries which have experienced a radical cultural and political transition in the past 25 years after having been under the influence of the Soviet Union for decades. This region has been chosen because it has not been taken into account enough by international theatre researchers due to a perception that often focuses on Western Europe. Additionally, the potential for political theatre is especially high in this region for it has lived through enormous political upheavals and is still determined by societal uncertainties.The research project aims at analysing and critically describing manifestations of today s political theatre in Eastern Europe. The results will not be regarded as representative for a certain nation but as representative for a certain movement of political theatre. The historically and culturally grown differences between the individual national cultures will be taken into account. Yet the aim is not to depict national theatre landscapes neither in parts nor in its entirety. The central and guiding question is: Which dramaturgic, aesthetic and performative strategies is the contemporary political theatre in Eastern Europe following today? This question will be analysed on the basis of case studies of performances by theatre makers from various countries across Eastern Europe. The methods of the performance analysis (according to Fischer-Lichte, Pavis and others) will be the basis of the case studies. In the course of the analysis, on the one hand, the positioning of the individual performances in the social and economic context will be studied (according to Schößler, Bähr, Jennicke and others). On the other hand, the interplay between different theatre traditions and its political potential will be analysed under the aspect of interculturality (according to Pavis, Fischer-Lichte and others). Finally, the study will examine if the strategies of the theatre makers coincide with today s concepts of political theatre (according to Lehmann and others) or set themselves apart from them or rather open new levels of the term. The project aims at describing a wide spectrum of different approaches to political theatre in Eastern Europe and at locating it in the European theatre landscape and tradition. This way, the research project wants to approach today s understanding or understandings of political theatre in Eastern Europe.