Postdramatic Theatre
by Hans Thies Lehmann
translated by Victor Scoradet
UNITEXT Publishing house - RNTF Colection
Presented by: Hans Thies Lehmann and Victor Scoradet
Hans-Thies Lehmann, author of Postdramatic Theatre, hails from a genuine theoretical tradition, from French post-structuralism to materialist theories of literature and the performing arts. In the 80s he published Contributions to the Materialist Theory of Literature, as well as many essays about authors such as Georges Bataille, Georg Buchner or Heiner Muller. In the 90s he gave lectures and published articles about Bertolt Brecht, whose concepts of epic theatre, script, gestus, etc. fascinated him. Lehmann’s interest in Heiner Muller’s work, a great admirer of Brecht as well as his unforgiving critic, continues to this day, with a book to be published soon about this “German German” author.
Postdramatic Theatre was published in 1999 to great interest, and was soon included in all theater bibliographies and translated into 15 languages. In the introduction, the author says that during this research he was not guided by the need for a detailed “inventory” of the numerous forms and actors, but rather followed “the logic of the aesthetics” of a new theater.
