Embodied Memory: The Theatre of George Tabori (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture) - Hardcover

Feinberg, Anat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877456860 ISBN 13: 9780877456865

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 1999

Synopsis

Making use of invaluable archival material, Feinberg's biographical account is followed by a study of Tabori's experimental theatre work. As did prominent avant-gardists such as Grotowski or Chaikin, Tabori sought to open up new vistas in an otherwise mainstream theatre system. Feinberg pays special attention to Tabori's theatrical innovations, most movingly found in his Holocaust plays. There Feinberg shows the ways in which Tabori's theatre becomes a locus of remembrance (Gedächtnisort) and of unique, engaging memory-work (Erinnerungsarbeit).

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About the Author

Anat Feinberg is a novelist and professor of Hebrew and Jewish literature at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Germany. She has studied and taught theatre history in the United Kingdom and in Israel.

Reviews

George Tabori had a notable influence on modern German theater. A Jew born in Budapest in 1914, he spent his formative years in Hollywood and New York, where he did not have much success. (His most famous work from this period was his collage, Brecht on Brecht.) Achievement came with his return to Germany in 1969. Beginning with a biographical sketch and a review of Tabori's theatrical methodology and theories, Feinberg (Hebrew and Jewish lit., University for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg, Germany) surveys his work for the German stage as actor, director, and writer, his Shakespeare productions, and, most significantly, his Holocaust plays--The Cannibals, My Mother's Courage, and Mein Kampf. Though not himself a survivor, Tabori lost some of his immediate family to the camps, and his plays call for a catharsis through memory of all who lived through and after the Holocaust. We need an anthology of these plays soon. Recommended for academic libraries, especially those with special collections in theater.
-Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., MA
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Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877456860
• ISBN 13: 9780877456865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384