Transcultural Theater

Günther Heeg is Director of the Centre of Competence for Theater, Leipzig University, Germany.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Idea of Transcultural Theater Chapter 1. In BecomingBeyond Our GraspTheory, Experience, Idea Theater-thinking Writing Transcultural Theater Brecht and Transcultural TheaterChapter 2. The Topicality of Transcultural Theater Time for Theater Historical Constellation: Globalization and FundamentalismChapter 3. Theatrical Imaginings Globalization’s Theater of Images: The Situation Room The Phantasmic Theater of Fundamentalism: PEGIDAChapter 4. Strangeness as the Site of Transcultural TheaterThe Fascination with Faraway Strangeness: Artaud and Balinese Theater Critique of Intercultural Theater Reciprocal Exposure and the Appropriation of Cultural Traditions Discovering Strangeness in Ownness The Precarious Status of the MigrantChapter 5. Transit Existence Turning Toward History: Reflecting Historically upon Cultural History The Raft of the Medusa Ghosts in Transit: Frank Castorf’s Dämonen Brecht’s Migrant WritingPart II: The World Space of Transcultural TheaterChapter 6. The Theater of Becoming-World Globalization and mondialisation The Absence of Ground: The Groundless Motion of Transcultural Theater "Theater can be the ship itself." Schiller: Seestücke [Sea Plays] At the Back of GlobalizationChapter 7. The Ptolemaic Theater of the WorldThe Theology of the Ptolemaic Theater of the World The Copernican Revolution Chapter 8. The Theater of World ExperienceWorld Experience as Theater Experience: Fatzer 2 Experiencing the World of Things: The Primacy of the Object and the Narcissistic Wound Experiencing the World Transmedially: Situation Rooms Experiencing the World in a Historical Echo ChamberPart III: The Practice of Transcultural TheaterChapter 9. The Turn to HistoryThe Twofold Invocation of History History as the Theater of RepetitionChapter 10. The Rise and Fall of the Phantasm of National CultureThe Story of Origin of National Culture The Symbolic Space and Body of the National Theater The Spectral Return of the Past Demolishing the Mausoleums of National CultureChapter 11. Repetition as the Action of Transcultural TheaterThe Scene of Repetition: Brecht Repetition and Border-crossing: Wolfram Höll’s Und dann The Space-time of Repetition: Søren Kierkegaard’s RepetitionTheater of Repetition: Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Life & TimesChapter 12. Revolution in the Caribbean: The Practice of Transcultural InflectionChapter 13. The Gesture as the Actor of Transcultural Theater The Gesture’s Movement between Times and Spaces The Pathos of the Gesture between Life and Death The Futurity of the Gesture: Franz Kafka’s Nature Theater of Oklahoma Chapter 14. Transcultural Theater as a Powerhouse of EmotionThe Power of EmotionsSeparating, Dividing, AffectThe Stage of Transcultural Opening Index