Publications:
ÒPostmodern Drama
Post-9/11: Adriano ShaplinÕs Pugilist Specialist and David HareÕs Stuff Happens.Ó Drama and/after Postmodernism. (Contemporary
Drama in English 14.) Ed. Christoph Henke and Martin Middeke. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher
Verlag, 2007. (Forthcoming.)
ÒRichard Maxwells postdramatiske teater (= Richard
MaxwellÕs Postdramatic Theatre).Ó Norsk ShakespeareÑog teatertidsskrift (Oslo) 1/2006: 29-33. (For the
original English text, click
here.)
Review of Neil BlackadderÕs Performing Opposition:
Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience and Klaus WannemacherÕs Erwin Piscators
Theater gegen das Schweigen: Politisches Theater zwischen den Fronten des
Kalten Krieges (1951-1966). The Brecht Yearbook 31 (2006): 375-377.
Review of Ingjerd Ho‘mÕs Theatre and
Political Process: Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand. The
Contemporary Pacific 18.2 (2006): 471-473.
ÒCulture
of Fear: Uncomfortable Transactions between Performance and Terrorism,Ó in International Journal of the Humanities 3.3 (2006): 217-228.
ÒBeyond His Plays: BrechtÕs Relevance for American
Theatre,Ó in Communications (International Brecht Society), Vol. 34, June 2005,
59-60.
ÒContemporary Drama in HawaiÕi: Representations of
Displacement and Diaspora in Edward SakamotoÕs Obake and Victoria Nalani KneubuhlÕs Ola
Na Iwi,Ó in Staging
Displacement, Exile, and Diaspora. (Contemporary Drama in English 12.) Ed. Anja
MŸller-Muth and Christoph Houswitschka. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier,
2005, 95-110.
ÒTheatre as an Allegory of Unreadability: The Wooster
GroupÕs The Road to Immortality Part Three: Frank DellÕs The Temptation of Saint
Antony,Ó in The
Wooster Group and Its Traditions. Ed. Johan Callens. Brussels: Peter Lang/Presses
Interuniversitaires EuropŽennes (Series: ÒDramaturgies: Texts, Cultures, and
PerformancesÓ), 2004, 129-140.
ÒMahagonny and the Tourist Gaze,Ó in The Brecht
Yearbook 29.
Published by the International Brecht Society. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2004, 84-96.
Review of Martin PuchnerÕs Stage Fright: Modernism,
Anti-Theatricality, and Drama, in The Brecht Yearbook 29. Published by the International
Brecht Society. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, 427-430.
ÒThe (Un)Settled Space of Richard MaxwellÕs House,Ó in Modern Drama 44:4 (2001), 437-457.
ÒÕIÕll
Shine in the Back Yard. Bright Like a Beacon.Õ Introduction.Ó Barking
Dogs. By Norman
Price. Brisbane: Playlab, 2002.
ÒEin Gespenst geht um in Foremans Theater Ð ÔJetzt, da
der Kommunismus tot istÕ (= A Spectre Haunts ForemanÕs TheatreÑÔNow That
Communism Is DeadÕ),Ó essay for Vienna Festival 2001 publication.
"Im Dickicht der VorstŠdte: Richard Maxwells House und Showy Lady Slipper (= In the Jungle of the
Suburbs: Richard Maxwell's House and Showy Lady Slipper)," essay for Vienna
Festival 2000 publication.
"Theater auf der
Hšhe der Medientechnik (= Theatre at the Height of Media Technology),"
in Medieninszenierungen im Wandel. InterdisziplinŠre ZugŠnge. Ed. RŸdiger Ontrup and
Christian Schicha. MŸnster: LIT, 1999, 38-49.
"Richard Maxwell, Hausmeister und Pausenwart (=
Richard Maxwell, Super and Supervisor)," in Theater der Welt 1999 in
Berlin. Arbeitsbuch.
Ed. Joachim Fiebach. Berlin: Theater der Zeit/International Theatre Institut,
1999, 136-7.
"Richard
Foreman's Hotel Fuck: Theatre at the
Turn of the Century. An Interview by Markus Wessendorf," in Theater
der Welt 1999 in Berlin. Arbeitsbuch, 138-144.
"'I'm Happy, You're Happy.' Richard Foremans Hotel
Fuck," in Theater
der Zeit,
March/April 1999, 54f.
Die BŸhne als Szene des Denkens: Richard Foremans
Ontological-Hysteric Theatre (= The Stage as a Scene of Thinking: Richard
Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre). Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 1998, 311 pp.
Gabriele Brandstetter, Helga Finter, Markus Wessendorf
(Eds.): GrenzgŠnge: Theater und die anderen KŸnste (= Crossing Boundaries:
Theatre and the Other Arts). TŸbingen: Narr, 1998, 393 pp.
"Selbstorganisation und InteraktivitŠt in
Performance (=
Self-Organization and Interactivity in Performance)," in GrenzgŠnge, 1998, 135-143.
"Richard Foreman's Theatrical Deconstruction of the
Neo-Ritualistic Theatre of the Sixties," in Anthropological
Perspectives.
(Contemporary Drama in English 5.) Ed. Werner Huber and Martin Middeke. Trier:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1998, 121-129.
"Rezension von Patrice Pavis' The Intercultural
Performance Reader
(= Review of Patrice Pavis' The Intercultural Performance Reader)," in Forum Modernes
Theater, no.
2/98, vol. 13, 207-210.
"Ein Konzert findet statt. Klangkonzepte in
deutschen Performances der Gegenwart (= A Concert Happens. Sound Concepts in
Contemporary German Performance)," in Kaleidoskopien. Vol. 2: Surround. Ed. by the Theatre Department
at Leipzig University. Summer 1997, 75-85.
"Szenen aus einem rauhen Leben. Die masochistische
Performance-€sthetik des Ron Athey (= Scenes in a Harsh Life. The Masochistic
Performance Aesthetics of Ron Athey)," in Theater der Zeit, January/February 1996, no. 1,
22-25.
"Mystische Shows auf dem Theater: GrundzŸge der
neueren Theaterarbeit von Richard Foreman (= Mystical Shows on Stage: Basic
Elements of the Later Theatre Work of Richard Foreman)," in Forum
Modernes Theater,
no. 2/93, vol. 8, 181-187.
"Der implizite Medienbegriff in Bertolt Brechts
LehrstŸck Die Ma§nahme (= The Implicit Media Theory of Bertolt Brecht's Learning Play The
Measures Taken),"
in Zeitschrift fŸr Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, no. 22/1992, vol. 85, 150-158.
Research assistantship on Daniel Gerould's The
Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, New York: Blast Books, 1992.
Die €sthetik der Wooster Group. Dekonstruktion als
theatrale Praxis (=
The Aesthetics of The Wooster Group. Deconstruction as Theatrical Practice). Thesis. Giessen: Department
of Applied Theatre Studies, 1991, 131 pp.
Unpublished
Manuscripts:
"Some Observations on the Impact of Globalization
on the Performing Arts," presented at the Fall 2002 Speakers Series of the
International Cultural Studies Certificate Program at the University of HawaiÔi
at Manoa. Unpublished manuscript, 18 pp.
"The Uncanny in August Strindberg's Chamber
Plays," a paper I presented at the Second Annual Strindberg Symposium at Marymount Manhattan College
in January 2000. Unpublished manuscript, 11
pp.
"A
Short History of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre," a
paper I presented at the Copenhagen symposium on Richard Foreman's theatre work
in September 1999. Unpublished manuscript, pp 11.
"Ein
kurzer Abri§ der austral-asiatischen Performance (= A brief outline of
Austral-Asian performance),Ó a paper I presented at the Berlin conference
of the German Society of Theatre Studies in November 1998. Unpublished manuscript, 13 pp.
"Kabbalah
and Gnosticism in Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre," a
paper I presented at the Tel Aviv conference of the International
Federation of Theatre Research in June 1996. Unpublished manuscript, 10 pp.
"Bodies
in Pain: Towards a Masochistic Perception of PerformanceÑthe Work of Ron Athey
and Bob Flanagan," a paper I presented at the Montreal conference of
the International Federation of Theatre Research in May 1995. Unpublished
manuscript, 10 pp.