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This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori's work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies.
Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striving to create a strong empathetic connection between the audience and Holocaust victims, or featured an unembellished documentary style. Tabori staked out a third position, beyond realism and documentation. The volume brings together the voices of international scholars to provide a comprehensive introduction to Tabori's theater as well as in-depth analyses of his work, discussing all of his major plays. Individual essays address Tabori's postdramatic theater in relation to sacrificial ritual, performance studies, and post-humanist approaches to the contemporary stage, as well as performance aspects of his productions, questions of ethics and aesthetics raised by his theater, and his plays' relation to Holocaust representation in popular culture.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Martin Kagel
I. Tabori Redux
"Macht kein Theater": George Tabori Revisited
Anat Feinberg
II. Performance
Digesting Tabori: On the Reception of a Jewish Playwright in Italy
Laura Forti
Memory? No! Experience: Sacrificial Ritual in George Tabori's Theatre
Alice Le Trionnaire-Bolterauer
Performance Illuminations: George Tabori and the Bildraum of the Shoah
Klaus van den Berg
III. Ethics and Aesthetics
Parsing the Jewish Question: Ethical Witnessing, Tabori, and the Theatrical
Representation of the Holocaust
Rebecca Rovit
From Tragedy to Farce: Tropes of Reappearance on the Stages of History
and the Theatre
Freddie Rokem
Who's Afraid of Kommissar Rex? Postdramatic Ecology and the Theatre
of the Holocaust in René Pollesch's Cappuccetto Rosso
Jack Davis
IV. Holocaust Representation and Popular Culture
On the Legacy of the Performative Body: George Tabori and Robert Schindel
Johanna Öttl
A Tale of Fruitful Failure: Urs Odermatt's Film Adaptation of George Tabori's
Mein Kampf as a Guide to Five Maxims of Tabori's Holocaust Theatre
Peter Höyng
"Painted Laughter": Cabaret, The People in the Picture, and the Paradox
of Holocaust Musicals
Barbara Wallace Grossman
Contributors
Index
