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Fashion pictures Maria Ley-Piscator *1898-14.10.1999+ Dancer, Austria second wife of (German stage director) Erwin Piscator - 1921 - Photographer: Franz Loewy - Published by: 'Die Dame' 6/1921 Vintage property of ullstein bild
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Sep 27, 2023 · German theatre director Erwin Piscator (1893-1966) may not have been the first person to use projected images or film in stage plays, but he was certainly a pioneer in this area and one of the first to do so successfully. All this makes perfect sense when we consider Piscator was the dominant theatre director in Berlin in the 1920s.
Erwin Piscator (born December 17, 1893, Ulm, Germany—died March 30, 1966, Starnberg, West Germany) was a theatrical producer and director famed for his ingenious Expressionistic staging techniques. He was the originator of the epic theatre style later developed by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Having studied at the König school of ...
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Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht , he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre , a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty .
The influence of Piscator. The great German theatrical director Erwin Piscator trained as an actor and began his professional career during World War I, running an entertainment theatre for fellow soldiers in Belgium. After the war Piscator set out to create a theatre that had a clear place and function in a world that also contained machine ...
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Mar 4, 2024 · He was the Marxist director Erwin Piscator (1893-1966), who developed expressionist theatre for left-wing ‘agit-prop’ (the word a compound of ‘agitation’ and ‘propaganda’). Working in the early years with Bertolt Brecht, Piscator formulated a plan for a new drama which could be used for the public ‘discussion’ of political and ...
