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Theater director, Film director. As a producer in the theatres of Berlin, Erwin Piscator made intensive use of materials. He used large iron structures, projected films or motorised bridges. At the Piscator Stage, the venue he founded in 1927, he also tried to politically activate his audience according to the principle of epic theatre.
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, 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.[2] Erwin Friedrich Max Piscator was born on 17 December ...
Abstract. It is logical to include in a book of this kind an essay on Erwin Piscator, and not merely because he was the author of a book with a similar title— The Political Theatre (1929)—which staked out for the first time the territory of ‘political drama’ as it has been understood and practised throughout the twentieth century. It is ...
Books. The Political Theatre. Erwin Piscator. Eyre Methuen, 1980 - Biography & Autobiography - 373 pages. 'The Political Theatre' is among the most important documents of the modern stage. It tells of the foundation and flowering in Weimar Germany of a new form of theatre - epic theatre - designed to bring on to the stage the real political ...
Oct 29, 2023 · Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the sociopolitical content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience
The technique was used for propaganda in the U.S.S.R. from the time of the Revolution in 1917. It became part of the Epic theatre tradition initiated by Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht in Germany in the 1920s. The Living Newspaper was initiated in the United States in 1935 as part of the Federal Theatre Project.
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17. detsember 1893 Ulm – 30. märts 1966 Starnberg) oli saksa dramaturg, lavastaja ja teatrijuht. Erwin Piscator on tuntud kui poliitilise teatri viljeleja ning dokumentaalteatri žanri looja.
