Erwin Piscator
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 Desember 1893 – 30 Maret 1966) adalah seorang pengarah dan produser teater Jerman. Bersama dengan Bertolt Brecht, ia menjadi pakar terdepan teater epik, sebuah bentuk yang memajukan unsur sosio-politik dari drama, alih-alih manipulasi emosional penonton atau keindahan produksi.[2]
| Erwin Piscator | |
|---|---|
 Potret Piscator, ca 1927 | |
| Lahir | Erwin Friedrich Max Piscator 17 Desember 1893 Greifenstein-Ulm, Kekaisaran Jerman |
| Meninggal | 30 Maret 1966 (umur 72) Starnberg, Jerman Barat |
| Pendidikan | |
| Pekerjaan | Pengarah teater, produser |
| Dikenal atas | Mendirikan Dramatic Workshop di The New School for Social Research (1940). |
| Karya terkenal | The Political Theatre (1929) |
| Gaya | Teater epik, teater dokumenter |
| Suami/istri | Hildegard Jurczyk (m. 1919)[1] Maria Ley (m. 1937) |
| Pasangan | Bertolt Brecht |
| Kerabat | Johannes Piscator |
| Tanda tangan | |
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Karya
- Piscator, Erwin. 1929. The Political Theatre. A History 1914–1929. Translated by Hugh Rorrison. New York: Avon, 1978. ISBN 978-0-380401-88-8 (= London: Methuen, 1980. ISBN 978-0-413335-00-5).
- The ReGroup Theatre Company (ed.): The "Lost" Group Theatre Plays. Volume 3. The House of Connelly, Johnny Johnson, & Case of Clyde Griffiths. By Paul Green and Erwin Piscator. Prefaces by Judith Malina & William Ivey Long. New York, NY: CreateSpace, 2013. ISBN 978-1-484150-13-9.
- Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Adapted for the Stage by Alfred Neumann, Erwin Piscator, and Guntram Prüfer. English adaptation by Robert David MacDonald. Preface by Bamber Gascoigne. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1963.
Kesusastraan
- Connelly, Stacey Jones. Forgotten debts: Erwin Piscator and the epic theatre. Bloomington: Indiana University 1991.
- Innes, Christopher D. Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre: the Development of Modern German Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1972.
- Ley-Piscator, Maria. The Piscator Experiment. The Political Theatre. New York: James H. Heineman 1967. ISBN 0-8093-0458-9.
- Malina, Judith. The Piscator Notebook. London: Routledge Chapman & Hall 2012. ISBN 0-415-60073-1.
- McAlpine, Sheila. Visual Aids in the Productions of the First Piscator-Bühne, 1927–28. Frankfurt, Bern, New York etc.: Lang 1990.
- Probst, Gerhard F. Erwin Piscator and the American Theatre. New York, San Francisco, Bern etc. 1991.
- Rorrison, Hugh. Erwin Piscator: Politics on the Stage in the Weimar Republic. Cambridge, Alexandria VA 1987.
- Wannemacher, Klaus. Moving Theatre Back to the Spotlight: Erwin Piscator’s Later Stage Work. In: The Great European Stage Directors. Vol. 2. Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht. Ed. by David Barnett. London etc.: Bloomsbury (Methuen Drama) 2018, pp. 91–129. ISBN 1-474-25411-X.
- Willett, John. The Theatre of Erwin Piscator: Half a Century of Politics in the Theatre. London: Methuen 1978. ISBN 0-413-37810-1.
Pranala luar
- Erwin Piscator di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- Website on Erwin Piscator, including "Annotated Erwin Piscator Bibliography" with more than 1300 title entries (German)
- Erwin Piscator Papers, 1930–1971 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center
- Information on the annual Erwin Piscator Award
- (Inggris) Photo of Piscator di Find a Grave
Referensi
- ^ erwin-piscator.de (dalam bahasa Jerman)
- ^ Piscator, Erwin. Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge, volume 15, copyright 1991. Grolier Inc., ISBN 0-7172-5300-7