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Lecture: Theatre Studies – Expanding Dramaturgies

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“The theatre,” said Emile Zola, “does not exist. There are theatres, and I am searching for mine.”

The same can be said about dramaturgy nowadays, particularly in view of a post-dramatic theatre landscape in which the notion of dramaturgy has expanded and still expands in manifold directions.

In collaboration with the University of Helsinki’s open university, LUST rf organises a course in theatre studies during Hangö Teaterträff. The course includes lectures, discussions, and performances. The course is led by professor André Eiermann and goes by the name of Expanding Dramaturgies.

The course looks at the variety of dramaturgies the artists taking part in Hangö Teaterträff 2023 are searching for. The lectures are open for everyone and require no registration. More information on how to sign up for the course itself can be found on the open university’s website.

André Eiermann is a theatre scholar and dramaturge based in Norway. He is professor of theatre at the University of Agder, and currently professor of dramaturgy, theory, and ethics of directing at Oslo National Academy of the Arts – The Academy of Theatre. Eiermann has studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany), and at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (theatre studies) at the University of Bergen (Norway).

He has previously worked as a substitute professor of the theory and history of theatre at Berlin University of the Arts (2015–2016), as substitute professor for theatre studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2010–2011), and as postdoc at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (2009–2010 & 2011–2012), where he also received a PhD in 2008 with the thesis Postspektakuläres Theater – Die Alterität der Aufführung und die Entgrenzung der Künste (2009). In addition, Eiermann has been active as performing artist since 2001, and collaborates since 2013 as dramaturge with various other artists, both in the Norwegian and in the international context.

Lecturer: André Eiermann
Supported by: LUST – långsiktig utveckling av svenskspråkig teater, University of Helsinki