Quiz 7 Flashcards

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Bertolt Brecht married

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Helene Weigel

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Helene Weigel was hired as

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dramaturg at Max Reinhardt’s Deutsches theatre

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3
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Bertolt Brecht wrote ______ with _______(1928)

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The Threepenny Opera

Kurt Weill

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4
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Bertolt Brecht wrote _______ in ____(1938)

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The life of Galileo

Zurich

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5
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Bertolt Brecht wrote_______ and produced at ____(1939)

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Mother Courage and Her Children

Berlin

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Bertolt Brecht wrote ______ and produced in _____(1940)

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The Good Person of Setzuan

Zurich

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7
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Bertolt Brecht wrote ______(1943)

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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8
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Verfremdungseffekt means

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Alienating effect

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9
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In 1949 ______ founded in East Berlin. Artistic director __________

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Berliner Ensemble

Helene Weigel

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10
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In 1954 Brecht revision of his theory

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“Epic theatre” = Dialectic theatre

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11
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Peter Zadek intendant of

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Bochum Schauspielhaus theatre

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12
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Claus Peymann used

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sensuous elements in production

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13
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Claus Peymann was intendant of

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Berliner Ensemble

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14
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Peter Weiss wrote (1964)

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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de sade

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15
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Berliner ensemble and german dramatist

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Heiner Muller

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16
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Odon Von Horvath is

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Hungarian Playwright

17
Q

Ferenc Molnar is ______ and wrote

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Hungarian Playwright

Liliom(1909)

18
Q

Arpad Goncz was

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beloved “Uncle Arpad”

19
Q

Yordan Radichkov wrote

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Lazarus Up a Tree(19xx)

20
Q

Stanislav Stratiev wrote

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The Bus Ride(1980)

21
Q

Matei Visniec is ____ and wrote _________(1990s)

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Romanian playwright

The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War

22
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Bertolt Brecht did

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Poems, Memoirs and theory

23
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Bertolt Brecht was born in

24
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Bertolt Brecht influenced by

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Karl Marx did
Dialect plays
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Epic theatre 1) against
Aristotelian theatre which makes the spectator a passive observer
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Epic theatre 2) Use of
storyteller or narrator brings a point of view and allows freedom of place and time
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Epic theatre 3) goal
stirring up thought or inciting action in the audience
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Epic theatre 4)Build up
cumulative effect of scenes rather than strain to a dramatic climax
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Epic theatre 5) use
episodes and interrupted action to Jar the spectator into thinking
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Verfremdungseffekt is
Estranoement/Alienation/distanciation of the audience from the event on stage to give them objectivity
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Example of Verfremdungseffekt
breaking character, songs placards.
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Peter Stein
violent stage imagery & elaborate production values
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Ferenc Molnar did
popular comedies of high life in pre WWII budapest
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Yordan Radichkov nominated
Nobel prize