Beschreibung
The study at hand discusses comprehensively a range of poetical, ethical and political questions involved in the staging of Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Dramas [Prinzessinnendramen] as the Austrian Nobel Prize for Literature winner's first work on the Australian stage. Introducing the 'poetic of an arriving artist' as a productive approach to staging Jelinek's plays internationally, the author of this study, and director of the production, consequently scrutinises this poetic's grounding in a poststructural reconception of the 'palimpsest' as a dramaturgical figure of thought. He points to the danger of unintentionally causing disempowering effects through emancipatory strategies of empowerment and eventually comes up with a series of timely proposals for effective and responsible artistic activity in 21st century immigration societies of an ever-globalising world. Engaging with Jelinek's mythoclastic work serves thus as a highly relevant springboard for giving new impulses to current debates on artistic freedom, political correctness, diasporic art production and Australian discourses of indigeneity.
Autorenportrait
ANDRÉ BASTIAN studied Performance Studies and Spanish Philology in Melbourne (Australia) and Granada (Spain). He is a theatre practitioner (director, dramaturge, author, translator) and theorist and earned his doctorate at Monash University in Melbourne (Australia).
