Spielraum: Teaching German through Theater

✍ Scribed by Lisa Parkes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Spielraum: Teaching German through Theater is a sourcebook and guide for teaching German language and culture, as well as social, cross-cultural, and multi-ethnic tensions, through dramatic texts. This book presents a range of theoretical and practical resources for the growing number of teachers who wish to integrate drama and theater into their foreign-language curriculum. As such, it may be adopted as a flexible tool for teachers seeking ways to reinvigorate their language classrooms through drama pedagogy; to connect language study to the study of literature and culture; to inspire curricular rejuvenation; or to embark on full-scale theater productions.

Focusing on specific dramatic works from the rich German-speaking tradition, each chapter introduces unique approaches to a play, theme, and genre, while also taking into account practical issues of performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Endorsements
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Vorspiel: prelude
Einbildung and Ausbildung: a renewed case for integrating drama in the foreign-language classroom
Spielraum
Performative learning and teaching
Structure and goals of Spielraum
Notes on student and teacher performance anxiety
Notes
References
1. Schauspiel: teaching German through gestures
Introduction
Some important factors to consider
Vorhang auf!
Pre-verbal exercises
Spiegelspiel [all levels]
Dirigentenspiel [all levels]
Marionetten und Maskenfreiheit
Marionetten [all levels]
Maskenfreiheit [all levels]
Walking in character [all levels]
Improvisation: from non-verbal to verbal
Regieanweisungen [all levels]:
Improvisation: from non-verbal to verbal
Die Straßenszene [all levels]
Straßenszene-Variation [all levels]; adapted from Brecht and Spolin
Beobachtungen [all levels]
Sprech- und Wortspiel
Bühnenflüstern
Aussprachespiel [all levels]
Steigerung der Intensität [all levels]
Subtext [intermediate to advanced]
Regeln für Schauspieler: Aussprache, Rezitation, Deklamation [advanced]
Stegreifspiel
Konflikt! [intermediate to advanced]
Dramatic interactions with the text
Hot-Seating [intermediate to advanced]
Scene-by-scene interrogations
Verfremdungsspiele [advanced]
Schauspieltheorien im Vergleich
Schreibaufgaben
Creative writing
Analytical task
Production preparations
Scene visualization
Director's cut
Notes
Further reading and resourcesOn acting
On process-drama exercises in the German-language classroom
On process-drama exercises in the language classroom
On full theater productions
On German pronunciation
References
2. Trauerspiel: teaching tragedy
Key considerations
Introduction
In and outside history: Tragödie and Trauerspiel
Trümmertragödie: tragedy in ruins
Introduction and pre-reading explorations
Embodying the Heimkehrer
Trümmerliteratur
Draußen vor der Tür
Ein Stück, das kein theater spielen will, und keinPublikum sehen will
Leitfragen: Vorspiel and Traum
Workshop: Vorspiel and Traum
Leitfragen: Szenen 1-4
Workshops: Szenen 1-4
Szene 5
Reflective writing exercises
Notes
On German tragedy theory
On German tragedy and the Trauerspiel
Recordings
References
3. Lustspiel: teaching comedy
Outline placeholder
Key considerations
CH003mk:H2_3
Introduction
Preliminary definitions: what is funny about comedy?
Day 3: exploring comedic mechanisms in Valentin's Der Theaterbesuch
CH003mk:H2_7
Leitfragen
CH003mk:H3_9
CH003mk:H3_10
CH003mk:H3_11
CH003mk:H3_12
CH003mk:H3_13
CH003mk:H3_14
CH003mk:H2_15
Interlude
Approaching Ödön von Horváth's Hin und her
Demaskierung des Unbewusstseins: Hin und her
CH003mk:H2_19
Leitfragen: Teil I
CH003mk:H3_21
CH003mk:H3_22
CH003mk:H3_23
Leitfragen: Teil II
Ende gut, alles gut?
Lessons of comedy
Aus dem Stegreif
Notes
Further resources and reading
On comedy theory in German
CH003mk:H2_31
CH003mk:H2_32
On Ödön von Horváth
On Karl Valentin
On Loriot
References
Appendix B Drama workshops
4. Zwischenspiel: teaching tragicomedy
Introduction
Der goldene Drache as Zwischenspiel
Modern society as a Zwischenspiel
Discerning the tragicomic: pre-reading exercises
Staging the tragicomic: Drama workshops
Leitfragen
Creative writing exercises
Improvisation
Reflective writing exercises
Post-performance reflection paper
Vocabulary
Notes
References
5. Sprachspiel: teaching Kabarett
Introduction
Toying with the audience
Zum großen Wurstel as Kabarett
Towards the post-human
Marionette workshops
The robotic body
Yvan Goll's Kino der Menschlichkeit: Die Chapliniade
Performing the post-human
From Schauspiel to Sprachspiel
Erika Mann: "Hans im Glück"
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"
"Surabaya-Johnny" I and II
Notes
Further reading and resources
On puppets and acting
On the history of Kabarett
Anthologies of Kabarett approaches to teaching Kabarett
Recordings
On Charlie Chaplin's reception in Germany
References
6. Hörspiel: teaching radio plays
Introduction
Tun ist besser als fühlen
Tuning into the Hörspiel
Visualizing acoustics
Comprehension checks
Filling the silence
Sonic storytelling
Critical framing and creative adaptation
Sounding out the Hörspiel
Mariana Leky: Der Aufzug
Fine tuning
The interactive Hörspiel
Note
Further reading and resources
Recordings of Hörspiel
Current Hörspiel broadcasting and resources
On the history of the German-language Hörspiel
On radio theory
References
7. Endspiel: teaching contemporary transcultural and post-migrant theater
Introduction
Ius Sanguinis / Verrücktes Blut
Embodied interrogation
Day 2: Verrücktes Blut, Prologue (2-11)
Excerpt 1
Improvisation
Approaching the songs
Akt II
Excerpt 2
Akt II, Szene 3-4
Excerpt 3
From colorblind casting to a post-ethnic vision
Post-performance reflections
Notes
References
Appendix A Approaching the folksongs
Index