Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen

“Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar Series No. 8 – Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production

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Lecture Content To introduce the production background of Hometown To describe the production process and market promotion To discuss the advantage and challenges for college theater productions   Short Bio Gao Ziwen: associate professor at Nanjing University, head of the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts, and deputy dean of the School of Liberal […]

Einladung zur Online-Veranstaltung – Chinesisches Frühlingsfest

Liebe Alle, wir laden Sie herzlich zum diesjährigen Frühlingsfest ganz herzlich ein! Lassen Sie uns das Jahr des Tigers gebührend begrüßen.   Online: Youtube-Chinese Goettingen Bilibili- https://live.bilibili.com/24158460?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0

Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar Series No. 9 – Comedies in contemporary Chinese theatre – a sudden boom

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Content: Sabine Heymann in conversation with Anna Stecher about her new book „Die Konjunktur her Komödie im China der Gegenwart“ (The boom of comedies in contemporary China) -  which presents six current successful comedies from China in German translation. Chinese theatre is not famous for comedies. As far as we know, up to now no […]

“Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar Series No. 10 – Performing the Socialist State

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Content The lecture offers a quick overview of Xiaomei Chen’s forthcoming book, Performing the Socialist State: Moments, Crisis and Success of Modern Chinese Theater (Columbia University Press, 2022). It begins with the theatrical achievements of Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian, three founders of spoken drama, and ask how their legacies in the Republican period played important […]

“Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar series No. 12

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Writing a Play Script and Teaching How to Write One Content: Can we “learn” how to write a play? What are the pros and cons of playwriting “apprenticeships”? Can we “teach” how to write a play? Is teaching playwriting equivalent to play diagnosis? What is dramaturgy in the opinion of a playwright? How did I […]