Papers & Presentations

This is a list of my published academic writing, as well as conference talks, paper presentations, interviews etc. I tried to gather some related links, both within this blog and beyond.

Publications

• CedarBough T. Saeji and Jan Creutzenberg, “Gulsin 굴신 (屈伸)”, in: The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages, edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, and Astrid Schenka, Routledge, 2024. publisher
• Jan Creutzenberg, “P’ansori in Germany: Korean Singing-Storytelling, from Representation of Culture to Creative Collaboration”, in Cross-border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea, edited by Yonson Ahn and Jihye Kim, pp. 101–121, Lexington, 2023. publisher
• Jan Creutzenberg, “The Brecht-brand and German Theatre in South Korea”, Critical Stages 27 (June2023). full text (open access)
• Jan Creutzenberg and Anna Yates-Lu, “Introduction: Korean Traditional Music on Global Stages”, the world of music (new series) 11.1(2022): 5–22. (also co-editor of this issue) journal (TOC & abstracts) JSTOR (full text)
• —, “The P’ansori Experience in Europe: Invitation, Promotion, Commission, and Collaboration”, the world of music (new series) 11.1(2022): 109–132. journal (TOC & abstracts) JSTOR (full text)
• —, “Making Masters, Staging Genealogy: Full-Length P’ansori as an Invented Tradition”, in Invented Traditions in North and South Korea, edited by Andrew David Jackson, Codruța Sîntionean, Remco Breuker, and CedarBough Saeji, pp. 279–303, Univ. of Hawai‘i Press, 2021, DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1hggkdr.16.(JSTOR), 10.1515/9780824890476-014 (DeGruyter). intro video publisher blog with links
• —, “Dreaming of a New Theatre in Cold War South Korea: Yu Chi-jin, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Seoul Drama Center”, Journal of Global Theatre History 3.2 (2019), pp. 34–53, DOI: 10.5282/gthj/5118 (peer-reviewed). full text (open access) PDF blog
• —, “Between Preservation and Change: Performing Arts Heritage Development in South Korea”, Asian Education and Development Studies 8.4 (2019), pp. 485–497, DOI: 10.1108/AEDS-04-2018-0070 (peer-reviewed). full text (subscription) blog
• —, “Im Konzertsaal, auf der Theaterbühne oder auf der Straße: Pansori in Korea heute” (In the Concert Hall, the Theatre Stage, and on the Street: Pansori in Korea Today), in Uri Korea, exhibition catalogue, edited by Susanne Knödel and Bernd Schmelz, Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, 2017, pp. 134–147. exhibition (German) Asia-Europe Museum Network blog
• “‘Deutsch Spielen’ – Eine studentische Produktion von Dea Lohers Theaterstück ‘Diebe’ an der Sungshin University” (“Playing German” – A Student Production of Dea Loher’s Play “Diebe” at Sungshin University), DaF-Szene 44 (May 2017), Lektoren-Vereinigung Korea: 14–19. publisher PDF (open source, complete issue) blog
• —, Chapters on Korea about “Gender Performance and the Rise of Actresses in Modern Asian Theatre” and “Modern Asian Theatre and Indigenous Performance”, in The Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre, ed. Siyuan Liu, Routledge, 2016. publisher, google books, blog
• —, “From Traditional Opera to Modern Music Theatre? Recent Experiments in Ch’anggŭk”, Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch 88 (2013), pp. 87–102. full text (academia.edu), publisher blog1 blog2
• —, “The Good Person of Korea: Lee Jaram’s Sacheon-ga as a Dialogue between Brecht and Pansori”, Brecht Yearbook 36 (2011), Storrs, CT: International Brecht Society, pp. 225–238. full text (PDF) full text (academia.edu) publisher
• —, “To Be or Not to Be (Korean): Lee Youn-taek’s Hamlet and the Reception of Shakespeare in Korea”, Shakespeare Seminar 7 (2009), Weimar: Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft, pp. 21– 38. full text (PDF), blog1, blog2

In Korean

• 이안 코이츤베악, 「독일음악극: 실험 편」, 월간『한국연극』, 2023년 11월호, 66–69.
• —, 「독일음악극: 고전/대중 편」, 월간『한국연극』, 2023년 10월호, 56–58.
• —, 「봄의 연극 축제와 독일어 드라마의 새로운 방향들 (후 편)」, 월간『한국연극』, 2023년 8월호, 60–61.
• —, 「봄의 연극 축제와 독일어 드라마의 새로운 방향들 (전 편)」, 월간『한국연극』, 2023년 7월호, 86–87.
• —, 「「개똥의 공과 사: 독일연극계의 예술가, 비평가 사이의 갈등」, 월간『한국연극』, 2023년 4월호, 60–61.
• —, 「관객의 감소: 독일어권 연극계의 포스트 코로나 방향논의」, 월간『한국연극』, 2023년 2월호, 64–65.
• —,「박물관 아래 공연장: 베를린 훔볼트 포럼에서 본 음악극 ‘Mexico Aura: The Myth of Possession’」, 월간『한국연극』, 2022년 11월호, 77–79.
• —,「시간을 노래하는 연극: 함부르크 탈리아극장 2021/2022년 시즌 후반의 음악극」, 월간『한국연극』, 2022년 9월호: 86–87.
• —,「프랑크푸르트에서 제레미 웨이드의  2인무 “Glory” 보기」, 월간『몸』, 2022년 8월호: 40–41.
• —,「베를린 극장에서 들리는 다양한 목소리들」, 『연극평론』104호 (2022년 봄, 한국연극평론가협회), 165–168. full text (subscription)
• —,「독일 공공극장 시스템과 권력의 문제」, 『연극평론』103호 (2021년 겨울, 한국연극평론가협회), 176–179. full text (subscription)
• —,「해외의 판소리 연구사 – 영어, 독일어, 프랑스어 문헌을 중심으로」,전인평 외,『한국 음악계의 뜨거운 감자』, 서울: 아시아음악학회,  2020, 396–416. blog Aladin
• —,「테아터라움 철학하는 몸 <당신의 만찬>」(리뷰), 월간『한국연극』, 2019년 12월호: 64–65. TOC
• —, 「논쟁으로서의 연극: 유치진, 드라마센터 그리고 공공극장」, 『연극평론』95호 (2019년 겨울, 한국연극평론가협회), 31–35. full text (subscription)

Reviews

• Jan Creutzenberg, “Zehn Leben, nicht nur unter Tage: Im Band Glück auf! kommen koreanische Bergarbeiter in Deutschland zu Wort”, book review of Glück Auf! Lebensgeschichten koreanischer Bergarbeiter in Deutschland (Life Stories of Korean Miners in Germany). ed. by You Jae Lee (Iudicium 2021), DaF-Szene 55 (Dec. 2022), Lektoren-Vereinigung Korea: 91–93. book publisher PDF (open source, complete issue)
• —, Record review of Dongpyeonje Heungboga Pansori Live (Ch’ae Sujŏng P’ansori Tongp’yŏn-je Hŭngbo-ga) by Chae SooJung, Kim JeongMan, Park GeunYoung, Ethnomusicology 63.3 (Fall 2019): 514–517. full text online (JSTOR)
• —, “Beyond Baden-Baden: Part-Time Performers Explain Themselves”, performance review of Brecht’s Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis by Ensemble Theaterraum (테아터라움: 철학하는 몸), ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society, ed. by Jack Davis and Kristopher Imbrigotta (July 2018). full text online
• —, Review of Hyunjung Lee, Performing the Nation in Global Korea: Transnational Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), Theatre Research International 42.2 (July 2017): 198–99. full text online (paywall), publisher
• —, “Hamlet Redux: Two Korean Productions that Re-stage Shakespeare’s Play between Tradition and Today”, double-review of Taroo’s Pansori Hamlet Project and Tuida’s Hamlet Cantabile, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation X.1 (spring/summer 2016), eds. Maurizio Calbi and Stephen O’Neill. full text online, download (pdf)
• —, “Mitbringsel aus einer verblassenden Welt” (Souvenirs of a Fading World), review of Florian Bong-Kil Grosse, Hanguk, photo book, Korea Forum 2015, pp. 72–73. homepage, impressions1, impressions2
• —, Double-review of Yeonok Jang, Korean P’ansori Singing Tradition: Development, Authenticity, and Performance History (Scarecrow Press 2014) and Haekyung Um, Korean Musical Drama: P’ansori and the Making of Tradition in Modernity (Ashgate 2013), Asian Theatre Journal 32.1 (2015) publisher, book1 (Jang), book2 (Um)
• —, “Vergangenheitsbewältigung mit Leerstellen” (Coming to Terms with the Past with Blanks), review of Oh Tae-Suk, Mumiengrab und andere Theaterstücke, German translation by Lee Kyungboon and Kai Köhler (Peperkorn 2013), Korea Forum 2014, pp. 98–100. publisher
• —, “Lee Jarams Erzählung von der Mutter Courage: Pansori zwischen Tradition und Moderne”, performance review of Lee Jaram’s “Brecht-Pansori” Ukchuk-ga (이자람, 판소리 프레히트 억척가), Korea Forum 2012, pp. 87–89.
• —, Review of Richard Nichols (ed.), Modern Korean Drama: An Anthology (Columbia UP 2009), Acta Koreana 14.2 (Dec. 2011), pp. 260–266. download (pdf), book, blog
• —, “Painters of Juche Life?”, exhibition review of “Art from Pyongyang” (Gallery Pyongyang, Berlin, Sept. 1–30, 2008), Asia-Pacific Journal 6.9 (Sept. 2008). Originally published on OhmyNews. full text online, download (pdf)

Other Writings

These are mostly journalistic texts on issues relevant to my research. See the menu “Journalism” (above) for more journalistic writing on Korea

• “Politik, Poesie und Pop: Südkorea beim Heidelberger Stückemarkt”, Goethe-Institut Korea, May 2018. link (German) link (Korean)
• “Nah an der Gegenwart” (Close to the Present; on contemporary Korean theatre), nachtkritik.de special portal for Heidelberger Stückemarkt, April 2018. link (German)
• “Pansori in Europa: Zwischen Vermittlung und Aneignung”, Kultur Korea, magazine of the Korean Culture Center Berlin, June 2017. link (German)
• “‘Ganz Berlin ist ein Theater!’ Bühnenlandschaft in Berlin” (on Berlin’s theatre landscape), Goethe-Institut Korea, Jan. 2013. link (German) link (Korean)

Conference Presentations

• Jan Creutzenberg, “Retelling, Replaying, Representing Shakespeare: Recent Pansori Adaptations in South Korea”, Shakespeare Association of Korea 60th Anniversary Conference, Seoul National University, Oct. 27, 2023. conference impressions
• —, “Performing Community through Songs of Belonging: Rhythm, Flow, and Participation in Leenalchi’s Pansori Pop”, Workshop “Belonging in South and North Korean popular culture: diverse perspectives”, Universität Hamburg/Online, Aug. 31, 2023.
• —, “Gemeinsam allein statt einsam daheim: Südkoreanische “Bang”-Kultur im Zeitalter des Livestreamings” (“Sharing Time Alone Together: South Korean “Bang”-culture in the Era of Live-streaming”), Workshop “Microtopoi: Poetics of Small Spaces”, KWI Essen, July 20, 2023. blog with links/videos
• —, “P’ansori in Germany: Korean Singing-Storytelling, from Invitation to Collaboration”, Workshop “Korean and German Encounters and Interactions”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Online, Jan. 20, 2023.
• —, “Musiktheater zwischen Korea und Deutschland: Einige Vergleichsversuche” (“Music Theatre between Korea and Germany: Some Comparative Attempts”), 이화여자대학교 독일어권문화연구소, 제4회 학술대회 “국내 독일어권 문화연구의 과제와 미래”, Dec. 9, 2022.
  
• —, “Promotion with Pansori: Rapid Rhythms and Looped Lyrics in Leenalchi’s Online Ads”, 11th World Congress of Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), Seongnam, Oct. 21, 2022 (part of the panel “Korean Sounds Shared with the World”, with Barbara Wall [organizer], Hee Seng Kye, and CedarBough Saeji). conference blog with links/videos
• —, “Visit, Encounter, Return: Korean-German Music Theatre Interweavings”, IMS Pre-Conference of “Asian-German Studies in Music” working group (part of the IMS Study Group “Global History of Music”), Online, August 9, 2022.
• —, “From Straw Mat to TV Screen: Liveness and Spectatorship in Pansori Programs”, 21st Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Daegu/Online, July 7, 2022 (part of the panel “Pop with a Past: Roots and Outlooks of Korean Performing Arts on Stage, Abroad, and in the Media”, with CedarBough Saeji [organizer], Haeree Choi, and Yoo Min-Hyung). conference Whova blog with links/videos
• —, “Classical or Traditional? Korean-German Music Theatre Interweavings”, MEA 2022, Online, May 15, 2022. conference 
• —, “Borrowed Voices in Pansori Cinema: Singing/Storytelling, On- and Off-Screen”, AAS 2022, Hawai’i/Online, March 27, 2022 (part of the panel “Tempting Tunes: Soundscapes of Korean Popular Culture”, with Barbara Wall [organizer], Hee Seng Kye, Jungwon Kim, and Byong Won Lee). conference blog with links/videos
• —, “Whose Tradition? Acknowledgement, Adaptation, and Ownership in Korean Performing Arts”, AAP 2021, Online, Aug. 2, 2021. conference blog with links/videos
• —, “Expanding Art Worlds: Pansori Theatre in Korea’s Contemporary Performing Arts Ecosystem”, IFTR World Congress, Online, July 16, 2021. blog with links/videos
• —, “Performative Re-mediations of Tradition: Korean Singing-Storytelling Pansori in the Movie Seopyeonje and its Stage Adaptations”, Conference of the ICLA Research Committee on Literatures/Arts/Media, Univ. of L’Aquila/Online, July 3, 2021. blog with links/videos/bibliography
• —, “Vitalising Tradition: New Creative Flows in Pansori Theatre”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Online, March 25, 2021 (part of the panel “Tradition Now: New Roles, Platforms, and Audiences for Korean Performing Arts”, with CedarBough T. Saeji [organizer], Jungmin Song, and Yoo Min-Hyung). blog with links/bibliography
• —, “Taroo’s ‘Pansori Hamlet Project’ at the Intersection of Music and Theatre, between Past and Present”, 4th Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association, Sejong University, Seoul, November 5, 2020. blog with links/bibliography
• —, “Pansori Cinema: Dubbing the Past, Remaking Tradition”, Conference “Vicarious Vocalities/Simulated Songs: Lost, Borrowed and Stolen Voices in Popular Culture”, Online, September 26, 2020. blog with links/bibliography
• —, “Staged Voices: Experimental Pansori Singing/Storytelling in the Korean Theatre Scene”, Association for Asian Performance Annual Conference (AAP), Online, July 28, 2020 (part of the panel “Tradition Today: How Artists Make Ends Meet in Korea’s Traditional Performing Arts Scene and Beyond”, with CedarBough T. Saeji, Jungmin Song, and Yoo Min-Hyung; panel organizer). blog with links/videos
• —, “Cold War Philanthropy for the Restoration of South Korea’s Theatre Landscape: Yu Chi-jin, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Seoul Drama Center”, IFTR World Congress, Shanghai Theatre Academy, July 9, 2019 (part of the panel “Planning Theatres for New Nations”, with Nic Leonhardt & Christopher Balme). blog
• —, “Deutsch ‘spielen’: Studentisches Fremdsprachentheater in Korea”, 4. Internationales Sorak-Symposium, Koreanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik, Gyeongju, Sept. 2018. blog
• —, “From Invitation and Promotion to Collaboration and Commission: Korean-German P’ansori Exchanges”, The 6th Symposium of the Study Group on Musics of East Asia (International Council for Traditional Music), National Gugak Center, Seoul, Aug. 2018 (part of the panel “Crossing Boundaries: Beyond the Borders of P’ansori”, with Min Hye Sung, Barbara Wall, and Anna Yates-Lu; panel co-organizer). conference, blog
• —, “Contemporary Korean Theatre, Courtesy of Uncle Sam? Yu Chi-jin, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Seoul Drama Center”, International Conference “Philanthropy, Development, and the Arts“, LMU München, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, July 2018. conference, blog
• —, “Making Difference Productive: Participant Observations in Pansori Performance”, Global Korean Studies: Writing Korean Culture (글로벌 한국학과 한국문화 쓰기), Seoul National University, Sept. 2017. conference
• —, “Pansori in Europa: Voraussetzungen, Geschichte, Praktiken” (Pansori in Europe: Pre-Conditions, History, Practices), symposium introductory remarks, Pansori in Europa: Zwischen Vermittlung und Aneignung (Pansori in Europe: Between Mediation and Appropriation”, Koreanisches Kulturzentrum Berlin, July 2017 (symposium co-organizer). blog
• —, “Towards a More International ‘Koreanness’? The Influence of Brecht on Pansori-Theatre”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference (AAS), Sheraton Centre Toronto, March 2017 (part of the panel “‘Koreanness’ on Display: From the Museum to the Musical Stage”, with Seungyoun Choi, CedarBough T. Saeji, Young-Sin Park, and Haeree Choi). blog
• —, “Traditional Performance for Today’s Audiences: Korean Singing-Storytelling Pansori”, IFTR World Congress, Univ. of Warwick, July 2014. abstract
• —, “Recent Experiments in Ch’anggŭk: The National Repertory Season 2012–13”, Colloquium of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, Seoul, Mar. 2014. blog
• —, “창작판소리와 서사극 사이에: 이자람의 <사천가>에 대한 연구” (Between New Pansori and Epic Theatre: Lee Jaram’s Sacheon-ga), Joined Conference of Korean Associations for German Language and Literature, Korea National University of Education, Cheongwon, Apr. 2013. blog
• —, “Creating Communities: Preservation, Promotion and Revival of Tradition in Pansori Performance”, 6th World Congress of Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies, Sept. 2012. conference, blog
• —, “Creating Communities: Korean Music Theatre P’ansori Between Preservation, Commemoration and Revival of Tradition”, poster presentation, CHIME-APAF Conference (European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, Asian Performing Arts Forum), Royal Holloway University of London, July 2011. conference, blog
• —, “The Good Person of Korea: Crosscultural Synergies and Challenges in Lee Jaram’s Sacheon- ga”, 13th Symposium of the International Brecht Society, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, May 2010. conference, blog
• —, “From Korea to the World: Lee Youn-taek’s Intercultural Hamlet”, Spring Conference of the German Shakespeare Society, Weimar, Apr. 2009. conference
• —, “Paris – Paradies? Frankreich als Fluchtpunkt im koreanischen Arthouse-Kino”, Margins Out/ Incorporated: Paradiesische Zustände, Free University Berlin, Jan. 2009. conference
• —, “Artist in Residences: The Intercultural Art of Haegue Yang”, 5th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention, Leiden, Aug. 2008. report

Invited Talks

• 이안 코이츤베악, “독일 공공극장의 장단점: 극장은 공연장만이 전부가 아니다” (“Advantages and Disadvantages of the Public Theatre System in Germany: A Theatre is More than a Stage”), 범연극인연대 제1회 국회포럼 “창,제작 전용 국립극장이란 무엇인가?”, 국회의원회관, Nov. 21, 2022.
• Jan Creutzenberg, “Chunhyang on Page, Stage, and Screen”, University of Copenhagen, June 2, 2022. blog
• —, “Vielstimmigkeit im deutschen Theater heute (독일 현재 연극과 목소리들의 다양성)” (Diverse Voices in German Theatre Today), Ewha Womans University, 10 Jan. 2022. announcement
• —, “Deutschsprachige Theaterpraxis an koreanischen Universitäten (대학의 독일어원어연극)” (German-language Theatre at Korean Universities), 독일어권문화연구소, Ewha Womans University, 21 Nov. 2018. announcement
• —, “Zwischen Tradition und Theater: Neue Pansori-Stücke aus Korea” (Between Tradition and Theatre: New Pansori Pieces From Korea), hosted by Kai Köhler, Korea Madang, Korea-Verband e.V., Berlin, 27 July 2016. abstract
• —, “Tradition of the Backyard, Tradition of the Street: The Location of Rewriting” (마당의 전통, 길거리의 전통: 다시쓰기의 현장), part of Pink Factory’s 2016 bi-lingual international workshop series “Tradition in Motion” (움직이는 전통), Gangwondo Hongcheon Regional Culture Space “Pink Factory”, 11 June 2016. blog
• —, “Zwischen Eigenem und Fremdem: Traditionelle Elemente im modernen koreanischen Theater” (Between the Own and the Foreign: Traditional Elements in Modern Korean Theatre), hosted by Kai Köhler, 38. Korea Madang, Korea-Verband e.V., Berlin, 6 Aug. 2014. abstract
• —, “독일과 한국사이에 보는 판소리” (Pansori, between Korea and Germany), joined talk with Yong Hae Sook about intercultural research and art practice, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Nov. 2013.
• —, “판소리와 서사극 사이에: 연극적인 대화로서의 이자람의 <사천가>” (Between Pansori and Epic Theatre: Lee Jaram’s Sacheon-ga as a Theatrical Dialogue”), invited talk, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, Oct. 2013. blog
• —, “Gemeinschaftserfahrungen in Pansori-Aufführungen” (Communal Experiences in Pansori Performances), together with Matthias R. Entreß, 29. Korea Madang, Korea-Verband e.V., Berlin, 19 Nov. 2011. abstract, blog

Workshop Participations

• 2021 Korea Research Collaboratory: Emotions, “Attachment and connection in Korea’s past and present”, Korea Research Centre at The University of Western Australia, Feb. 4–5, 2021.
• “Performance-related Concepts in Korean Language”, International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin, July 21–22, 2016.

Interviews (mostly on pansori)

• with Katrin Krämer of Nordwest Radio (Radio Bremen) on Shakespeare in Korea, on the occasion of  his 400th day of death (“Ein Tag für William Shakespeare” [A Day for William Shakespeare], in German), 2016. audio on demand, blog
• brief appearance in “4Angles” (on the German “Meister”-system), Arirang TV, 2016 (in English). info, video on demand (2016-03-25)
• with Kurt Achin of “Koreascape”, TBS eFM, 2015 (in English). on demand (episode 25, Sept. 12, 2015, entry no. 115)
• with Gesine Stoyke in Kultur Korea 2015/2, the magazine of the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin, 2015 (in German). online
• with Walter A. Foreman of “Inside Out”, TBS eFM, Thanksgiving-special, 2014 (in English). iTunes (episode 103), info, blog
• for Gugak FM, 2014 (in Korean). Parts of the interview were used in a feature on the 10th anniversary of the designation of pansori as Intangible World Heritage by UNESCO. The title of the feature is “유네스코 등재10주년‘판소리, 시대와 놀다’” (10th Anniversary of the UNESCO Registration – Pansori, Playing with Time) and it was broadcast on the lunar New Year 2014 (more exactly: Feb. 1st, 8-9 pm). audio on demand.
• with Dorothea Suh, blog of Korea.net, 2014 (in English). link (seems to be down…)
• for the customer magazine of KIA Motors (기아 자동차 고객잡지), 2013/12 (in Korean).
• four-part radio column about how I came to live in Korea, “Primetime”, TBS eFM, 2013 (in English). (unfortunately, no audio on demand available).
• in the newsletter of Jeonju Int’ Sori Festival (in Korean), 2012. online, blog
• with Adrien Lee of “Catch the Wave”, Arirang Radio, 2012 (in English). blog, on demand (look for “I Heart Korea” on 16 Nov. 2012, which should be item no. 7)
• with Jan Janowski of “Treffen zweier Welten”, KBS World, 2012 (in German). info, blog