Tag Archives: Germany

Sharing Time Alone Together: Noraebang as Microtopoi

These are some extra links and sources for my talk on noraebang (노래방, lit. “song-room”), the Korean karaoke-variant practiced in small cabins, often amongst semi-anonymous colleagues. I participate in a workshop titled “Microtopoi: Poetics of Small Spaces” the KWI (Kulturwissenschaftliches … Continue reading

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Seeing Jeremy Wade’s Duo “Glory” in Frankfurt

I’ve occasionally written for Korean magazines on “German” theatre, or rather on performances I saw in Germany, as well as on current discussions there. For instance, last year I reported on the troubles with power abuse by theatre directors (연극평론 … Continue reading

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German Theatre in Korea, part2: Sources, Translations, Productions

This post is the second part on a series spawn from a graduate seminar on the “History of the Reception of German Literature in Korea”, more specifically on “German Theatre in Korea”, which I taught in early 2020. In the … Continue reading

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German Theatre in Korea, part1: Some Systematic Considerations

The new semester just began, time to reflect on the last one…? Not really, but anyway some notes on my first graduate seminar I taught last spring at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. The curriculum features a course on the … Continue reading

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Performing the City #BerlinTheatreSchedule part1

This January, I went to Berlin for three weeks with a group of eight Korean students, all majors of German Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University. The goal of this three week “Overseas Education Program” (해외교수인솔프로그램) is to learn … Continue reading

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She She Pop and their Dads in Seoul: Theatrical Genealogies from the Family Album

When studying theatre in Berlin, back in the early days of this century, I loved seeing theatre that took itself serious—no make-believe, no drama, no night like any one before (disclaimer: I still do). At that time, performances by René Pollesch (Telefavela, … Continue reading

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