Erwin Piscator

Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty.

Writings

• The Political Theatre: A History, 1914-1929, trans. Hugh Rorrison, New York: Avon, 1978.

Films

• Vosstanie rybakov [Восстание рыбаков; Revolt of the Fishermen], Soviet Union, 1932-1934.

Literature

• Heinrich Goertz, Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1974, 155 pp. (German)
• Michael Schwaiger, Bertolt Brecht und Erwin Piscator. Experimentelles Theater im Berlin der zwanziger Jahre, Vienna, 2004. (German)
• Timothy Earl Youker, "The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form, Columbia University, 2012. Ph.D. Dissertation.
• Bibliography

Links

• http://erwin-piscator.de
• http://thenewschoolhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/willet_piscatordramaticworkshop.pdf
• Erwin Piscator Papers, 1930–1971
• http://groniek.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/root/2004/II_04/ErwPisselAbe_3/article.pdf
• http://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=118594648
• Erwin Piscator Archiv (German)