DISE018 Guest Lecturer Course - Theatre in the Terezin Ghetto (Lisa Peschel)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. MgA. David Drozd, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. MgA. David Drozd, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Karolína Stehlíková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Syllabus
  • In this series of four lectures, Dr Lisa Peschel will explore theatrical performance in the Terezin ghetto and original scripts written by the prisoners. The first lecture presents the history of the ghetto itself and the role that theatre played for the incredibly varied prisoner population: the ghetto held thousands of individuals of different nationalities and ages, with a wide range of political opinions and attitudes toward their own Jewish identity. The remaining lectures will focus on three scripts, each representing a different group of prisoners: a Czech-language cabaret inspired by the musical revues of Voskovec and Werich, a German-language verse drama based on the myth of Orpheus, and a Purimspiel, written to celebrate the carnivalesque Jewish holiday of Purim.
  • Lectures will take place from 30th of October to 2nd of November.
  • Monday 30. 10 - 10.00-11.30 (G 03)
  • Tuesday 31. 10 - 12.00-13.30 (J002)
  • Wednesday 1. 11 - 10.00-11.30 (J002)
  • Čtvrtek 2. 11 - 12.00-13.30 (G01)
  • (and extra lecture for public on 1st of November 5 p.m. - Humor in Terezin Ghetto)
Literature
    required literature
  • PESCHEL, Lisa, ed., DOBIÁŠ, Dalibor, ed. a WÖGERBAUER, Michael, ed. Divadelní texty z terezínského ghetta 1941-1945. Překlad Dalibor Dobiáš a Michael Wögerbauer. 1. vyd. Praha: Akropolis, 2008. 545, [12] s. ISBN 978-80-86903-82-8.
  • PESCHEL, Lisa, ed. Performing captivity, performing escape: cabarets and plays from the Terezín-Theresienstadt ghetto. London: Seagull Books, 2014. xxiii, 419 stran. In performance. ISBN 978-0-8574-2-000-8.
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: V angličtině. Pro získání kreditu je vyžadována účast na přednášce a semináři a dílčí práce. In English. Attendance at lecture and seminar and an written essay are required to obtain credit.
Teacher's information
Dr Lisa Peschel is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in theatre in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, England. She has been researching theatrical performance in the Terezín/Theresienstadt ghetto since 1998. Her articles on survivor testimony and scripts written in the ghetto have appeared in theatre- and Holocaust-related journals in the US and the UK and in Czech, German and Israeli publications. She has lectured and conducted performance workshops at institutions in the US and UK, in Europe, South Africa and Australia. From 2014 to 2018 she was a co-investigator on the £1.8 million project Performing the Jewish Archive, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her monograph in progress, Stages of Life: Survivor Testimony on Theater in the Terezín/Theresientstadt Ghetto, traces the testimony of five Czech-Jewish survivors from the immediate postwar period to the 1960s, the 1990s and her own interviews with them in 2004-08.
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