Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle
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Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle is a series of experimental didactic plays by Bertolt Brecht designed to explore political and social ideas through participatory, instructional theatre.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
didactic theatre
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series of plays ⓘ theatre cycle ⓘ |
| aim |
to explore political and social ideas
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to teach through performance ⓘ to transform performers’ consciousness ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lehrstücke
NERFINISHED
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learning plays ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Weimar Republic
NERFINISHED
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left-wing theatre collectives ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Bertolt Brecht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationalFunction |
collective experimentation in theatre
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political education ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic play
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epic theatre ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis
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Der Flug der Lindberghs NERFINISHED ⓘ Der Jasager NERFINISHED ⓘ Der Neinsager NERFINISHED ⓘ Der Ozeanflug NERFINISHED ⓘ Die Ausnahme und die Regel NERFINISHED ⓘ Die Maßnahme NERFINISHED ⓘ Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe (sometimes classified as Lehrstück-related) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
applied theatre
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educational theatre ⓘ participatory theatre ⓘ political theatre ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Soviet revolutionary theatre
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dialectical materialism ⓘ workers’ movement ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
performers as learners
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politically engaged groups ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
class struggle
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collective decision-making ⓘ didacticism in theatre ⓘ ethics of political action ⓘ politics ⓘ revolutionary politics ⓘ social relations ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxism
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avant-garde theatre ⓘ modernism ⓘ |
| period |
early 1930s
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late 1920s ⓘ |
| theatricalApproach |
instructional theatre
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non-Aristotelian drama ⓘ participatory performance ⓘ |
| theatricalDevice | Verfremdungseffekt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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