Tankred Dorst
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Image: Tankred Dorst (Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0)Tankred Dorst has been appointed as Brothers Grimm Poetics Professor at the Gesamthochschule Kassel (GhK) for the 1986/87 winter semester. His lectures began on Thursday, November 20.
Dorst is - like the Brothers Grimm - a border crosser who seeks possibilities across genres and media: both novelist and playwright as well as film author, both writer and critic of the times. The possibilities that media such as theater and film open up for an author, including their interactions, were another topic Dorst addressed in Kassel. And one was also curious in Kassel about the connections between works such as Eiszeit, Toller, Merlin, Heinrich or the pains of the imagination up to the play Ich, Feuerbach, which premiered at the Munich Residenztheater at the end of October 1986, up to also the three films Dorst has made up to then as an author and director - KLARAS MUTTER (D 1978), MOSCH (D 1980) and EISENHANS (D 1983) - and which he himself sees as an attempt at a German mythology.
Image: text+criticismGPP event series with Tankred Dorst
In a total of six public (pre-)readings at the university, Dorst addressed his previous works in context in order to present them - especially his plays - also in the context of their contemporary history, such as Toller, which premiered in 1968, or Merlin or das wüste Land, which was written between 1978/80. Tankred Dorst felt doubly connected to the intentions of the Brothers Grimm Professorship at the GhK, to which renowned contemporary authors are appointed on a rotating basis each year. He had always perceived the images of the Grimm fairy tales as "images for our lives" and interwove some motifs into films and plays.
The scheduled dates were November 20, December 4 and 18, January 15 and 29, and February 12, each at 8 p.m. in the lecture hall of the GhK, Menzelstraße 13 (former art academy).
