| dc.contributor.author | Nothof, Anne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-23T15:28:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-23T15:28:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06-23T15:28:56Z | |
| dc.identifier.other | 2007 Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences Congress in Saskatoon, SK, May 23-29, 2007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2548 | |
| dc.description | I presented this paper as one of three in the final panel of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research conference on May 29, 2007 at the University of Saskatoon. For the full conference program, see: http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Enormang/ACTR%2064%20-%20program.html.
The attendance of association members was good – about thirty, and they responded to my paper with several questions which will help to direct revisions for publication. This paper was excerpted and extensively revised from a longer essay, which is currently under consideration by external readers as one of a collection of essays on Alberta culture, submitted to the University of Alberta Press by editors George Melnyk and Donna Coates from the English Department of the University of Calgary. I am also considering this paper for inclusion in a collection of essays on Alberta theatre, edited by myself for Playwrights Canada Press, forthcoming in 2008. A copy of the paper is attached. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Alberta playwrights Mieko Ouchi and Vern Thiessen both explore the tragic consequences of a political expropriation of the creative imagination for nationalistic ends. Their “German” plays interrogate history in terms of individual aesthetic and scientific choices and compromises. In Ouchi’s The Blue Light, Leni Riefenstahl defends her filmmaking for Hitler’s Third Reich as an apolitical artistic enterprise. In Einstein’s Gift, Thiessen compares the philosophies and beliefs of physicist Albert Einstein and chemist Fritz Haber
in respect to their scientific research, and the ironic and disastrous repercussions of their work. Both plays engage in ethical debates on a personal and political level, revisiting history to consider the possibility of making moral choices within a totalitarian political system. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Academic & Professional Development Fund (A&PDF) | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 92.927.G969; | |
| dc.subject | German plays | en |
| dc.subject | Mieko Ouchi | en |
| dc.subject | Vern Thiessen | en |
| dc.subject | political expropriation | en |
| dc.title | Making History Meaningful: The German Plays of Mieko Ouchi and Vern Thiessen | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
