Tankred Dorst
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Image: Tankred Dorst (Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0)Tankred Dorst has been appointed Brothers Grimm Poetry Professor at the Kassel University of Kassel (GhK) for the 1986/87 winter semester. His lectures began on Thursday, November 20.
Dorst is - like the Brothers Grimm were - a border crosser who seeks possibilities across genres and media: a novelist and playwright as well as a film author, a writer as well as a contemporary critic. What possibilities media such as theater or film open up for an author, including their interactions, was another topic Dorst addressed in Kassel. And the audience in Kassel was also curious about the connections between works such as Eiszeit, Toller, Merlin, Heinrich or die Schmerzen der Phantasie and the play Ich, Feuerbach, which premiered in Munich's Residenztheater at the end of October 1986, as well as the three films Dorst has made to date as an author and director - KLARAS MUTTER (D 1978), MOSCH (D 1980) and EISENHANS (D 1983) - 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 discussed his previous works in context in order to present them - especially his plays - 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 every year, as he had always perceived the images of the Grimm fairy tales as "images for our lives" and woven some motifs into films and plays.
The scheduled dates were November 20, December 4 and 18, January 15 and 29 and February 12, all at 8 p.m. in the lecture hall of the GhK, Menzelstraße 13 (former art academy).
