Helmar Schramm
09.11.2007 | Helmar Schramm
has been a Professor of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin since 1998. He started his scientific career in 1981 at the Humboldt University, Berlin, then worked at the Academy of Sciences and at a special research centre of the Max-Planck-Institute in Berlin. From 1995 to 1998 he was Professor at the Dept. of Theatre Studies of the University of Leipzig. He took part in many international conferences (e.g. USA, Mexico, Southafrica, Russia, Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Austria). 2006 and 2007 he worked as a guest professor at Chiang Mai University (Thailand). He organised many international conferences, recently: Traces of the Avantgarde: Theatrum Machinarum (2005), Traces of the Avantgarde: Theatrum Anatomicum (2006). These projects will be continued in 2007 under the title “Traces of the Avantgarde: Theatrum Alchemicum”. His main research interests are: Interrelation between the history of the arts and sciences, avant-garde theatre and performative turns under the influence of modern media systems. Some main publications include: Karneval des Denkens. Theatralität im Spiegel philosophischer Texte des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Berlin 1996); Bühnen des Wissens. Interferenzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst (Co-Ed., Berlin 2003); Collection-Laboratory-Theater. Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th century (Co-Ed., Berlin 2005);
Instrumente in Kunst und Wissenschaft. Zur Architektonik kultureller Grenzen im 17. Jahrhundert (Co-Ed., Berlin 2006); Spektakuläre Experimente. Praktiken der Evidenzproduktion im 17. Jahrhundert (Co-Ed., Berlin 2006); Place and Trace in the Theatrum Scientiarum, (introduction) to: Collection-Laboratory-Theater. Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century (Co-Ed., Berlin 2005); Theater in the “Theatrum Europaeum”. On the transformation of Performative Space in the 17th Century, in: Collection-Laboratory-Theater. Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century (Co-Ed., Berlin 2005); Singing Flames. On the relation between play and experiment in the 19th Century, in: The Shape of Experiment (Berlin 2006).
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