Prof. Dr. David Julian Barnett

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheatre and Media Studies
KeywordsDialectical Theatre, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bertolt Brecht, Contemporary German Dramaturgy, Postdramatic theatre

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityYork
InstitutionUniversity of York
InstituteDepartment of Theatre, Film and Television

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Michael GissenwehrerInstitut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Erdmut WizislaArchiv der Akademie der Künste, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2001

Program(s)

2001Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2015David Barnett: A History of the Berliner Ensemble. Cambridge University Press, 2015
2014Prof. Dr. David Julian Barnett: Brecht in Practice: Theatre, Theory and Performance. Bloomsbury, 2014
2011David Julian Barnett: Brechtian Theory as Practice: The Berliner Ensemble stages Der Messingkauf in 1963. In: Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2011, 4-17
2010David Julian Barnett: Christoph Marthaler: The Musicality, Theatricality and Politics of Postdramatic Direction. In: Delgado, Maria and Rebellato, Dan, Contemporary European Theatre Directors. Routledge, 2010. 185-203
2010David Julian Barnett: ‘I have to change myself instead of interpreting myself.’ Heiner Müller as Post-Brechtian Director‘. In: Contemporary Theatre Review, 2010, 6-20
2006David Julian Barnett: Bühnenbusiness: Mensch, Markt und Management in drei neuen deutschen Theaterstücken. In: David Barnett, Moray McGowan, Karen Jürs-Munby, Das Analoge sträubt sich gegen das Digitale? Materialitäten des deutschsprachigen Theaters in einer Welt des Virtuellen. Theater der Zeit, 2006. 56-70
2005David Julian Barnett: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre. Cambridge University Press, 2005
2004David Julian Barnett: The Simulation of a Reception. Or: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Der Muell, die Stadt und der Tod in Germany, Holland, and Israel. In: Contemporary Theatre Review, 2004, 29-40
2003David Julian Barnett: Text as Material? The Category of 'Performativity' in Three Postdramatic German Theatre-Texts. In: Carolin Duttlinger, Lucia Ruprecht and Andrew Webber, Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies. Peter Lang, 2003. 137-157
2003David Julian Barnett: `'Da draussen sind Hunderte von solchen wie Sie einer sind'. The Triumph of the Market and the Persistence of Dialectics in Urs Widmer's Top Dogs'. In: Forum Modernes Theater, 2003, 153-164