After the war Piscator set out to create a theatre that had a clear place and function in a world that also contained machine guns and artillery shells. His first such efforts brought him into association with the Dadaists.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the interconnection between the Berlin Dada movement and Erwin Piscator's political theatre. In the aftermath of the First World War, Berlin...

Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty. [2]

The artist George Grosz recalls the early days of the dada art movement when he and John Heartfield invented photomontage for anti-military posters and performances, saying of Piscator, “In...

Erwin Piscator In the years 1918, 1919, and 1920, the Berlin Dada movement, mounting less than thirty productions, exerted a formidable, if indirect, influence over the development of the German theatre.

The art scene of the Weimar Republic was largely marked by new forms of realist art that appeared side by side with the avant-garde movements of Expressionism and Dada. New forms of art that foregrounded realism included agitprop theatre, the movement of New Objectivity, and the epic and documentary theatres of Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht.

This 1977 text was the first full study of Erwin Piscator, the German theatrical producer who was prominent in the 1920s and worked after 1945 with the writers Hochhuth, Kipphardt and Weiss....

As a wider examination of Piscator's contributions to dramaturgical and aesthetic form, The Piscatorbühne Century makes a powerful and timely case for the renewed significance of the broader epic theater tradition.

Nov 16, 2015 · Erwin Piscator is a German director who was “one of the most remarkable artists in second stage of the modern movement, whose work remains in many ways inspiring, yet at the same time brings under question the very notion of political art" with its consequences. (The theatre of Erwin Piscator, 45).

Beteiligung Piscators an einigen Veranstaltungen des Berliner Dada an der "Tribüne" (mit George Grosz, John Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde und Walter Mehring) Piscator gründet "Das Tribunal" in Königsberg 1920