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One-Mensch-Theater

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One-Mensch-Theater Natias Neutert, at Arena, Vienna 1982

Ein-Mensch-Theater (German: Mensch "human being") is a German expression for a traveling theater, within the owner is writer, director, stage designer, performer and sometimes even his own tour manager in one person.[1]

Franca Rame, at the Italian TV-show "Canzonissima",1962
Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo in Cesena, Italy, 2008
Johnny Melville, 2012

Origin

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The term was coined by Natias Neutert after his performance (The poet reels into the Open) at Schauspielhaus Bochum during a panel discussion with Peter Zadek[2]

Robert Kreis at «Peety's», Köln 2013

Goal

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His intention was going to replace the worn and partial label one-man show by a label under which both males and females could find equally.[3]

Exponents

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Dario Fo, Robert Kreis, Johnny Melville, Natias Neutert and Franca Rame became famous exponents as this type of theater in Europe.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ A definition, corresponding with The poor Theater and its imagination power. Cf. Jerzy Grotowski: Towards a Poor Theatre (Preface: Peter Brook/Edited by Eugenio Barba). Eyre Metghuen, London 1980. ISBN 978-0-413-34910-1
  2. ^ DIE ZEIT No. 32, 4 August 1978.
  3. ^ So Neutert in the panel discussion at Schauspielhaus Bochum, August 1978.
  4. ^ Cf.Hannes Heer (Ed.), Dario Fo über Dario Fo. Übersetzt aus dem Italienischen von Ulrich Enzensberger. Prometh Köln, 1980 ISBN 3922009115