Peculiar Voices

Goebbels, Heiner; Winnacker, Susanne

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00047

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Peculiar Voices

Heiner Goebbels,

Heiner Goebbels

Heiner Goebbels, composer and theatre director, is Professor and Managing Director at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. Since 2006, he has been President of the Theatre Academy of Hessen. He composes for ensemble and big orchestras as well as ‘staged concerts’ and music theatre plays, which are presented at most major music and theatre festivals in Europe, USA, and Australia. Works include: Black on White (1996), Max Black (1998), Hashirigaki (2000), Landscape with distant Relatives (2002), Eraritjaritjaka (2004), Songs of Wars I have seen (2007), Stifters Dinge (2007), I went to the house but did not enter (2008). His recordings have been released by ECM records, twice followed by a grammy nomination. www.heinergoebbels.com.

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Susanne Winnacker

Susanne Winnacker teaches at the University for Performing Arts and Music in Francfort/M. She has also taught in New York, Amsterdam, and Leipzig, worked at DasArts in Amsterdam, and has written various essays and articles about contemporary experimental theatre. She has curated various theatre festivals, and has worked as Executive General Manager, Head of the dramaturgy department, and curator for dance at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

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Heiner Goebbels

Heiner Goebbels, composer and theatre director, is Professor and Managing Director at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. Since 2006, he has been President of the Theatre Academy of Hessen. He composes for ensemble and big orchestras as well as ‘staged concerts’ and music theatre plays, which are presented at most major music and theatre festivals in Europe, USA, and Australia. Works include: Black on White (1996), Max Black (1998), Hashirigaki (2000), Landscape with distant Relatives (2002), Eraritjaritjaka (2004), Songs of Wars I have seen (2007), Stifters Dinge (2007), I went to the house but did not enter (2008). His recordings have been released by ECM records, twice followed by a grammy nomination. www.heinergoebbels.com.

Susanne Winnacker

Susanne Winnacker teaches at the University for Performing Arts and Music in Francfort/M. She has also taught in New York, Amsterdam, and Leipzig, worked at DasArts in Amsterdam, and has written various essays and articles about contemporary experimental theatre. She has curated various theatre festivals, and has worked as Executive General Manager, Head of the dramaturgy department, and curator for dance at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2011

TDR/The Drama Review (2011) 55 (1 (209)): 46–51.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00047

Abstract

The experimental work with the human voice in contemporary compositions often simply ignores the genuine connection of the voice to expression and to the body. The voice is not a “neutral” instrument, but always intertwined with its very character of impartation and its physical body.

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