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Dr. Torsten Jost (he | him)

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Theatre & Performance Studies | Theaterwissenschaft

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Address
Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15
Room 02.10
14195 Berlin-Steglitz
Additional Address
Institute for Theatre Studies, Grunewaldstr. 35, 12165 Berlin-Steglitz
Telephone
+49 30 838 52194
Email
torsten.jost@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
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Office hours

by appointment (via email)

Current Responsibilities

  • Head of International Research Cooperation at the Cluster of Excellence 2020: Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective 
  • Participating Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence 2020: Temporal Communities (Research Area 2: Travelling Matters)
  • Lecturer at the Institute for Theatre & Performance Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Vita

Dr. Torsten Jost is Head of International Research Cooperation at the Cluster of Excellence (EXC) 2020 'Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective' at Freie Universität Berlin. He also participates in the EXC 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher in Research Area 2 'Travelling Matters' with his own research project on 'Spectating as Epistemic Practice'. After receiving his PhD from FU Berlin in 2017, he joined the faculty of the university’s Theater and Performance Studies Department, where he teaches courses in the bachelor’s and master’s degree program. In 2018, Jost was invited as a guest lecturer by the Shanghai Theater Academy, China. His dissertation, which was nominated for the Ernst-Reuter-Prize, was published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag under the title Gertrude Stein: Nervosität und das Theater (2019, Gertrude Stein: Nervousness and the Theatre). Together with Erika Fischer-Lichte, he has coedited numerous books on theater and performance in German and English, including The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism (Routledge, 2014), Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language – Politics, Translations, Embodiments (Routledge, 2020), Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World (Routledge, 2021), Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography (Routledge, 2023), Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I: (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance (Routledge, 2023), Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II: Interweaving Epistemologies (Routledge, 2023), and The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages (Routledge, 2024 forthcoming). Currently, Jost is working on his second monograph (his habitilation) on "Spectating as Epistemic Practice" (working title).

Master program

Sprechtheater in China. Geschichten, Theorien und Ästhetiken [Huaju in China: Histories, Theories and Aesthetics]. Research seminar + Practice, 2+2 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2018/19. 

Gertrude Stein und das Theater [Gertrude Stein and the theatre]. Research seminar + Practice, 2+2 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2017/18.

Bachelor program

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Together with Naomi Boyce. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2023/24.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Together with Naomi Boyce. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2022/23.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Summer semester 2022.

Moderne Theorien des Zuschauens [Modern Theories of Spectating]. Obligatory proseminar in the module Introduction to theatre/performance historiography. 4 semester hours per week, Summer semester 2020.

Chinesisches Musiktheater (Xiqu): Geschichte und zeitgenössische Ästhetiken [Traditional Chinese Performing Arts (Xiqu): History and contemporary aesthetics]. Together with Dr. Mei Wei, Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA), China. Block seminar, 2 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2019/20.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2019/20.

“Bridges between East and West!”: Vortragsereignisse des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts [Lecture events of the early 20th century]. Obligatory proseminar in the module Introduction to theatre/performance historiography. 4 semester hours per week, Summer semester 2019.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2018/19.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2017/18.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Together with Dr. Christel Weiler. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2016/17.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Together with Dr. Christel Weiler. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Summer semester 2016.

Einführung in die Aufführungsanalyse [Introduction to Performance Analysis]. Together with Dr. Kristiane Hasselmann. Obligatory proseminar in the module Contemporary theatre/performance. 4 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2010/11.

International teaching

Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies. Online lecture (weekly), Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA), China. 2 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2020/21 [canceled after 5 sessions due to Shanghai campus lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic].

Introduction to Performance Analysis. Block seminar, Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA), China. 2 semester hours per week, Winter semester 2018/19.

Main research fields

  • Contemporary performing arts (in their global interconnectedness)
  • Intersections of performing arts with other arts and media
  • Knowledge in/Epistemologies of performing arts; spectating as epistemic practice
  • Historiography of the performing arts, particular focus on 19th and 20th centuries
  • Gertrude Stein studies
  • Practices and theories of interweaving performance cultures
  • Postcolonial and decolonial practices and theories

 

  • Gertrude Stein: Nervosität und das Theater. Die Geschichte ihrer therapeutischen Theaterästhetik (Gertrude Stein: Nervousness and the Theater. The history of Stein's therapeutic theater aesthetics). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2018. https://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-6357-9.html

The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte and Astrid Schenka. London, New York: Routledge 2024. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Performance-Related-Concepts-in-Non-European/Fischer-Lichte-Jost-Schenka/p/book/9780367696702

Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume 2: Interweaving Epistemologies. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte, Milos Kosic, and Astrid Schenka. London, New York: Routledge 2023. https://www.routledge.com/Performance-Cultures-as-Epistemic-Cultures-Volume-II-Interweaving-Epistemologies/Fischer-Lichte-Jost-Kosic-Schenka/p/book/9781032445731 

Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume 1: (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte, Milos Kosic, and Astrid Schenka. London, New York: Routledge 2023. https://www.routledge.com/Performance-Cultures-as-Epistemic-Cultures-Volume-I-ReGenerating-Knowledges/Fischer-Lichte-Jost-Kosic-Schenka/p/book/9781032445724

Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte, Małgorzata Sugiera, Holger Hartung, and Omid Soltani. London, New York: Routledge 2022. https://www.routledge.com/Entangled-Performance-Histories-New-Approaches-to-Theater-Historiography/Fischer-Lichte-Sugiera-Jost-Hartung-Soltani/p/book/9781032405131

Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte and Christel Weiler. London, New York: Routledge 2021. https://www.routledge.com/Dramaturgies-of-Interweaving-Engaging-Audiences-in-an-Entangled-World/Lichte-Weiler-Jost/p/book/9781032034218 

Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language. Politics, Translations, Embodiments. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte and Saskya Iris Jain. London, New York: Routledge 2020. https://www.routledge.com/Theatrical-Speech-Acts-Performing-Language-Politics-Translations-Embodiments/Fischer-Lichte-Jost-Jain/p/book/9781003011118

Regiekunst Heute. Stimmen und Positionen aus China. Ed. with Tian Mansha (Shanghai Theatre Academy). Berlin: Alexander Verlag 2018. https://www.alexander-verlag.com/programm/titel/423-regiekunst-heute.html 

    • Chinese Translation: 田蔓莎，托斯腾·约斯特 (主编)：当代中国导演观点, 上海：上海人民出版社，2020. [Tian Mansha, Torsten Jost (Ed.): Insights from contemporary Chinese theatre directors (Shanghai: Shanghai Volksverlag 2020).] http://www.ewen.co/people/index.asp
    • englische Übersetzung (aktuell in Vorbereitung)

The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte and Saskya Iris Jain. London, New York: Routledge 2014.  https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317935841

Die Aufführung. Diskurs – Macht – Analyse. Ed. with Erika Fischer-Lichte, Adam Czirak, Frank Richarz, and Nina Tecklenburg. München: Wilhelm Fink 2012. https://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-5354-9.html


** UPCOMING IN 2024 **

  1. Directing Theatre and Performance in China Today: Twelve Directors’ First-Hand Accounts. Ed. withTian Mansha, with translations by Naomi Boyce, from German, and Stefan Christ, from Chinese. London, New York: Routledge (in preparation).


  • "Growing into Epistemic Knowledge trough Performance: Rosanna Raymond's 'Soli I Tai – Soli I Uta' at Berlin's Ethnological Museum", Orbis Litterarum, 00, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12329
  • "Introduction: Dramaturgies of Interweaving, Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World" (gem. mit Erika Fischer-Lichte und Christel Weiler), in: E. Fischer-Lichte, T. Jost, C. Weiler (Hg.): Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World (Routledge 2021), S. 1–27.
  • 论“剧本”概念的界限和潜能 [On the limits and potentials of the concept ‘drama’], Translated by 陈琳 Chen Lin, in 戏剧艺朮 [Theatre Arts] (5/2020), Online available at: https://www.sohu.com/a/426997920_774921.
  • "Einleitung" in: Tian Mansha, Torsten Jost (Hg.): Regiekunst Heute. Stimmen und Positionen aus China, Berlin: Alexander Verlag 2018, S. 23–33.
  • "Analysen der Aufführung. Für eine Pluralität der Perspektiven", in: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Adam Czirak, Torsten Jost, Frank Richarz, Nina Tecklenburg (Hg.): Die Aufführung. Diskurs - Macht - Analyse, München: Wilhelm Fink 2012, S. 245–52.
  • "Zum Zusammenspiel von Medialität und Performativität. Oder: Warum noch Hoffnung für das Theater besteht", in: Klaus W. Hempfer, Jörg Volbers (Hg.): Theorien des Performativen. Sprache - Wissen - Praxis. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme, Bielefeld: Transcript 2011, S. 97–114.
  • gem. mit Matthias Weiß: "Spielend zwischen Kunst und Leben. Zur Frage des Selbst in Texten und Porträtfotografien von Gertrude Stein", in: Gunter Gebauer, Ekkehard König, Jörg Volbers (Hg.): Selbst-Reflexionen. Performative Perspektiven, München: Wilhelm Fink 2011, S. 249–264.

Übersetzungen (aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche, Auswahl)

  • Platon Mavromoustakos: "Das antike griechische Drama als nationale Frage. Kritiker- und Publikumsreaktionen auf moderne Aufführungen", in: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Matthias Warstat (Hg.): Staging Festivity. Theater und Fest in Europa, Tübingen, Basel: Francke 2009, S. 303-316.
  • Oliver Taplin: "Bilder und Bühne. Die visuelle Übersetzung der antiken griechischen Tragödie", in: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Matthias Dreyer (Hg.): Antike Tragödie Heute. Vorträge und Materialien zum Antiken-Projekt des Deutschen Theaters, Berlin: Henschel 2007 (= Blätter des Deutschen Theaters, Bd.6), S. 33-45.
  • Edith Hall: "Mordfall. Euripides' Medea und das Strafrecht", in: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Matthias Dreyer (Hg.): Antike Tragödie Heute. Vorträge und Materialien zum Antiken-Projekt des Deutschen Theaters, Berlin: Henschel 2007 (= Blätter des Deutschen Theaters, Bd.6), S. 83-93.
  • Edith Hall: "Medea als Mysterium im Global Village. Das göttliche Wissen und der Zorn der Unterdrückten", in: Nike Bätzner, Matthias Dreyer, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Astrid Silvia Schönhagen (Hg.): medeamorphosen. Mythos und ästhetische Transformation, München: Fink 2010, S. 19-33.

  • 05/2021: „Performative Kunst für Epistemische Gerechtigkeit: Rosanna Raymonds »Soli I Tai – Soli I Uta«.“ Vortrag im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Künste unter Druck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. https://www.kunstwissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehre/fachschaften/vortragsreihe/aktuell/wemgehoertdiekunst/index.html.

  • 11/2019: „The Performative Aesthetics of Interweaving Performance Cultures.“ Keynote at the International Conference Theater and Performance Art: Fields of Friction and Contact, Tangier/Tetouan, Morocco.
  • 10/2018: "Practicing Performance Analysis. On practices of performance analysis and their cultural & historical specificity", Lecture at the Department of Theatre, Film & TV, Nanjing University (China), 16. October 2018.
  • 05/2018: "Investigating Debates on Theatricality and Performativity", International Conference on Cultural Mobility of Performance and Performativity Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, Faculty of Polish Studies, 28-23 May 2018.
  • 11/2017: "On the variety of 'interweaving fears' (Verflechtungsängste): sources, articulations and effects", International Symposium Theatre Forms in Motion. Zones of contact and friction, 13th Edition of Performing Tangier Festival, Morokko, November 24-8, 2017.
  • 09/2017: "The performative aesthetics of interweaving performance cultures. On Erika Fischer-Lichte’s analysis of Abramović`s ‘Lips of Thomas’ (1975) and its theoretical afterlife", Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre, Cairo, Egypt, September 2017.
  • 03/2017: "Interweaving Performance Cultures: Theory and Practice", International Conference Interweaving Cultures: Theory and Practice hosted by The School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, März 2017. 
  • 07/2010: "Medialität und Performativität", Internationale Abschlusstagung Performing the Future des SFB 447 "Kulturen des Performativen" in Kooperation mit dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin: Juli 2010.
  • 02/2010: "Einführung in die Sektion Methodologie", Internationale Tagung MachtTheaterWissenschaft. The Making of a Theory: Theatre, Science, Power des Teilprojekts B1 "Ästhetik des Performativen" (SFB 447 "Kulturen des Performativen"), Berlin: Februar 2010.
  • 11/2009: gem. mit Matthias Weiß: "Look at me now and here I am", Internationale Jahrestagung Self-Reflexions: Concepts - Representations - Performances des SFB 447 "Kulturen des Performativen", Berlin: November 2009.
  • 02/2009: gem. mit Sabine Krüger: "Creativity and encounter with regard to collaborations between artists in theatre and performance art", Internationales Symposium Poetics of the Future der FU Berlin in Kooperation mit der Tel Aviv University, gefördert von der German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Berlin: Februar 2009.

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