BCB Professor of Theater and Performance Nina Tecklenburg publishes the English translation of her book Performing Stories: Narrative as Performance

BCB Professor of Theater and Performance Nina Tecklenburg has published the English translation of her book Performing Stories: Narrative as Performance (Seagull Books). Her study proposes a transdisciplinary perspective on contemporary narrative performances through new approaches relevant to performance studies, performance practice, narrative and cultural theory, literary criticism, game and video studies.

Tecklenburg’s Performing Stories: Narrative as Performance is a foundational book on narrative in and as performance. The book was translated by William Locke Wheeler. Tecklenburg’s focus lies on narration less as literary composition than as sensate, embodied cultural practice—a participatory and open process that fosters social relationships. She gives central importance to the forces of narration that create and undo culture and politics.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte, university professor of theater research at the Free University of Berlin, says that the book is “not only an outstanding research achievement but also a gripping read… a highly original and innovative theoretical exploration in contemporary theater studies.” 

Praise for the German original (published at transcript, 2. edition 2016):
‘One special merit of the book is how its reassessment of terminology interrogates and dismantles frozen dichotomies that have led foremost to the exclusion of narrative theory from certain fields of scholarship… Tecklenburg’s book is a vastly important and long overdue contribution to both contemporary narrative theory and theater studies.’—Elke Huwiler

Performing Stories: Narrative as Performance can be purchased on Seagull Books and The University of Chicago Press websites. 

Post Date: 10-07-2022