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Dr. Diego Rotman

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Dr. Jan Kühne

Dr. Jan Kühne is a theater and literature scholar in the field of modern German and German-Jewish drama, theater, and cultural history. His research interests include the poetics of multilingual performances, the history of theater studies, Shoah drama, political performativity, and traditions of the comic on stage.

Dr. Kühne is the author of two books: ”’A Multi-Tragic Paradigm' – 'Nathan the Wise' in Israel” (2011), and ”Die zionistische Komödie im Drama Sammy Gronemanns“ (2020). He serves as chief-editor to the critical edition of collected works by the German-Jewish dramatist and Zionist leader Sammy Gronemann (1875-1952).

At the Hebrew University Dr. Kühne has taught courses on Classic German Drama and Theater, on theories of Performance, and post-Shoah German drama and poetry. This year he teaches an introduction to Modern European Drama.

In 2019 Dr. Kühne organized an international workshop on ”States of Performance“, and in 2020, he has initiated and participated in the first Hebrew production of Viktor Frankl’s play Synchronisation in Birkenwald (Dir. Shimon Levy), in which he also took part in translating.

In 2019/20, Dr. Kühne has been an associate research and artist fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, in the ”Interrupting Kafka: Research Laboratory for Scholarship and Artistic Creativity“, organized by Prof. Ruth Kanner and Prof. Freddie Rokem.

 

Together with Prof. Freddie Rokem Dr. Kühne serves as co-editor of a forthcoming issue of Performance Research, dedicated to the subject of Interruption.

 

 

Other publications include:

“The German Archive of the Hebrew Habima: Bureaucracy and Identity” (Co-Author: Shelly Zer-Zion), in Naharaim 7.1-2 (2013), pp. 239-260.

“Of the Two the Jew is – (Curtain falls.)” — Sammy Gronemann’s Dramaturgy of the German-Jewish Encounter in Mandate-Palestine/Israel (1936-1952), in Jewish Culture and History 17.1 (2016), pp. 254-274.

“A Parable of three Languages.”Nathan der Weise” in Arabic, Hebrew, and German,” in Lessing Yearbook XLV (2018), 93–111.

מלאך שחור ביער לבנים. על ״סינכרוניזציה בבירקנוואלד״ מאת ויקטור פרנקל. תיאטרון 46 (2019), ע׳ 24-62.

„Das zionistische Drama“, in Handbuch „Orte und Räume“ (Hrsg. Primus-Heinz Kucher, Alexandra Strohmaier), forthcoming 2022.