Between the Carnivalesque and the Solemn
Im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts "Theatrale Aushandlungen interreligiösen oder interkonfessionellen Zusammenlebens. Deutschsprachige Esther-Dramen des 16. Jahrhunderts" findet ein internationaler Workshop zu Esther-Darstellungen in der Frühen Neuzeit statt.
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/tagungen/esther-workshop
- Between the Carnivalesque and the Solemn
- 2026-08-19T00:00:00+02:00
- 2026-08-22T23:59:59+02:00
- Im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts "Theatrale Aushandlungen interreligiösen oder interkonfessionellen Zusammenlebens. Deutschsprachige Esther-Dramen des 16. Jahrhunderts" findet ein internationaler Workshop zu Esther-Darstellungen in der Frühen Neuzeit statt.
Wann
19.08.2026 bis 22.08.2026 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Wo
Gießen, AvH-Gästehaus
Name des Kontakts
Telefon des Kontakts
Teilnehmer
Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl, Karina R. Fischer
Termin zum Kalender hinzufügen
Programm:
| Mi 19.08.2026 | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 14:30-15:15 | Helge Bezold (Frankfurt/M.): Between the Carnivalesque and the Solemn: The Biblical Book of Esther in Recent Exegetical Scholarship |
| 15:15-16:00 (online) |
Chanita Goodblatt (Beer-Sheva): The Literary Carnivalesque: Scriptures, Subversion and Sexuality in Early Modern English and Yiddish Drama |
| 16:20-18:05 | Elisabeth Dutton (Freiburg i.Üe.) and Perry Mills (Stratford-upon-Avon): Film presentation Double-Bill (The Edward's Boys): The Enterlude of Godly Queen Hester (c. 1529) and Purim Spil |
| 18:05-18:45 | Discussion. |
| Do 20.08.2026 | |
| 09:30-10:15 | Nina Niedermeier (Augsburg): Repudiated, Disfigured, Executed. The Various Fates of Vasthi in Jewish and Christian Art of Northern Italy |
| 10:15-11:00 | Anaelie Rossi (Saint Martin d'Hères): Architectures of Devotion. Performing Esther from Venice to the Reformation Stage |
| 11:30-12:15 | Cora Dietl (Gießen): The Carnivalesque as Regional Identification Offer in Caspar Wolf's Esther Play |
| 12:15-13:00 | Andreas Lehnardt (Mainz): Purimspil and Aggada. On the Reception of Medieval Bible Exegeses in Jewish Amateur Theatre |
| 15:00-17:00 | Olaf Schneider (Gießen): Guided Tour through the Special Collections of the University Library. |
| 18:00-19:30 | Theatre Group of the German Department (Gießen): Performance of Caspar Wolf's "Comoedia Esther" (Margarete-Bieber-Saal, Ludwigstraße 34) |
| Fr 21.08.2026 | |
| 09:00-09:45 | Evi Michels (Tübingen): The Yiddish Esther Song by Gumbrecht of Szczebrzyn from Venice, ca. 1555 as the Oldest "Purim Play" |
| 09:45-10:30 | Sonya Yampolskaya (Freiburg i.Üe.): The Role of Women in the Play of Mordiche and Esther (Amsterdam, 1718) |
| 11:00-11:45 | Karina R. Fischer (Gießen): Solemn and Didactic: The Book of Esther in Sixteenth-Century Christian Drama. |
| 11:45-12:30 | Final discussion |