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POETIC RITUALITY IN THE THEATER AND LITERATURE
Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2019). She is co-editor of an edited volume
on modern art and ritual (Saskia Fischer — Birgit Mayer (eds.): Kunst-Rituale
— Ritual-Kunst. Zur Ritualität von Theater, Literatur und Musik in der Moderne,
Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2019) and, in addition, has published
articles and books on rhythm, ritual, dance, camp literature and holocaust
literature as well as guilt discourse and forgiveness in German literature and
philosophy after 1945.
Jarostaw Fret is a founder and leader of Teatr ZAR, theater director and actor
as well as the Director of the Grotowski Institute. In 1999-2002 he organized
a series of expeditions to Georgia, Armenia, and Iran, conducting research into
the oldest forms of religious music of Eastern Christianity. In the following
years, together with members of Teatr ZAR, he led expeditions to Mount Athos
in Greece, Sardinia, Corsica, Armenia, Turkey, and Israel. He has directed
several performances, concerts, films, and an opera. Teatr ZAR’s Gospels of
Childhood triptych has been seen in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Athens, Belgrade, Edinburgh, Florence, Madrid, Paris, Sibiu, Cairo, New Delhi,
and Seoul. In November 2013 he completed work on Armine, Sister, for which
he developed an original musical dramaturgy and special stage architecture.
In 2016, Medeas. On Getting Across, a performance dedicated to rejections
and migrations, premiered during the Theatre Olympics in Wroclaw, later
presented in Warsaw, Thessaloniki, Madrid, and Paris. He lectures and leads
work sessions in Poland and abroad. His awards and honours include: Best
New Music Theater for Teatr ZAR from “Los Angeles Times” (2009); Wroclaw
Theater Prize for the Gospels of Childhood triptych (2010); the prestigious Total
Theatre Award for Physical/Visual Theatre and the Herald Angel at the Edin¬
burgh Fringe Festival (2012). He has devised and coordinated numerous Polish
and international projects at the Grotowski Institute, including the Grotowski
Year 2009, Masters in Residence, the International Theatre Festival The World
as a Place of Truth, and the Theatre Olympics 2016 in Wroctaw. His efforts led
to the opening, in 2010, of Na Grobli Studio, a new location of the Grotowski
Institute. In 2019, another new venue of the Institute was established: Bakery
| Center for Performing Arts.
Birte Giesler, Dr. habil., Privatdozentin at Bielefeld University, adjunct teacher
at Braunschweig University, and academic staff member at the University of
Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Ph.D. in Germanic studies, Habilitation in literary
and cultural studies. Senior/Lecturer, University of Sydney, Australia, 2005¬
2012; Feodor Lynen Fellowship ofthe Humboldt Foundation; visiting professor
at the University of Lödz, Poland; Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Lit¬
eraturarchiv Marbach / Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar. Re¬
cent publications include: Weibliche Kreativitat um 1800 — Women’s Creativity
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