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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 Edinburgh 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, 20052012; Feodor Lynen Fellowship ofthe Humboldt Foundation; visiting professor at the University of Lödz, Poland; Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach / Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar. Recent publications include: Weibliche Kreativitat um 1800 — Women’s Creativity + 280 +
