Artistic Research and Music Theatre Initiative
In 2017, the "Artistic Research Music Initiative" was launched at fimt. While the concept of musical theater has experienced an enormous opening in recent decades - away from the restriction to opera and operetta to popular forms such as musicals and casting shows, as well as carnivals, soccer world cups and 'every day performances' - the concept of artistic research still awaits a consensual definition. The very question of how to designate the methodological project raises questions: What is the most appropriate term? In the English-speaking world, where methodology is already much more widespread, the following terms circulate: Artistic Research? Practice-as-research? Practice-based-research? Performance-led-research? The fimt has chosen a working definition and titled the project 'Artistic Research'. This implies that at the end of such artistic research there are two results: an artistic 'product' (to avoid the deliberately misleading and ideologically charged term 'work') as well as scientific knowledge, which does not only exist immaterially, as 'conceptless knowledge', but can be materialized quite concretely - be it as text or multimedia publication.
The topic of artistic research is present in many teaching and research formats at the fimt. The following projects have been carried out so far:
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Summer term 2017 |
Masters seminar: Reenactment, direction Dominik Frank, final-presentation |
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September 2017 |
Reenactment L’Humaine Comédie: Le Ballet de la Raillerie, baroque dance theatre in new castle Bayreuth with students from “music theatre”(B.A.) and “music and performance” (M.A.), direction Silvia Bier, Dominik Frank. |
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Winter term 2017/2018 |
Masters seminar Künstlerische Forschung: Theorie (Artistic Research: Theory), direction Anno Mungen, Dominik Frank. |
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November 2017 |
Performance Muschigenuschel by Julia Fleiner and Christine Stein. |
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December 2017 |
Guest lecture Nicola Müllers (mezzo-soprano): Only my extended voice, Lecture-Performance in “Ahnensaal” castle Thurnau. |
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February 2018 |
Performance and master thesis Schleierkraut by Julia Fleiner. |
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Summer term 2018 |
Masters seminar Künstlerische Forschung: Praxis (Artistic Research: Practice), direction Anno Mungen, Dominik Frank, final-festival Ahnen: presentation of studentical projects A Newstime Musical, Wagner 100, Intercultural Pleasure, Abschlusskonzert |
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July 2018 |
Publication: Anno Mungen / Dominik Frank (publishers.): Künstlerische Forschung im Kontext des Musiktheaters (= ACT. Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance 8 (Artistic Research in context of music theatre (=ACT. magazine for music and performance)), Thurnau 2018. |
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September 2018 |
Lecture-performance Stürme von Beifall (storms of applause) for the exhibition Hitler.Macht.Oper (Hitler.Power.Opera) in NS-documentation centre Nürnberg, by and with Dominik Frank, Amelie Haller, Daniel Reupke, Christina Rings. Publication: Dominik Frank, Amélie Haller, Daniel Reupke, ,Stürme von Beifall‘(,storms of applause‘) – report for the reenactment for the exhibition Hitler.Macht.Oper, in: Hitler.Macht.Oper. Propaganda und Musiktheater in Nürnberg 1920–1950 (Hitler.Power.Opera.Propaganda and music theatre in Nürnberg, 1920-1950), published by Silvia Bier, Tobias Reichhard, Daniel Reupke and Anno Mungen, Würzburg 2020, p.497–546. |
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October 2019 |
Lecture and presentation Artistic Research methodic to explore playing styles and performance traditions, Dominik Frank for the conference of the “International Feuchtwanger Society” (in cooperation with Marie-Sophie Ernst, Bayerische Theaterakademie) Publication: Dominik Frank: „,In Kunstdingen nicht die geringste Lässigkeit' – Feuchtwangs dramatischer Stil im Spiegel seiner Entstehungszeit.“ In: Tamara Fröhler / Andreas Heusler (Hrsg.): Feuchtwanger und München. Bern 2022 [in appearing.] |
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January 2020 |
Workshop and presentation: Wagner as a spoken piece (Walküre, act III); in cooperation with Landestheater Coburg for the symposium Wagner-perspectives: Visuelle Aspekte des Gesamtkunstwerks (visual aspects of the synthesis of the arts); direction: Julia Fleiner, Dominik Frank |
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February 2020 |
Workshop Naked or nude?, direction: Julia Fleiner, Dominik Frank Publication: Julia Fleiner, Dominik Frank: „Naked or nude in the Ahnensaal. Or: AR meanders“, in: Offen gedacht: Musiktheater. Festschrift für Anno Mungen zum 60. Geburtstag, published by Silvia Bier and Marie-Anne Kohl, Münster / New York 2021, p. 357– 367. |
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Summer term 2021 |
Masters seminar Artistic Research (focus on memorial culture and jubilees) and final-festival Ahnen II: Als wäre nichts gewesen.(Ahnen II: as if nothing had happened) |
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since July 2021 |
DFG-Erkenntnistransferprojekt Wagnergesang im 21. Jahrhundert – historisch informiert (wagner singing in 21th century-historically informed), in cooperation with Concerto Köln and Kent Nagano [https://www.wagnergesang.uni-bayreuth.de/de/index.html] |
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September 2021 |
Reenactment Wagner-Declamation: Das Rheingold as a spoken piece (with Amélie Haller) |
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November 2021 |
Concert performances Das Rheingold historically informed performance practice in Cologne and Amsterdam Publication: Anno Mungen, Dominik Frank: „Zum historisch informierten Wagnergesang“. („to historically informed Wagner singing”) In: programm booklet Das Rheingold, by Kölner Philharmonie, Köln 2021, p.14 –17. |