Dr. Anja Hartl

Conference "Victorian Antipathies", University of Stuttgart, 4-5 November 2022

Conference "Liminal Matters: Textures in 19th-Century Literary and Material Cultures"

Brechtfestival Augsburg 2022 - In Conversation with Artist Zoe Beloff

New Series: Call for Proposals

Open Access: Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today

Academic Positions

Since 10/2019

Assistant Professor (Akademische Mitarbeiterin)
English Literature (Prof. Dr. Christina Wald)
University of Konstanz

2015 - 2019

Lecturer (Akademische Mitarbeiterin)
English Literature (Prof. Dr. Christina Wald)
University of Konstanz

Education

2019

Dr.phil. (summa cum laude)
English Literature, University of Konstanz
Thesis: “Experiential Brecht: Dialectical Theatre on the Contemporary British Stage”

2009 - 2015

First State Exam (Erstes Staatsexamen)
English, French
University of Augsburg and University of Edinburgh

Fellowships, Awards and Grants

2022-2024

Konstanzia Fellowship University of Konstanz

2020

Wissenschaftsförderpreis der Stadt Konstanz (PhD Prize, awarded by the city of Konstanz)

2016 - 2019

Full Doctoral Studentship Award
German National Academic Foundation

2017 - 2018

Mentee of the Mentoring with Experts and international Networking programme (MEiN), University of Konstanz
February/March 2018 Research stay, University of Reading

2017

Research stay, University of Reading
Funded by the German Excellence Initiative, University of Konstanz

2009 - 2014

Full Studentship
Max Weber-Programme of the State of Bavaria

2011 - 2013

Full Studentship
Deutschlandstipendium

Memberships

• German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
• British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
• The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE)
• International Brecht Society (IBS)
• Recherches sur les Arts Dramatiques Anglophones Contemporains (RADAC)
• Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
• Deutscher Anglistenverband

• Post-doc project: Textures of Shame in Victorian Fiction

• Critical edition of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (under contract with Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Student Editions)

• Victorian Fiction, Shame, Affect Theory, (New) Materialism
• Contemporary British Drama; Political Theatre; Ethics in Theatre and Performance
•  Bertolt Brecht
•  Adaptation Studies
•  Shakespeare
•  Border Aesthetics

Monograph

• Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

Editions

• Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Methuen Drama Student Editions. Ed. Anja Hartl. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

• I am also co-editing the new Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Agitations series with William C. Boles (Rollins College).

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

• "Brecht, Brexit and Beyond: An Interview with Simon Stephens." Brecht Yearbook 47 (2022): 6-21.

• "Performing the Border in British Politics and Drama: The Case of David Greig." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 29.1 (2022): 35-51.

• "Experiencing Textures: The Materiality of Illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins's No Name." Victorian Materialisms. Spec. issue of European Journal of English Studies. Eds. Ariane de Waal and Ursula Kluwick. 26.1 (2022): 105-23.
  
   
• "Mark Ravenhill's Dialectical Emotions: 'In-Yer-Face' as Post-Brechtian Theatre." After In-Yer-Face: Remnants of a Theatrical Revolution. Ed. William C. Boles. London: Palgrave, 2020. 71-86.

• "Appropriating the Myth of Macbeth in David Greig's Dunsinane." Shakespeare Seminar Online 16 (2019): 3-14. 

• "'Finstere Zeiten': Post-brechtsche Dialektik im Werk von Caryl Churchill." Bertolt Brecht - zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Studien zu seinem Werk und dessen Rezeption.  Ed. Jürgen Hillesheim. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. 337-57.

• "Recycling Brecht in Britain: David Greig's The Events as Post-Brechtian Lehrstück." Recycling Brecht. Eds. Tom Kuhn, David Barnett and Theodore F. Rippey. Rochester, NY: Camden, 2018. 152-69. The Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 42.

Performance Reviews and Reports

• “‘Staging Contemporary Street Scenes’ – A Workshop by Ann M. Shanahan.” Workshop report. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2020).

• “Alles oder Nichts: Die Tage der Commune am Stadttheater Konstanz.” Rev. of Die Tage der Commune, by Bertolt Brecht, dir. Johanna Schall. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2020).

• "'Musik quillt aus mir': Baal zwischen Theater und Konzert." Rev. of Baal, by Bertolt Brecht, dir. Mareike Mikat. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2019).

• "'Zur Selbstverständigung': Bertolt Brechts Der Untergang des Egoisten Johann Fatzer am Theater Augsburg." Rev. of Der Untergang des Egoisten Johann Fatzer, by Bertolt Brecht, dir. Christian von Treskow. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2019).

• "Agreement and Disagreement: The Decision at Augsburg's Brecht Festival 2017." Rev. of The Decision, by Bertolt Brecht, dir. Selçuk Cara. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2018).

• "'Nur wer im Wohlstand lebt, lebt angenehm!': Bertolt Brechts Dreigroschenoper am Schauspielhaus Zürich." Rev. of Die Dreigroschenoper, by Bertolt Brecht, dir. Tina Lanik. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2018).

• "War and/as Business: Mother Courage and Her Children in the Age of Terrorism and Globalisation at London's Southwark Playhouse." Rev. of Mother Courage and Her Children, by Bertolt Brecht, dir. Hannah Chissick. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2018).

• "A Lesson in Manipulation and an Exercise in Resistance: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at London's Donmar Warehouse." Rev. of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, by Bertolt Brecht, trans. Bruce Norris, dir. Simon Evans. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 2 (2017).

•  "'There's Happiness in Doubting': Brecht's Life of Galileo at London's Young Vic Theatre." Rev. of Life of Galileo, by Bertolt Brecht, trans. John Willett, dir. Joe Wright. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 2 (2017).

• "Recycling The Threepenny Opera: Simon Stephens’s New Translation at London’s National Theatre." Rev. of The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht, trans. Simon Stephens, dir. Rufus Norris. ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society 1 (2017). Reprinted in Kurt Weill Newsletter 34.2 (2016): 6-7.

Book Reviews

•  Rev. of Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity, by Daniela Keller and Ina Habermann, eds. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 70.5 (2022): 467-9.

• Rev. of Die Sprache der Infamie III: Literatur und Scham, by Achim Geisenhanslüke. Germanistik 61.1-2 (2020): 148-9.
   
• Rev. of Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Politics, Affect, Responsibility, by Marissia Fragkou. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 8.2 (2020): 327-31.
   
• Rev. of The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure, by Sarah Grochala. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 7.1 (2019): 149-153.

• Rev. of Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre, by Kara Reilly, ed. Studies in Theatre and Performance. Web.

• Rev. of Anti-War Theatre after Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century, by Lara Stevens. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 6.2 (2018): 363-7.

• Rev. of Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement, by Andy Lavender, and of Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of Today, by Florian Malzacher, ed. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 5.2 (2017): 385-91.

• Rev. of Die Möglichkeit, dass alles auch ganz anders sein könnte: Geschlechterverfremdungen in zeitgenössischen Theatertexten, by Franziska Bergmann. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 4.2 (2016): 448-52.

•  “Learning to See: Shame and the Politics of Visual Perception in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South,” Refractions/Reflections: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing, Victorians Institute, 22-23 October 2021.
• “Affective Mediation: Reading and Experiencing Shame in the Victorian Novel,” Moved by Movement in Novels, University of Mainz, 9-10 September 2021.
• "Shame and Social In/Exclusion in Wilkie Collins's No Name," Victorian Inclusion and Exclusion, 13th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, University of Greenwich, London, 14-16 July 2021.
• “Adaptation as Border-Crossing Strategy in Ali Smith’s Autumn,” Border Narratives – Brexit, Europe, and the UK, University of Göttingen, 5-7 May 2021.
• “Andy Smith’s Agonistic Provocations,” Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic, Charles University Prague, 5-6 February 2021.
• “Performing the Border in British Politics and Drama,” British Borders: Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures, 19-21 November 2020.
• "Performing Brecht in 21^st-Century Britain: Experiential Dialectics," Brecht: Contradiction as a Method, Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), 8-10 November 2019.
• "Britain’s Brecht? John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance," Invited Talk, Charles University, Prague, 7 November 2019.
• Response and Round-Up Discussion, Shakespearean Transections and Translocations: The Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Engagements, Research Workshop, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Konstanz, 14-15 June 2019.
• "Appropriating the Myth of Macbeth in David Greig's Dunsinane," Shakespeare und Übersetzung, Shakespeare-Seminar, Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, 26-28 April 2019.
• "Ethics on Stage," symposium organised with Julia Boll, University of Konstanz, 3 July 2018.
• "Brechts Erbe im britischen Drama des 21. Jahrhunderts: Post-brechtsche Dialektik im Werk von Carly Churchill," Baustelle Brecht / Working with Brecht, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus in Zusammenarbeit mit der International Brecht Society, 23 June 2017.
• "Negativity and Dystopia: Post-Brechtian Dialectics in Caryl Churchill’s 21^st-Century Plays," Postgraduate Colloquium, University of Reading, 7 June 2017.
• "Experiential Brecht: Post-Brechtian Aesthetics in Contemporary British Drama," Postgraduate Symposium, University of Birmingham, 19 May 2017.
• "Post-Brechtian Aesthetics in Contemporary British Drama," Recycling Brecht: 15^th Symposium of the International Brecht Society, University of Oxford, 24-30 June 2016.

Wintersemester 2021/2022:
British Literature and Culture II: Border Narratives
19th-Century Theatre-Fiction: From Jane Austen to Henry James

Summer Semester 2021:
British Literature and Culture I
Of Beggars, Thieves, and Whores: The “Threepenny” Material through the Ages

Winter Semester 2020/21:
British Literature and Culture II

British Romanticism

Summer Semester 2020:
British Literature and Culture I

Shakespeare's Histories

Winter Semester 2019/20:
Feeling the Victorians: Affect in 19th-Century Fiction

The State of the Nation: England in the Literary Imaginary, Past to Present

Summer Semester 2019:
Appropriating Shakespeare

Winter Semester 2018/19:
The Victorian Novel: Between Social Critique and Aesthetic Self-Indulgence

Summer Semester 2018:
Tragedy through the Ages: Sophocles, Shakespeare and Beyond

Winter Semester 2017/18:
Terror(ism) on Stage

Summer Semester 2017:
Shakespeare - Then and Now

Winter Semester 2016/17:
From Jane Eyre to Dorian Gray: Coming of Age in Victorian England

Summer Semester 2016:
British Political Drama since 1990

Winter Semester 2015/16:
Brecht and Britain – 60 Years of British Epic Theatre