Talk:Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer (American premiere)

Merge proposal

In response to the request that this should be merged with Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer:

This page was originally part of Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer from which I separated out the content regarding the Amercian Premiere and re-published it here on its own page.

Reasons being:

1) The content regarding specifically the American Premiere is unproportionally large compared to the actuall subject matter of the play, its histroy and importance. There are three photos alone for this single production

2) The American Premiere is in itself only characteristic for a specific part of the overall reception history of the play which is quite disparately split between stage productions in the style of the epic theatre (like the Amrican Premiere), extremely experimental productions out of theatre buildings using the text in fragments and pieces over long periods of time (FatzerMaterial, MassakerMykaene), university research projects and international youth projetcs (in the light that Brecht reflects theatre in the Lehrstuecke context as being for practising participants, rather than to be staged for an audience, even though this is not excluded). In light of Fatzer text specifically it is actually the theoretical parts included in it which suggest and elaborate on alternative, off-stage praxis. In this sense it seems important to give alternative productions at least equal place as staged productions.

In this respect it makes sense that the American Premiere gets its own page, but it wouldn't be representative in this length on the central page about the play.— Preceding unsigned comment added by BGX (talk • contribs) 12:18, 18 June 2010

As no one else is supporting the proposed merger, I am removing the banner. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:10, 12 July 2011 (UTC)