Regietheater

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Regietheater (“director's theater”).

Noun

Regietheater (uncountable)

1. (theater) The modern practice of allowing a director freedom to diverge from the original intentions of the playwright or operatist, for example by changing the geographical and chronological setting, or by adapting the work to highlight issues of race and gender.
   • 2014 February 28, Rachel Saltz, “It Takes a Funeral: So Much Angst”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     If nothing he [Patrice Chéreau] did for the screen had the genre-shaking impact of his stage work — his 1976 “Ring” cycle at Bayreuth helped usher in an era of Regietheater, or director’s theater — he did raise eyebrows with the sexually explicit “Intimacy” (2001), starring all of Mark Rylance, the corseted Olivia in the “Twelfth Night” that just ended its Broadway run.

See also

• rifacimento

German

Etymology

Regie +‎ Theater

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒiːteˌaːtɐ/

• Audio

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Noun

Regietheater n (strong, genitive Regietheaters, plural Regietheater)

1. (theater) Regietheater (director's theater)
   • 2019 June 13, Anselm Lenz, “„Wir setzen auf Schwarmintelligenz“”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[2], →ISSN, page 3:

     Die 25-jährige Intendanz unter Frank Castorf, bei der Réné Pollesch zur intellektuellen Galionsfigur des Regietheaters avancierte, war in jeder Hinsicht erfolgreich, hatte aber nicht nur Freund*innen.

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Declension

Declension of Regietheater [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Regietheater	die	Regietheater
genitive	eines	des	Regietheaters	der	Regietheater
dative	einem	dem	Regietheater	den	Regietheatern
accusative	ein	das	Regietheater	die	Regietheater

Further reading

• “Regietheater” in Duden online
• “Regietheater” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Regietheater on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de