caa a22 4500 388109963 CHVBK 20180307125351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300020794 doi S0307883300020794 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300020794 Fischer-Lichte Erika Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin, and was President of the International Federation for Theatre Research (1995-9) From Text to Performance: The Rise of Theatre Studies as an Academic Discipline in Germany [Elektronische Daten] [Erika Fischer-Lichte] In the course of the 1990s, a new paradigm in cultural studies seems to have arisen. In the humanities, the metaphor of ‘culture as text' held true until the late 1980s; culture as a whole and different cultural phenomena were understood and interpreted as structural sequences composed of single elements (signs) to which a particular meaning can be attributed. In the 1990s, however, the focus of interest shifted to the processes of making, producing, creating, doing and to the actions, processes of exchange, negotiation and transformation as well as to the dynamics which constitute the agents of these processes, the materials they use and the cultural events they produce. Thus, it seems that the metaphor of ‘culture as performance' is gaining ground. Whereas the humanities prevailingly dealt with texts and monuments as the results, manifestations and greatest achievements of modern European culture, they are now concerned with all kinds of performative processes which are, by their very nature, bodily processes. Thus, it seems that the discovery of the performative nowadays directs the humanities and cultural studies in particular. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/2(1999), 168-178 0307-8833 24:2<168 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020794 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020794 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fischer-Lichte Erika Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin, and was President of the International Federation for Theatre Research (1995-9) NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/2(1999), 168-178 0307-8833 24:2<168 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge