Erwin Piscator

Erwin Piscator
Potret Piscator, ca 1927
Lahir	Erwin Friedrich Max Piscator (1893-12-17)17 Desember 1893 Greifenstein-Ulm, Kekaisaran Jerman
Meninggal	30 Maret 1966(1966-03-30) (umur 72) Starnberg, Jerman Barat
Pendidikan	Gimnasium Philippinum (1907) Universitas Munich
Pekerjaan	Pengarah teater, produser
Dikenal atas	Mendirikan Dramatic Workshop di The New School for Social Research (1940).
Karya terkenal	The Political Theatre (1929)
Gaya	Teater epik, teater dokumenter
Suami/istri	Hildegard Jurczyk (m. 1919)[1] Maria Ley (m. 1937)
Pasangan	Bertolt Brecht
Kerabat	Johannes Piscator
Tanda tangan
Penghargaan (1953) Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen (en) Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (en)

Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 Desember 1893 – 30 Maret 1966) adalah seorang pengarah dan produser teater Jerman. Bersama dengan Bertolt Brecht, ia menjadi pakar terdepan teater epik, sebuah bentuk yang memajukan unsur sosio-politik dari drama, alih-alih manipulasi emosional penonton atau keindahan produksi.^[2]

• Piscator, Erwin. 1929. The Political Theatre. A History 1914–1929. Translated by Hugh Rorrison. New York: Avon, 1978. ISBN 978-0-380401-88-8 (= London: Methuen, 1980. ISBN 978-0-413335-00-5).
• The ReGroup Theatre Company (ed.): The "Lost" Group Theatre Plays. Volume 3. The House of Connelly, Johnny Johnson, & Case of Clyde Griffiths. By Paul Green and Erwin Piscator. Prefaces by Judith Malina & William Ivey Long. New York, NY: CreateSpace, 2013. ISBN 978-1-484150-13-9.
• Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Adapted for the Stage by Alfred Neumann, Erwin Piscator, and Guntram Prüfer. English adaptation by Robert David MacDonald. Preface by Bamber Gascoigne. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1963.

• Connelly, Stacey Jones. Forgotten debts: Erwin Piscator and the epic theatre. Bloomington: Indiana University 1991.
• Innes, Christopher D. Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre: the Development of Modern German Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1972.
• Ley-Piscator, Maria. The Piscator Experiment. The Political Theatre. New York: James H. Heineman 1967. ISBN 0-8093-0458-9.
• Malina, Judith. The Piscator Notebook. London: Routledge Chapman & Hall 2012. ISBN 0-415-60073-1.
• McAlpine, Sheila. Visual Aids in the Productions of the First Piscator-Bühne, 1927–28. Frankfurt, Bern, New York etc.: Lang 1990.
• Probst, Gerhard F. Erwin Piscator and the American Theatre. New York, San Francisco, Bern etc. 1991.
• Rorrison, Hugh. Erwin Piscator: Politics on the Stage in the Weimar Republic. Cambridge, Alexandria VA 1987.
• Wannemacher, Klaus. Moving Theatre Back to the Spotlight: Erwin Piscator’s Later Stage Work. In: The Great European Stage Directors. Vol. 2. Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht. Ed. by David Barnett. London etc.: Bloomsbury (Methuen Drama) 2018, pp. 91–129. ISBN 1-474-25411-X.
• Willett, John. The Theatre of Erwin Piscator: Half a Century of Politics in the Theatre. London: Methuen 1978. ISBN 0-413-37810-1.

• Erwin Piscator di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• Website on Erwin Piscator, including "Annotated Erwin Piscator Bibliography" with more than 1300 title entries (German)
• Erwin Piscator Papers, 1930–1971 Diarsipkan 2020-11-25 di Wayback Machine. at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center
• Information on the annual Erwin Piscator Award
• (Inggris) Photo of Piscator di Find a Grave