Sara Hammerzmith

WHAT IS DRAMATURGY?

Dramaturgy, the term comes from the german dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lezzing. The term was invented between the years of 1767-1770 when he wrote a series of criticizing papers about Hamburg Dramaturgy where he analyzed, criticized and theorized the german theatre.

Yeah… It could also be, when it comes to media, how a medium (TV, Magazine, Radio) build up their stories to create a dramatic scene to keep the readers interested. They usually talk about four different staging.

The first one is the dramatic one, where the medium generally makes the news a sensation and playing alot on what just happened and to make the reader feel like they are a part of it.

The second staging is the lyrical staging, where you play more on the emotional and ceremonial touch of it, but instead of even having an ounce of report in what happened, it just tells you the emotional part.

The third one is epic staging, where you frame something and makes it bigger in an already big event, like, the sensational news about Azerbaijan winning, you as well bring forward about the situation down there.

The fourth and last one is didactic staging, which is completly different to the three previous ones, since this one is the one that focuses more on the information itself, and stays scientific, logical and clean without any personal perspective.

With this we can… No okay.

Yeah. This is what I learnt today while working with my group at school, we are close to be done really! I’d like to go more into dramaturgy, since I somewhat find it interesting, but I don’t wanna spoil what we have accomplished in our group so far until we have officially presented it which we will do on thursday.

This is also the reason I’ve been so off. No, not dramaturgy or narratology per se, but studying over all. Soon done with the first year, and that feels pretty awesome.  Now I shall go and get ready for the movienight I’ll have with Martina and some more friends. But then again, Whattowear?!?!?!?

NP: Bloody Mary – Lady Gaga
// Sara
Sources:
Dramaturgy on Wikipedia
“Seendets språk – exempel från konst,reklam,nyhetsförmedling och semiotisk teori” written by Hasse Hansson, Sten-Gösta Karlsson and Gert Z Nordström, p. 130 forward, edition 1:4 2006

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