El teatro total de Erwin Piscator como herramienta audiovisual inmersiva revolucionaria: el paradigma de Hoppla, Wir Leben! (1927) = Erwin Piscator’s total theatre as a revolutionary immersive audiovisual tool: the paradigm of Hoppla, Wir Leben! (1927)
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This article explores the immersive dimension of the increasingly
fashionable dialogue between theatre and film. It is a dialogue that
can in fact be traced back to the very origins of cinema, and that has
continued right down to the present day in the form of all kinds of
experiments incorporating the techniques and technologies of each
era. A key turning point in this relationship would take place in Germany’s Weimar Republic, a very specific socio-political context in
which the use of the cinematic image on stage and its immersive potential would be vested with revolutionary overtones. It was the director Erwin Piscator who systematised the use of film as a cohesive
element in an ideal of total theatre profoundly connected to historical
avant-garde movements and placed at the service of Marxist ideology. This would make of him an important link in the chain running
from the pre-cinematic era right down to contemporary political and
documentary theatre, as his work would begin to exhibit a set of characteristics—starting in particular with the production Hoppla, We’re
Alive! [Hoppla, Wir Leben!] (Ernst Toller, 1927)—that would leave and
indelible mark on the interaction between the stage and the screens