O “Pamiętniku Teatralnym”. Rozważania na 60-lecie

• Authors: Dobrochna Ratajczak

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About Pamiętnik Teatralny On Its Sixtieth Anniversary

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The text is an attempt at recapitulating the sixty-year history of Pamiętnik Teatralny, the first Polish theatrological periodical, and showing its place and role in Polish theatre studies. Through all these years, a lot of things have changed. For one, theatrology, non-existent at the time the periodical was established, has flourished and developed in many directions; universities have formulated curricula for the courses of study in the field; but most of all, as a result of changes affecting the humanities in general, the function and importance of theatre history have changed. It no longer encompasses the whole, extensive field of theatrology, and the tradition and traditional kinds of research are not universally accepted. The situation called for taking a closer look at the periodical which was meant to become the foundation Polish theatre studies, starting with its tell-tale title. Its significance was paramount, since it enabled the founders to define the horizon of the periodical, its field of research, and to determine the norm and research formula which made Pamiętnik Teatralny a kind of “external memory” not for the theatre medium but rather for theatre art. The article recounts actions of three consecutive editorial boards focusing mostly on programmatic enunciations of the editors in chief: Leon Schiller, the tandem of Bohdan Korzeniewski and Zbigniew Raszewski, and Edward Krasiński. The periodical’s programme stemmed from the modernist traditions and visions of the interwar period. The founding myth of Pamiętnik Teatralny and of the Polish theatre studies as well, comes from Leon Schiller, and his successors have remained faithful to that myth. Schiller envisaged a highly modernist formula of theatre history as an autonomous inquiry, devoted to research on great auratic art created in institutional theatre. The major goal was to prepare a synthetic history of the Polish stage, and all individual issues, whether of monographic or review character, were to serve that purpose. Thanks to the canon of values, research approaches, subjects and problems, the artistic phenomena and artists that became “heroes” of the monographic issues, Pamiętnik Teatralny has become a solid, uniform periodical of almost monolithic dimensions, untouched by some exceptions that appeared along the way. Despite the fact that the whole system worked well in the previous years, it seems that it now needs rethinking. The sixtieth anniversary is an excellent occasion to make such an effort.

Keywords

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Polish theatrology; theatre studies; theatrology

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 1-2(241-242)
• Pages: 5-31

Contributors

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Dobrochna Ratajczak

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu