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Author: Barbara Bollig

Barbara Bollig holds a B.Ed and M.Ed in German and English, as well as a MA in English Literatures and Media from the University of Trier. She read English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, as an Erasmus student in the academic year 2014/15 and is currently pursuing a PhD in German Literature at the FernUniversität in Hagen. Her current research is on the Medea myth, theories of mythologization, and the cultural implications of the Medea narrative in various research fields and within German literature since the Enlightenment. She is part of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik and the CePoG (the Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies) at the University of Trier. Barbara has given conference papers on remythifications of the Medea story, the perpetuation of colonial stereotypes in contemporary literary depictions of the so-called European “refugee crisis”, and strategies of female empowerment in literature. Barbara can be contacted on barbara.bollig@cantab.net or via twitter @bb_478

Simon Stone’s Medea at the Barbican, London

9th March 20199th March 2019  Barbara Bollig

Simon Stone’s Medea, performed by the International Theatre Amsterdam, is a bold, masterful juxtaposition of Euripidean and Contemporary Tragedy, says our arts contributor Barbara Bollig.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Barbican, Barbican Centre, Debora Green, Euripides, Greek Mythology, International Theatre Amsterdam, Lorena Bobbit, Medea, Myth, Simon Stone, Theatre

Beware of Medea – [not] an apology

11th December 201811th December 2018  Barbara Bollig

Barbara Bolig explores the various retellings of the Medea myth and asks if it’s possible to sympathise with one of mythology’s darkest female protagonists.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Film and Media, TheatreTagged: Film, Greek Mythology, Klinger, Loher, Medea, Myth, Pasolini, Waterhouse
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