Memorizing and reciting poems: A literary perspective

Authors

Texts around Theatre

Manfred Schewe

Manfred Schewe
is Professor Emeritus at University College Cork (UCC). He completed a teacher training course (German, English, History, Educational and Social Sciences) at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in 1981. As a DAAD-/Temporary Full-Time Lecturer he spent five inspiring years in the Department of German at UCC (1982-1987). He then returned to Germany to complete a Drama and Theatre Training course and also his influential PhD research project Fremdsprache inszenieren (1993). In 1994 he took up a permanent position in German at UCC where he paved the way for the SCENARIO PROJECT (https://www.ucc.ie/en/scenario/), consisting of an online journal, a book series and Scenario Forum, an international network of researchers and practitioners. He served as Head of German from 2005 to 2014, and as Head of Theatre from 2016 to 2018. He retired in 2019, but continues to engage in research, give lectures and lead workshops for institutions and associations in different parts of the world.