Professor David Peimer
About Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
David’s lectures (201)
Date
Title
7 January
Jean-Paul Sartre: Antisemite and Jew
14 January
Édith Piaf (the 'Little Sparrow'): Remarkable Life, Remarkable Singer
21 January
Understanding Transylvania: Myths and Legends- Dracula and Others
28 January
Art Garfunkel: Grandchild of Romania
31 January
Elie Wiesel: The Voice of the Romanian Holocaust
11 February
Goethe’s Faust
18 February
The Grimm Brothers
25 February
Friedrich Schiller: What Made him as Great as Goethe?
4 March
Henrich Heine: 'One of the Most Remarkable Men and Poets of Our Age'- George Eliot
11 March
Kafka: A Prophet of his Time
18 March
German Poets of World War 1: A Contrast to the British Poets?
25 March
WWI Films: All Quiet on the Western Front and Other Films
1 April
Satire vs. Evil, Part 1: Kurt Weil/Brecht, Hitler's Mein Kampf
8 April
Satire vs. Evil, Part 2: Kurt Weil/Brecht, Cabaret, and Others
15 April
Goebbels: The Propaganda Genius of the 20th Century?
22 April
Can Film Represent the Holocaust?
29 April
"It is Barbaric to Write Poetry After Auschwitz" - Theodor Arno. Is Arno Correct?
8 May
The Filmic Genius of Leni Riefenstahl: Art, Camera, Propaganda and Germany
13 May
Albert Speer: The Repentant Nazi
20 May
The Great Director Fritz Lang: In Germany and Hollywood
27 May
Post-War Renaissance in German Film: Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders
3 June
Milton’s Paradise Lost: Is it “of the devil's party,” as William Blake suggests?
17 June
Byron, Keats, Shelley: A Poetic Feast
24 June
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake: A Taster From Three Greats
1 July
Charles Dickens: Sentimentalist or Social Commentator?
8 July
Oscar Wilde: Satire, Irony, Brilliant Wit
15 July
Dylan Thomas: Great Poet or Overrated Alcoholic Wordsmith ?
22 July
T.S. Eliot: Visionary Poetry, Ordinary Prejudices
29 July
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5 August
James Bond
12 August
Barbra Streisand
19 August
My Fair Lady
26 August
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
9 September
D.H. Lawrence
23 September
George Orwell and the Fatal Fascination with Fascism
7 October
Cry, the Beloved Country
11 October
The Nobel Prize: History and Notable Winners of the Prize for Literature from the ‘Global South’
14 October
The Film 'Zulu': How History Becomes Myth in National Identity
21 October
Johnny Clegg: Le Zulu Blanc: A Remarkable South African Musician and Anthropologist, Part 1 (with Special Guest Jesse Clegg)
22 October
Johnny Clegg: Le Zulu Blanc: A Remarkable South African Musician and Anthropologist, Part 2 (with Special Guest Jesse Clegg)
26 October
Roger Federer: What Makes a Hero Today?
28 October
Perspectives on Jung Today: His Life and Ideas, Part 1
4 November
Perspectives on Jung Today: His Life and Ideas, Part 2
11 November
Cowboy Characters in the Movies: American Myths and Archetypes
18 November
Why You've Got to Love Mark Twain!
25 November
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman: Moments of Vision
3 December
Edgar Allan Poe: The Mysterious World of the Mind
9 December
Damon Runyon: Romanticising New York Hustlers and Gangsters with Such Charm
16 December
Hemingway: A Man, A Writer, of His Time and Our Time
23 December
Oscar Hammerstein II: A Giant of the American Musical
30 December
The Marx Brothers and Jewish Humour: Genius and Outsider