Professor David Peimer
WWI Poetry
Summary
Professor David Peimer discusses and shows several examples of the poetry that came out of World War I, both from soldiers as well as those left at home.
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.
Yeah, I think they all were affected by the war. Not necessarily that Sassoon wrote all the poems only about war afterwards. I mean, he lived into the late ‘60s, but absolutely affected. Sassoon was actually shot in the head, and it’s one of the reasons why he was in Edinburgh as well. You know, as that a centre of recovery.
No, German. These are all translations. And Max Brod published it, obviously in German.