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Im Folgenden werde ich [...] das moderne Theater aus mediologischer Warte perspektivieren, wobei ich in drei Schritten vorgehe. Zunächst wird es mir darum gehen, Johann Christoph Gottscheds Reform des Theaters als Zurichtung dieser Kunstform für das Gutenberg-Zeitalter zu skizzieren. Wenigstens hindeuten möchte ich sodann auf Lessings, Goethes und Schillers Ansätze zu einer Reflexion der medialen 'Verfasstheit des Theaters, um schließlich die volle Ausbildung eines modernen Medientheaters in Ludwig Tiecks Märchenkomödie "Der gestiefelte Kater" aufzuzeigen.
Theatre constitutes a form of collective creativity. This idea is not as self-evident as one might expect. To some extent the collective Character of this art form had to be rediscovered over the course of the twentieth century, as theatre emancipated itself from the primacy of the literary text and thus from the primacy of the author. In fact, the collective character of this art form was fully brought into view again only with the debates about a post-dramatic theatre of the last few decades. In this essay I will tum back to the point in cultural history when literature started to dominate theatre and when the supremacy accorded the author began to annul theatre's collective character. This paradigmatic shift in the evolution of theatre occurred during the eighteenth century, and it is represented primarily by Johann Christoph Gottsched. In the following I will investigate Gottsched's efforts to reform the theatre of his age from a mediological point of view.