dramaturge

English

Etymology

• Definition 1: Borrowed from French dramaturge.
• Definition 2: Borrowed from German Dramaturg.

Noun

dramaturge (plural dramaturges)

1. (rare, theater) Someone who writes or adapts theater plays, a playwright, dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.

   Synonym: dramaturgist

2. (rare, theater) A literary adviser or editor in a theater, opera, or film company that researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work.

   Synonym: dramaturg

Related terms

• dramaturgic
• dramaturgical
• dramaturgically
• dramaturgist
• dramaturgy

Translations

playwright

• Finnish: näytelmäkirjailija (fi)
• French: dramaturge (fr)
• German: Bühnenautor (de) m, Dramatiker (de) m, Schauspieldichter, Stückeschreiber
• Greek: δραματουργός (el) m or f (dramatourgós)
• Polish: dramaturg (pl) m, dramaturżka f, dramatopisarz (pl) m, dramatopisarka (pl) f
• Romanian: dramaturg (ro)
• Spanish: dramaturgo (es) m
• Volapük: (epicene) dramatavan (vo), (male) hidramatavan, (female) hidramatavan

literary adviser or editor

• Czech: dramaturg m
• Finnish: dramaturgi (fi)
• German: Dramaturg (de) m, Dramaturgin (de) f
• Hebrew: מחזאי (he) m (makhazai), מחזאית f (makhazayt)

Verb

dramaturge (third-person singular simple present dramaturges, present participle dramaturging, simple past and past participle dramaturged)

1. (transitive, intransitive, rare, theater) To act as a dramaturge.
   • 2020 June 9, Michael Paulson, “Theater Artists Decry Racism in Their Industry”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It expresses concerns about programming (“We have watched you program play after play, written, directed, cast, choreographed, designed, acted, dramaturged and produced by your rosters of white theatermakers for white audiences”); […]

Further reading

• “dramaturge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δραματουργός (dramatourgós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁa.ma.tyʁʒ/

Noun

dramaturge m or f by sense (plural dramaturges)

1. (theater) playwright (writer of plays for the theatre)

Related terms

• dramaturgie
• dramaturgique

Descendants

• dramatij

Further reading

• “dramaturge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.