Autor: Alexander Weikmann

Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language.

– Kristin Linklater –

// Knowing how to connect language with breath and voice is a golden key to hang on the chain of the actor’s craft!

Linklater’s groundbreaking original Freeing the Natural Voice sold more than 100,000 copies. Now, revised and greatly expanded this edition has been eagerly adopted by Linklater students, selling 30,000 copies to date. Emphasizing the use of imagery and imagination in developing the art of the voice, this book incorporates exercises developed over the past three decades that have stood the test of repetition, reliably producing results when practiced conscientiously and with understanding.

The logical progression of exercises is designed for professional actors, student actors, teachers of acting, teachers of voice and speech and anyone interested in vocal expression.

The emphasis of the work is on the removal of the physical and psychological blocks that inhibit the human vocal instrument and its objective is a voice in direct contact with emotional impulse, shaped by the intellect but not restricted by it.

This book presents a lucid and multi-leveled account of the human voice in the context of performance – expressive theatrical performance and the performance of everyday communication.

(Nick Hern Books, 2006)

The actor’s guide to talking the text

– Kristin Linklater –

// Taking many of the techniques explored in her international bestseller „Freeing the Natural Voice“, in this companion volume Kristin Linklater shows how to apply them to the speaking of Shakespeare’s language. Beginning with exercises designed to break long-held habits and allow an emotional rather than intellectual relationship to Elizabethan language, she analyses Shakespeare’s strategies for creating character, story and meaning through figures of speech, iambic pentameter, rhyme and the alternation of verse and prose. Using copious examples from the plays, Linklater offers her readers the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare’s words their own. First published in the US in 1992, this is the first UK edition of this invaluable guide to speaking Shakespeare.

(Nick Hern Books, 2010)

Entfaltung und Pflege eines natürlichen Instruments

– Kristin Linklater –

(aus dem Englischen von Michael Petermann und Irmela Beyer)

// Psychische oder physiologische Blockaden können die freie Entfaltung der Stimme behindern. Wer lernen will, die ganze Vielfalt seiner Gefühle und Gedanken stimmlich auszudrücken, ist mit Kristin Linklaters Stimmtraining bestens bedient. Es setzt an bei körperlicher Entspannung und Achtsamkeit und führt über eine Vielfalt von Vorstellungsbildern dazu, die Ausdrucksfähigkeit der Stimme als natürliches Instrument zu entdecken und zu pflegen. Das intensive Übungsprogramm ist in der 5. Auflage umfangreich überarbeitet. Egal ob für die Bühne, andere Sprechberufe oder für die Alltagskommunikation: Mit dem Linklater-Training machen Sie aus Ihrer Stimme, was sie ist – ein Meisterwerk der Natur.

(Ernst Reinhardt Verlag München, 2019)