Journal Article

Renegotiating the Canon: Scenes of German/ic Theatre(s) – Editors’ Note

Sharifi, Azadeh, Otto, Ulf

2023

Overview

Walter Benjamin citing Bertolt Brecht, Versuche über Brecht 1966 German Theatre is both a successful brand and an institution in crisis – often praised for its unique and diverse landscape, at least when it comes to the state, city, national, private, independent and community theatres that have flourished in the 20th and 21st centuries, thanks to extensive state subsidies. Anselm Heinrich’s articlefocuses on Nazi Germany’s attempts to control and shape the cultural sector across occupied Europe and discusses the role of theatre in the regime’s social and political goals. Greta Gebhard’s article interrogates critically the cult of domesticity and the ideologies that women used to build imagined communities and maintain aspects of cultural power in the national discourse. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Fine Arts (UdK) Berlin, Postdoc at the Department of Theatre Studies at LMU Munich and fellow at the International Research Center Interweaving Performance Cultures at FU Berlin.

• Publisher: International Association of Theater Critics
• Subject: Aesthetics / Feminism / Gorky, Maksim (1868-1936) / Intervention / National identity / Politics / Postcolonialism / Theater history / Theater studies / Writing