Governing Theater: Theater, politics and the public sphere after 1918 in Germany (A04)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 394775490

The proposed subproject deals with the question of how the relationship between theater, politics and the public was altered between 1918 and 1936 by the abolition of censorship, increased financial support from the public sector and the control of public opinion, here understood to be the press and theater audience. Using two case studies, the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Münchner Residenztheater, the subproject aims to investigate what happens when practices of control and surveillance are shifted directly to institutions on the one hand and to the public on the other

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1369: Cultures of Vigilance. Transformations - Spaces - Practices
• Applicant Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Christopher Balme; Privatdozentin Dr. Nic Leonhardt