Staging Blackness

Priscilla Layne is Professor of German and Adjunct Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (2018). Lily Tonger-Erk is Associate Professor at the German Studies Department and Research Associate at the Rhetoric Department of the University of Tübingen, Germany.

“The scholarship represented in this book is timely and cutting edge. The manuscript marks an important step in the history of German theater studies and theater itself.”—Tobias Nagl, University of Western Ontario

• ContentsPriscilla Layne & Lily Tonger-ErkCenturies of Staging Blackness in Germany: An IntroductionI: Black Figures. Race-ing the CanonWendy-Lou Sutherland“Looking at the Overlooked”: The Table as Global Stage in Karl Gotthelf Lessing’s “Die Mätresse” (1780)Sigrid G. KöhlerBlack Revolution – Or: Reflection of History in Tragedy. Resistance and Slavery as Theme in Popular German-language Theater (1775-1810)Irmtraud HnilicaMonostatos’ Longing: Staging Blackness in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”Franziska BergmannEconomies of Compassion and Skin Color in Friedrich Schiller’s “Fiesco’s Conspiracy at Genoa” (1783)Lily Tonger-ErkStaging Whiteness: Race and Aesthetics in Schiller’s “The Robbers” and Antù Romero Nunes’ 2012–2013 ProductionNorbert Otto EkeBlackness in Heiner Müller’s ImaginaryII: Black Performance and Practices of Blackfacing Jeff BowersoxBlackface and Black Faces on German and Austrian Stages, 1847-1914Evelyn AnnußRacisms and Representation. Staging Defacement in Germany ContextualizedJonathan WipplingerThe “Biguine”: The African Diasporic Presence at Weimar’s EndAndrea GeierHow Education about Racism can(not) succeed: Blackface in Literature, Theater, and FilmIII: Black Artists. Race, Theater, Institution Azadeh SharifiColoniality and decolonial practices in contemporary German theaterOlivia Landry“Black Bismarck” and the Circum-Mediterranean Performance of Black German TheaterHanna VossFrom Drama School to Stage: Young Actors of Color in German-Speaking “Sprechtheater”Simone Dede Ayivi, director and authorRahel Jankowski, actressMichael Klammer, actorPhilipp Khabo Köpsell, author Olivia Wenzel, author, musician, performerRoundtable DiscussionAnta Helena ReckeJudgment, Power, and Participation in Theater. Based on the Ascending Career of a Black Female Artist in Germany during the Latter Half of the 2010sContributorsIndex