Dramaturgies of War

Anselm Heinrich is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include Entertainment, Education, Propaganda (2007), Theater in der Region (2012), Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation (2017), and a volume on Ruskin, The Theatre, and Victorian Visual Culture (2009). He is currently under contract for a monograph on theatre in Britain during WWII. He has held research fellowships at Harvard, Oxford and Marburg. Ann-Christine Simke is a Lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland. She recently published the article “Forensic Architecture in the Theatre and the Gallery: A Reflection on Counter hegemonic Potentials and Pitfalls of Art Institutions” (with Anika Marschall, 2022) and is currently under contract for a co-authored (with Anika Marschall) book on intersectional theatre practices.

• Chapter-1: Introduction.- Part One: Dramaturgical Contexts: Institutionalised Ideologies.- Chapter 2 - Institutional Dramaturgy at Deutsches Theater Berlin - Ann-Christine Simke.- Chapter 3 - National Dramaturg Rainer Schlösser and German Theatre after 1933 - Gerwin Strobl.- Chapter 4 - Implementing Germanic Repertoires – Institutional Dramaturgy during WWII - Anselm Heinrich.- Chapter 5 - Brecht’s Performance Theories in Post- war Germany  - Ramona Mosse.- Chapter 6 - Cold War Dramaturgies: Institution and Ideology in 1950s German Theatre - Michael Bachmann.- Part Two: Institutional Infrastructures: Theatres of Oppression.- Chapter 7 - Theatre Poznań/Posen (Poland) - Alexander Weigel.- Chapter 8 - Theatre Maribor/Marburg (Slovenia)  - Matjaz Birk.- Chapter 9 - Theatre in Prague - Volker Mohn.- Chapter 10 - Theatre in Oslo - Anselm Heinrich.- Part Three: Performance Practice: Dramaturgy and the Aesthetics of War- Chapter 11 - In the OpenAir: Shell Shock Theatre - Evelyn Annuss.- Chapter 12 - Berlin – Amsterdam – Westerbork: Revue and the Aesthetics of War: Veronika Zangl.- Chapter 13 - Theatre under the NS regime in Austria: Theatrical activities in Crisis Situations - Brigitte Dalinger.- Chapter 14 - Spanish classical theatre during Third Reich - John London.