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This open access volume explores the crucial yet insufficiently addressed phenomenon of European theatre migration in the long nineteenth century. It argues that theatre migration went far beyond the popular phenomenon of touring, significantly shaping the historical discourse on theatre and mobility. The hidden and multifaceted histories of European theatre migration that this book seeks to explore allow us to rethink national theatre histories as histories of mobility, entanglements, and negotiations. They also allow the reader to challenge and to decenter a European self-understanding of insularity and a European cosmopolitanism ignorant of its imperial and colonial roots.
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Berenika Szymanski-Düll
is Professor in Theatre Studies with a focus on transnational theatre history at LMU Munich, Germany, and leads the research project T-MIGRANTS funded by the European Research Council. She is also the editor of the peer-reviewed journal
Forum Modernes Theater
. Berenika’s research is characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach and situated at the crossroads of theatre, history and society. Recent publications include
Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War
(2017), and
Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft
(2020), both co-edited with Christopher Balme.
Lisa Skwirblies
is Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project T-Migrants at the LMU Munich. Her research focusses on postcolonial and decolonial approaches towards theatre historiography. Recent publications include
Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial/dekolonial
(transcript 2022, co-edited with Azadeh Sharifi) and 'Colonial Theatrical' in the
Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance
(2020, edited by Gluhovic et al.).
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This open access volume explores the crucial yet insufficiently addressed phenomenon of European theatre migration in the long nineteenth century. It argues that theatre migration went far beyond the popular phenomenon of touring, significantly shaping the historical discourse on theatre and mobility. The hidden and multifaceted histories of European theatre migration that this book seeks to explore allow us to rethink national theatre histories as histories of mobility, entanglements, and negotiations. They also allow the reader to challenge and to decenter a European self-understanding of insularity and a European cosmopolitanism ignorant of its imperial and colonial roots.
