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Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth century, the birth of German national theater, until the present. In recent years, the German stage has been at the forefront of discussions about race, from cases of blackface to fights for better representation within the professional community. These debates frequently invoke larger discussions about the politics of race in German theater and their origins and beyond.
Written by scholars and theater professionals with a wide variety of historical and theoretical expertise, the chapters seek to explore the connections between the German discourse on national theater and emerging ideas about race, analyze how dramaturges deal with older representations of Blackness in current productions, and discuss the contributions Black German playwrights and dramaturges have made to this discourse. Historians question how these plays were staged in their time, while cultural studies scholars contemplate how to interpret the function of race in these plays and how they can continue to be staged today.
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Contents
Priscilla Layne & Lily Tonger-Erk
Centuries of Staging Blackness in Germany: An Introduction
I: Black Figures. Race-ing the Canon
Wendy-Lou Sutherland
"Looking at the Overlooked": The Table as Global Stage in Karl Gotthelf Lessing's "Die Mätresse" (1780)
Sigrid G. Köhler
Black Revolution - Or: Reflection of History in Tragedy. Resistance and Slavery as Theme in Popular German-language Theater (1775-1810)
Irmtraud Hnilica
Monostatos' Longing: Staging Blackness in Mozart's "The Magic Flute"
Franziska Bergmann
Economies of Compassion and Skin Color in Friedrich Schiller's "Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa" (1783)
Lily Tonger-Erk
Staging Whiteness: Race and Aesthetics in Schiller's "The Robbers" and Antù Romero Nunes' 2012-2013 Production
Norbert Otto Eke
Blackness in Heiner Müller's Imaginary
II: Black Performance and Practices of Blackfacing
Jeff Bowersox
Blackface and Black Faces on German and Austrian Stages, 1847-1914
Evelyn Annuß
Racisms and Representation. Staging Defacement in Germany Contextualized
Jonathan Wipplinger
The "Biguine": The African Diasporic Presence at Weimar's End
Andrea Geier
How Education about Racism can(not) succeed: Blackface in Literature, Theater, and Film
III: Black Artists. Race, Theater, Institution
Azadeh Sharifi
Coloniality and decolonial practices in contemporary German theater
Olivia Landry
"Black Bismarck" and the Circum-Mediterranean Performance of Black German Theater
Hanna Voss
From Drama School to Stage: Young Actors of Color in German-Speaking "Sprechtheater"
Simone Dede Ayivi, director and author
Rahel Jankowski, actress
Michael Klammer, actor
Philipp Khabo Köpsell, author
Olivia Wenzel, author, musician, performer
Roundtable Discussion
Anta Helena Recke
Judgment, Power, and Participation in Theater. Based on the Ascending Career of a Black Female Artist in Germany during the Latter Half of the 2010s
Contributors
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