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This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural production positions itself in relation to the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult heritage, and self-cultivation through the arts. Jonas Tinius' fieldwork with professional actors, directors, cultural policy makers, and activists unravels how they constitute theatre as a site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct and how they grapple with the pervasive German cultural tradition of Bildung, or self-cultivation through the arts. Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide a way to understand the entanglement of cultural policy, institution-building, and subject-formation. An ambitious and interdisciplinary study, the work demonstrates the crucial role of artistic intellectuals in society.
Contents
Introduction. Scaling Traditions: An Anthropology of Theatre, Migration, and State; 1. Activism, Aesthetic Education, and the Making of Modern German Theatre; 2. A Public Migrant Theatre: Inventing Institutional Traditions and the Becoming of an Artistic Organisation; 3. Rehearsal as Method: Ethnographies of Conduct and Character; 4. Repertoire Politics: Transnational Theatre and Travel as Diplomacy; 5. Places Along the Ruhr: Situated Knowledge and Refugee Theatre; Conclusion. Proposals for an Ethnography of Theatre and Performance.
