Universität Wien

170036 SE Seminar: Archive and Historiography (2013S)

Topography of German-language theatre

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 17 - Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Block meetings in Schreyvogelsaal on Fr 8.3. 13-19, Sa 9.3. 13-19,
Thur 20.6. 13-19, Fr 21.6. 13-19 and Sa 22.6. 15-20 o'clock
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 50 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Austrian theatre landscape until 1918 was comprised not only of standing theatres, there were many ambulatory troups which performed in many different towns for shorter or longer periods in varied localities. These troups brought theatre to out-of-the-way towns. Up to now an extensive catalog of these localities does not exist.
Using as a point of departure a list of over 300 towns where theatre is known to have been performed, the course participants will use railway lines, postal and ship routes to determine additional towns where theatre may have been performed. Thereafter they will locate where the localities where theatre was performed (name, dates, location, number of seats, perhaps groundplan or pictures/illustrations), information about the town (number of inhabitants, infrastructure, transportatioin connectioins, newspapers, additional hotels and restaurants). Furthermore they will locate information where material about the local theatre can be found (libraries, archives, museums).

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The results of the research will be used to create a reference work: Austrian Theatres. The students are to learn how to use various, not only theatre-related sources in order gain insight into the theatre practice and landscape of the 19th century.

Examination topics

Reading list

Almanach für Freunde der Schauspielkunst (ab 1854: Deutscher Bühnen-Almanach) 1836-1893
Österreichischer Theater-Almanach für das Theaterjahr 1839
Sachse, Carl Albrecht: Statistisches Handbuch für Bühnenvorstände, Bühnenkünstler und Bühnenfreunde 1854, 1855
Ferdinand Roeder's Theater-Kalender 1858-1879
Sachse, Carl Albrecht: Statistisches Handbuch für deutsche Bühnen 1865, 1872
Almanach der Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger 1873-1889
Neue Theater-Almanach 1890-1918
Deutscher Bühnenkalender 1901-1903
Österreichischer Theater-Kalender pro 1911
Deutsches Theater-Adreßbuch 1912-1918
Oppenheim, Adolf / Gettke, Ernst: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon

Association in the course directory

II.2.1. und II.2.2. Theaterwissenschaft; 092: § 5(1)

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