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Performing Citizenship. Social and Political Agency in Non-Professional Theatre Practice in Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and Switzerland (1780-1850)

Description du projet

Comment le théâtre a façonné la citoyenneté

Apparu au siècle des Lumières et façonné notamment au cours des révolutions américaine et française, le théâtre amateur a joué un rôle central dans la formation du concept moderne de citoyenneté. C’est en effet à cette époque que le théâtre non professionnel a offert d’énormes possibilités éducatives pour l’acquisition d’aptitudes et de compétences jugées essentielles pour devenir un «bon citoyen». Le projet P-CITIZENS, financé par l’UE, explorera les contextes culturels et politiques qui ont ainsi déterminé les idées et les pratiques de la citoyenneté ainsi que du théâtre, et des études de cas portant sur la France, l’Allemagne, la Suède, la Suisse et le Royaume-Uni mettront en lumière la manière dont le théâtre amateur a donné naissance à des pratiques citoyennes. Les résultats aideront les chercheurs à évaluer le rôle du théâtre non professionnel dans la formation de la société moderne.

Objectif

Amateur theatre played a significant role in the formation of a modern concept of citizenship that emerged during the Enlightenment and took shape during the American and French Revolutions. Around the social activities enacted and texts performed a broad-based movement developed between 1780 and 1850 that, arguably, had more impact than professional theatre which has previously been the almost exclusive focus of theatre studies. In the period, non-professional theatre offered huge educative possibilities for the acquisition of skills and competences deemed essential to becoming a good citizen. For the first time, a historiographical research project will study European amateur theatres impact on social change.

Five different case studies will bring distinct cultural and political contexts into the picture that determined ideas and practices of citizenship as well as theatre: 1) late-absolutist rule in Germany, 2) revolutionary shifts in France, 3) parliamentary rule in Great Britain, 4) reformed monarchy in Sweden, and 5) a contested republic in Switzerland. The study of amateur theatre in these regions will reveal the development of their citizen practices in regard to accessibility and agency, aesthetic education, institutionalisation and professionalization.

Merging performance theory, cultural theory and institutional theory this project will connect the historical formation of citizenship to discourses on performativity and the building of identity through embodied practices. It will also help to foreground the role of non-professional theatre in the shaping of society.

The key objectives of this project are:

[1] to contribute to a historiographic shift by focusing on the doing and performativity of theatre practices
[2] to examine how concepts of citizenship emerged around theatre in Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and Switzerland
[3] to analyse how non-professional theatre embraced and further developed concepts that helped to establish a citizen

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Régime de financement

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Institution d’accueil

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 905 500,00
Adresse
GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1
80539 MUNCHEN
Allemagne

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Région
Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 1 905 500,00

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