Link
http://www.recollectingtheatre.com
Runtime
2017–2020
project participants
Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (Institute for Media Culture and Theater, University of Cologne), Theaterhistorische Sammlungen (Institute for Theater Studies, Free University of Berlin), CCeH. In cooperation with the Theatermuseum Düsseldorf, the Deutsches Theatermuseum Munich and the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Network management: Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx (TWS). For other parties involved, see https://recollecting.tws.uni-koeln.de/templates/about_team.html.
Funding
Funded by the BMBF in the Alliance for University Collections funding line.
Description
(Re-)Collecting Theatre History aims to re-perspectivize and re-systematize personal collections from the early 20th century. The starting point of the project is the ‘accidental’ biographical order of collections (often in the form of estates), which stands in contrast to established historical models and theoretical categories of theater historiography. With a view to the eventful political history of Germany in the period from 1900 to 1970, continuities and discontinuities in work processes, artistic perspectives and networks of actors are examined on the basis of selected sub-collections.
Metadata on the objects will be indexed using an input mask in LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) XML format in order to (re)combine the selected personal estates from the collections in Cologne and Berlin as well as from supplementary holdings of the Düsseldorf and Munich theater museums in the digital space in an online research portal.
Publications
Probst, Nora / Pinto, Vito (2020). “Re-Collecting Theatre History: Theater Historiographical Legacy Research with Digital Humanities Methods.” In: New Methods in Theater Studies, ed. by Benjamin Wihstutz and Benjamin Hoesch, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 157–180. DOI: 10.14361/9783839452905-008.
Mertgens, Andreas / Türkoğlu, Enes / Probst, Nora (2020). “(Re-)Collecting Theatre History: Things of Knowledge, Biographies, Spaces of Action.” Paper at the DHd Conference 2020, Paderborn. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4769285.
Picture credits
Costume design for “Meier Helmbrecht” in Berlin 1934 by Traugott Müller (1895–1944), Institute for Theater Studies, FU Berlin, https://recollecting.tws.uni-koeln.de/templates/objekte/objects.html?btn=IFT_OBJ_TM000197.