State of the Arts
An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration
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- Author: Jonas Tinius, Saarland University
- Date Published: August 2023
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- isbn: 9781009321129
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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.
Read more- Introduces key concepts in German cultural history through a range of carefully-chosen contemporary case studies, demonstrating how archival, historic, and ethnographic work can interact
- Enacts an interdisciplinary dialogue between socio-cultural anthropology and theatre and performance studies
- Provides an in-depth case study of a public German theatre tradition through long-term ethnographic fieldwork, making ethnographic methods and fieldwork accessible to scholars of theatre and performance studies
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‘In this truly captivating book, Jonas Tinius shows most convincingly anthropology´s unique quality to explain the large scale: Germany as a nation and ideas of Bildung in combination with recent migration, through a small scale case of contemporary theatre, the Theatre an der Ruhr. By including the concept 'ethico-aesthetic' the analysis opens up for further understandings of how ethical issues and practices complement aesthetic ones, importantly also further afield. Inspiring and impressive, State of the Arts is a game-changer.' Helena Wulff, Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
See more reviews‘State of the Arts is a (perhaps the first) genuine organisational ethnography of a German theatre. Tinius has written a groundbreaking study that links ethnographic fieldwork with fundamental insights into German theatre's institutional makeup to illuminate the remarkable Theater an der Ruhr.' Christopher Balme, Professor of Theatre Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
‘Tinius offers a refreshing and unique contribution to the anthropology of theatre, performance, and the arts by critically analyzing the conceptual, material, and historical constitution of an actual theatre, its repertoire, its traditions, and its actors. By framing the theatre as an 'extra-ordinary' field of ethical reflection and cultural production and describing in detail the rehearsal and production processes of the Theater, Tinius has made a significant anthropological contribution to ethnographic and theoretical discussions of theatricality and performativity and their uses for politics, society, and intellectual thought.’ Jenny Tang, Anthropology Book Forum
‘… an excellent example of anthropology’s capacity to draw larger insights from local practices. … this book can be recommended as a foundational contribution to understanding state patronage for the arts in modern Germany.’ Rose Campion, Ad Marginem. Randbemerkungen zur europäischen Musikethnologie
‘… the most valuable aspect of the book lies in its synthetic approach, freely combining the German aesthetic paradigm … with advanced anthropological reflections on contemporary art, performance, visual culture, arts, and politics. … [it] will be of interest for anthropologists working at the intersection of political and visual anthropology or interested in institutional ethnographies of experimental artistic spaces, with a keen focus on migration to Europe.' Nataliya Tchermalykh, Visual Anthropology Review
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- Date Published: August 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009321129
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.525kg
- availability: Available
Table of 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.
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