German Language Humanities : Theater -- Web Resources

Includes an archive of performance reviews

Seeks to provide unrestricted access to Germany’s cultural and scientific heritage, including millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music, and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany

Links for resources on film and theater provided by the Bibliotheksservice Zentrum, Baden-Würtemberg

Peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to philosophically discussing film studies, aesthetics, and world cinema

Online peer-reviewed scholarly journal on literature, film, and art in German-speaking countries after 1945. Articles, poetry, and prose, written in either German or English

Provides basic information such as author, title, topics, rights holders, experience chronicled (does not contain full text, audio, or visual materials) for more than 650 theater works from 1933 to the present relating to the Holocaust. As Michael Berenbaum, one of the scholars affiliated with the Catalog points out, the Nazis' intention was to de-humanize the Jews, while "the goal of theater is to re-humanize these people."

Searchable, full-text German-language archive of more than 800,000 newspaper and journal articles bearing on German literature (including film and theater) or on the German language. Iincludes reviews, interviews, reports on congress activities, and other information sources frequently not covered by broader journal and newspaper indexes. Be sure to try the Schlagwortliste

Database of full-text articles and books for the study of theater and the performing arts. Titles include: Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, TDR: The Drama Review, History of European Drama and Theatre, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Studies in Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Theory and Performance, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, and many more

Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more. Draws current content from more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews, and events. Currently 25 of the 200 periodicals contain full-text articles. Although the majority of titles begin in 1998, 46 important journals have been added retrospectively, some back to 1864

International society for research into the history of German-language theater beyond the historical borders of Germany and Austria

Web portal provides links to theater sites such as ensembles in German-speaking countries; children's theater; cabaret; puppet, figure, and dance theater, publishing houses, magazines, festivals, institutions, and acting schools

Provided by the Goethe Institut

Provides streaming video of more than 250 of the worlds most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries and interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors

Devoted to the reciprocal exchange of theatre artists worldwide and to an improved understanding of world cultures,. The German Centre shapes and initiates projects, realizes its own Festival, symposia and workshops, and supports artistic encounters and collaborations on an international level

Works worldwide to foster cultural cooperation, staging cultural events and encouraging Festival contributions in many forms including dance, theater, literature, and translation

"Interweaving Performance Cultures" (Freie Universität Berlin)
Focus on new research into the interweavings of theater cultures and the fusion of aesthetics with the social and political realm, examining questions of economic power, migration and identity politics, strategies of appropriation, and translation – both from a contemporary and historical perspective