Global Theatre Histories: Modernization and the emergence of a transnational public sphere (1860-1960).

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Christopher Balme
• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 2009 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 101414069

• Final Report Year: 2017

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• “Die Proliferation der dramatischen Gattungen im 19. Jahrhundert.” In Handbuch Drama. Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte. Edited by Peter W. Marx. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2012
  Leonhardt, Nic
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-00512-0_28)
• “Històrias Globais do Teatro: modernização, esfera pública e redes teatrais transnacionais.” In Rotas de Teatro entre Portugal e Brasil. Edited by Maria H. Werneck and Angela d. Castro Reis, 203–19. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2012
  Balme, Christopher
  
• “Theatrical Translation as Modernization in the First Age of Globalization.” In Translation. Narration, Media and the Staging of Differences. Edited by Michael Roessner and Federico Italiano, 103–20. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839424582.103)
• Derek Walcott. The journeyman years: occasional prose 1957-1974. Cross/Cultures 172. Amsterdam, Netherlands, New York: Rodopi, 2013
  Christopher Balme and Gordon Collier, eds.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401210072)
• “A Hop, A Frock, A Hairdo: Irene Castle and her Female Networks of Theatrical Business.” Popular Entertainment Studies 4, no. 1 (2013): 50–63
  Leonhardt, Nic
  
• “Derek Walcott and the Search for a Caribbean National Theatre.” In The journeyman years occasional prose 1957-1974. Edited by Christopher Balme and Gordon Collier, ix–xxx. Cross/Cultures 172. Amsterdam, Netherlands, New York: Rodopi, 2013
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401210072_001)
• “Sustaining the Theatrical Public Sphere: Challenges and Perspectives.” In Africa and beyond: Arts and sustainable development. Edited by Patrick Ebewo, 52–68. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
  Balme, Christopher
  
• “Theater als Kulturindustrie: Globale Perspektiven in einer reflexiven Moderne.” In Theater entwickeln und planen: Kulturpolitische Konzeptionen zur Reform der darstellenden Künste. Edited by Wolfgang Schneider, 33–55. Postcolonial Studies 61. Bielefeld: transcript 2013
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839425725.33)
• Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific (1869 - 1946). Dissertation, Theatre Studies Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 2014
  Yamomo, meLê
  
• The theatrical public sphere. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051668)
• The Tropic Trapeze: Circus in Colonial India. Dissertation, Theatre Studies Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 2014
  Ghosh, Anirban
  
• “Theatre and Modernisation in the First Age of Globalisation: The Cairo Opera House.” In Syncretic arenas essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre: For Esiaba Irobi. Edited by Isidore Diala, 141–58. Cross/Cultures 177. Amsterdam [u.a.]:Rodopi, 2014
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211802_015)
• “Theatrescapes: Global Media and Translocal Publics (1850-1950).” Conference report
  Dupré, Johanna, Rashna Nicholson und Marija Djokic
  
• “Transatlantic Theatrical Traces. Sketches of Oceanic Trade Routes and Globe-Trotting Amusement Explorers.” In The Passing Show. Vol. 30. Edited by Shubert Archive, 2–23., 2014
  Leonhardt, Nic
  
• “’His means are in supposition’: Shakespeare and the beginnings of the global theatre trade.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2014, no. 150: 111–27
  Balme, Christopher
  
• The Bayreuth Enterprise. 1848-1914. Dissertation, Theatre Studies Department, Ludwig- Maximilians-University, January 15, 2015
  Tögl, Gero
  
• “'From the Land of the White Elephant through the Gay Cities of Europe and America' - Rerouting the World Tour of the Boosra Mahin Siamese Theatre Troupe (1900).” Theatre Research International 2, no. 2 (2015): 140–55
  Leonhardt, Nic
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883315000024)
• “Brokering Sonic Modernities: Migrant Manila Musicians in the Asia Pacific, 1881-1948.” Popular Entertainment Studies 6, no. 2 (2015): 22–37
  Yamomo, meLê
  
• “Kommen und Gehen am Gärtnerplatz: Die Spielstätte im 19. Jahrhundert als Umschlagplatz für Theatervielfalt aus aller Welt.” In ‚Dem Volk zur Lust und zum Gedeihen’. 150 Jahre Gärtnerplatztheater. Edited by Stephan Frey, Leipzig: Henschel, 2015
  Leonhardt, Nic
  
• “Managing Theatre and Cinema in Colonial India: Maurice E. Bandmann, J.F. Madan and the War Films’ Controversy.” Popular Entertainment Studies 6, no. 2 (2015): 6–21
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.39862)
• “Negotiating the Entertainment Business: Theatrical Brokers at the Turn of the 20th Century: Focus Issue.” Special issue, Popular Entertainment Studies 6, no. 2 (2015)
  Leonhardt, Nic, ed.
  
• “The Bandmann Circuit: Theatrical Networks in the First Age of Globalization.” Theatre Research International 40, no. 01 (2015): 19–36
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883314000546)
• „Erlebnis, Erfahrung, Experiment. 3D als idée fixe in Theater und Medien“, in: Bernd Stiegler (Hg.): 3D. (AugenBlick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft). Heft 62/63, August. Marburg: Schüren 2015, S. 17-35
  Leonhardt, Nic
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3620.)
• Durch Blicke im Bild. Stereoskopie im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Neofelis 2016
  Leonhardt, Nic
  
• “Die erste Jockey-Reiterin der Welt, aus Süd-Amerika: Rosita de la Plata, Global Imaginaries and the Media.” Journal of Global Theatre History 1, no. 2 (2016)
  Dupré, Johanna
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/5033)
• “Editorial. Theatrescapes. Global Media and Translocal Publics”. Special issue, Journal of Global Theatre History 1, no.2 (2016), III-IV
  Leonhardt, Nic
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/5039)
• “Introduction: Theatrical Trade Routes.” In “Theatrical Trade Routes.” Edited by Christopher Balme and Nic Leonhardt. Special issue, Journal of Global Theatre History 1, no. 1 (2016): 1–9
  Leonhardt, Nic, Christopher Balme
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/5020)
• “Introduction: Theatrical Trade Routes.” In “Theatrical Trade Routes.” Edited by Christopher Balme and Nic Leonhardt. Special issue, Journal of Global Theatre History 1, no. 1 (2016): 1–9. Accessed December 13, 2016
  Balme, Christopher, and Nic Leonhardt
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/5020)
• “Maurice E. Bandmann and the Beginnings of a Global Theatre Trade.” In “Theatrical Trade Routes.” Edited by Christopher Balme and Nic Leonhardt. Special issue, Journal of Global Theatre History 1, no. 1 (2016): 34–45
  Balme, Christopher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/5019)
• “The Local Otherness: Theatre Houses in the United Arab Emirates.” Arab Stages Journal 2, no. 2 (2016)
  Ziad, Adwan
  
• “The Opera House in Damascus and the ‘State of Exception’ in Syria.” New Theatre Quarterly 32:3 (August 2016): 231-243
  Ziad, Adwan
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X1600021X)
• “Theatrical Trade Routes.” Special issue, Journal of Global Theatre History 1, no. 1 (2016)
  Balme, Christopher, and Nic Leonhardt, eds.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.5282/gthj/2016-1)
• Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
  Balme, Christopher and Berenika Szymanski-Düll, eds.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48084-8)
• “Manila and the World Dance Space: Nationalism and Globalization in Cold War Philippines and Southeast Asia.” In Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War. Edited by Christopher Balme and Berenika Szymanski-Düll. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p.307-324
  Yamomo, meLê, and Steve Villaruz
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48084-8_18)
• “Medializing Race: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Colonial Southeast Asia.” In The Transnational Histories of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. S. 258-282
  Yamomo, meLê