Westend und Friedrichstraße: Eine vergleichende Studie des populären Theaters in London und Berlin, 1890-1930 / Westend and Friedrichstraße: a comparative study of pupular theatre in London and Berlin, 1890-1930

最近的研究表明，音乐剧是十九世纪末二十世纪初最重要的流行文化之一。它代表了戏剧现代化的一个关键阶段，并对戏剧美学产生了重大影响。在讽刺剧的情况下，它通过声称自己是一种典型的现代文化形式，产生了对保守的进步主义的“书籍音乐剧”的挑战。它还以复杂的方式参与关于现代世界的思想，记录和塑造当代对阶级、性别和民族认同的态度，并与主流政治问题相结合。音乐剧是一种“娱乐”，但它远非单纯的消遣，而是日常现代文化的一个关键组成部分。这个跨学科的项目专注于音乐喜剧，讽刺剧和轻歌剧，使用未出版的戏剧文本档案，以及摄影和音乐档案，研究这些社会，文化和政治活动在两个重要的欧洲流行戏剧网站-柏林和伦敦，1880-1939年。主要目的是产生一个比较批判的历史编纂这些晚现代，工业化组织，娱乐。

As recent research is making clear, music theatre was one of the most important popular cultures of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It represented a key stage in the modernization of the theatre and had a major impact on theatre aesthetics. In the case of revue, it produced challenging alternatives to the conservative progressivism of the 'book musical' by making claims for itself as a characteristically modern cultural form. It also engaged in complex ways with ideas about the modern world, registering and shaping contemporary attitudes to class, gender and national identities and articulating with mainstream political issues. Musical theatre was 'entertainment', but, far from being an innocent diversion, it was a key constituent of everyday modern culture. Focusing on musical comedy, revue and operetta, this interdisciplinary project uses unpublished play-text archives, as well as photographic and music archive, to study these social, cultural and political engagements across two important European sites of popular theatre — Berlin and London, 1880-1939. The primary aim is to produce a comparative critical historiography of these late modem, industrially organized, entertainments.