Agonal communities. Collective formations in press texts and prompt books of Hamburg's theatre between 1765 and 1806

该项目旨在通过汉堡阶段的历史新闻文本和速成书籍的例子，分析18世纪末出现了哪些具体形式的对立社会形态。与这两种来源相对应，项目将被细分为两个部分。首先将通过探索1765年至1806年之间的中心事件来调查剧院公共空间中冲突发展的结构。分析的主要焦点将是汉堡戏剧新闻业中不同的社区概念，以及由此产生的不同媒体之间的竞争关系，以及媒体、观众、演员和方向之间的冲突。因此，戏剧新闻业用来强化其立场，从而有助于公共纠纷升级和降级的传播策略将成为焦点。通过更仔细地观察18世纪的戏剧剧本，第二部分将利用一个略有探索的来源。该项目将他们置于剧院制作和接收的集体过程中。它将试图通过汉堡戏剧收藏的代表性作品的体裁交叉选择，来检验剧本中的媒介和交流结构如何揭示虚构的、媒介的和话语形式的戏剧社区建设之间的竞争。为了得出分析的结论，本项目的两个细分将通过一个综合的视角进行联合评估：在对立的戏剧社区的公众和审美构成之间存在哪些分歧和趋同？通过这种方式，该项目希望对戏剧的政治美学有新的见解。该项目将以汉堡大学的德国研究所为基础，要求持续三年。为了补充该项目的全职研究职位，将为学生助理提供额外的资金。工作范围将包括选择档案中的相关原始材料并对其进行分析。利用国家和国际合作者网络在该项目中发挥核心作用。在一个研讨会中，将从跨历史的角度来研究敌对戏剧社区的现象。它将为建立一个国际呼吁奠定基础，这将有助于为这一专题筹备一个研究小组。该项目的结果将在两本书中出版：申请者将撰写一本专著，通过汉堡的例子分析18世纪戏剧中敌对社区的构成。此外，还将出版一本收集研讨会贡献的卷，并研究这一现象与19世纪和当前戏剧的关系。

The project aims to analyze which specific forms of antagonistic social formations emerged in the late 18th century through the example of historic press texts and prompt books of Hamburg’s stage. Corresponding to those two types of sources, the project will be subdivided into two parts. The first will investigate the structures of conflict development in the public space of theatre by exploring central events between the years 1765 and 1806. The main focus of the analysis will be the diverse concepts of community in Hamburg’s theatre journalism as well as the resulting competitive relationship between different media and also the conflicts between press, audience, actors and direction. The communication strategies, which are used by theatre journalism to enforce its standpoints and thus contribute to the escalation and de-escalation of public disputes, will therefore become the focal points.By taking a closer look at theatre scripts from the 18th century, the second part will utilize a little explored source. The project situates them in the collective process of production and reception in theatre. It will attempt to examine how mediality and communicative structures in the scripts uncover the competition between fictional, medial and discursive forms of theatrical community building through a genre-crossing selection of representative works of Hamburg’s theatre collection To conclude the analysis, both subdivisions of the project will be evaluated jointly through a comprehensive perspective: which divergences and convergences exist between the public and aesthetic constitutions of antagonistic theatre communities? Through this approach, the project hopes to gain new insights about the political aesthetic of theatre.The project is to be based at the University of Hamburg’s Institute for German studies, with a requested duration of three years. To supplement a full-time research position for the project, additional funds will be made available for a student assistant. The scope of work will include the selection of relevant source materials in archives as well as their analysis. Leveraging the network of national and international collaborators plays a central role in the project. In a workshop, the phenomenon of antagonistic theatre communities will be examined from a transhistorical perspective. It will lay the foundation for the creation of an international call, which will facilitate the preparation of a research group for the topic. The results of the project will be published in two books: the applicant will write a monography, which will analyze the constitutions of antagonistic communities in theatre of the 18th century through the example of Hamburg. Furthermore, a volume collecting the contributions from the workshop and examining the phenomenon’s relationship with 19th century and current theatre will also be published.