Kiel Uprising: Women's activism and the German Revolution November 1918

该项目寻求支持，以编写、排练和制作一部突出妇女在1918年基尔起义中的作用的新剧，并制作一个固定的、巡回的和在线的展览，该展览得到教育宣传和在线教学资源的支持，借鉴了澳大利亚人权委员会国际网络赠款“战后的妇女组织和女性活动家：1918年至1923年的国际视野。在该项目中，一个由国际学者组成的跨学科小组探讨了妇女活动家及其组织在战后时期塑造新欧洲方面的作用，确定战后时期是一个充满激进潜力的独特时期，在这一时期，性别关系的重新谈判是在前所未有的社会、经济和政治紧张的不稳定和高度动荡的条件下进行的。从合作中出现的一个主要和研究非常不足的领域是妇女在革命中所发挥的作用的重要性，这是中欧和东欧战后社会的一个主要特点。这一点在学术界和大众对战争结束的描述中都没有反映出来。在英国，人们几乎不知道德国以革命方式结束了战争，也不知道这场战争如何影响了战后时期。迄今为止，英国的百年纪念活动一直强调这场冲突的军事方面--对反战者的纪念在很大程度上被边缘化了。如果德国的观点被包括在内，那就是加强了对德国军国主义的刻板印象。该项目旨在挑战这一点，并扩大公众对德国反军国主义的理解，首先是讲述1918年11月结束战争并在德国土地上建立民主的德国革命的故事，其次是将普通民众，特别是积极反对战争和支持革命的妇女置于中心舞台。这种方法的效果是挑战革命的性别，迄今为止，由于大多数历史研究都集中在军事和革命领导人身上，革命几乎完全是一个男性的故事。后续项目将突出妇女在1918年德国革命中的作用，特别关注基尔作为这一关键历史事件的起点。它将把女性写进2018年11月英国和德国围绕战争结束一百周年的历史记述、公共知识和纪念活动中。这出戏将沿着革命的道路在英国和德国巡回演出。PI已经担任基尔计划活动的顾问，即计划于2018年在海事博物馆举办的大型展览，以及为此而委托制作的一部新歌剧，该歌剧将于1918年11月在基尔首演。布拉德福德的和平博物馆热衷于将德国的观点纳入2018年纪念战争结束一百周年的计划中，在德国反战运动的大背景下进行革命。一个基于个人在1918年做出的导致德国战争失败的选择的展览将邀请参观者反思个人在战争中对国家和人类的责任的道德问题。弯曲建筑师是一个社会参与的戏剧公司，致力于将鲜为人知的历史搬上舞台。随着英国崛起的成功，在2014年巡回演出时，编剧和导演都热衷于制作一部从德国人的角度讲述故事的伴侣作品，并强调女性在结束战争的选择中的作用。

This project seeks support for the writing, rehearsing and production of a new play that highlights women's role in the Kiel Uprising of 1918 and the production of a fixed, touring and online exhibition supported by educational outreach and online teaching resources that draws on the findings of the AHRC international network grant 'Women's Organisations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of War: International Perspectives 1918-1923'. In that project, an interdisciplinary team of international scholars explored the role of female activists and their organisations in shaping the new Europe in the post- war period, identifying the period immediately after the war as a distinctive period full of radical potential during which the renegotiation of gender relations took place under unstable and highly volatile conditions of unprecedented social, economic and political strain. One major and very under- researched area that emerged from the collaboration was the importance of the role played by women in the revolutions that were a major feature of post- war societies in central and eastern Europe. This is not reflected either in academic or popular accounts of the end of the war, and the revolutionary end to the war in Germany and how that shaped the post -war period is virtually unknown in the UK.Centenary commemorations in the UK so far have emphasised the military aspects of the conflict - commemoration of those who opposed the war has largely been marginalised. Where the German perspective has been included at all, it has been to reinforce stereotypes of German militarism. This project aims to challenge this and broaden public understanding of German anti- militarism, first by telling the story of the German Revolution that brought the war to an end in November 1918 and established democracy on German soil, and secondly by putting the ordinary populace, especially the women who actively opposed the war and supported the revolution, centre stage. This approach has the effect of challenging the gender of the revolution, hitherto presented almost exclusively as a masculine story due to the current focus on the military and revolutionary leaders in the majority of historical research on this subject.The follow- on project will highlight women's role in the German revolution of 1918, with a particular focus on Kiel as the starting point of this key historical event. It will write women into the historical accounts, public knowledge and commemorative activities surrounding the centenary of the end of the war in November 2018 in both the UK and Germany. The play will tour in Britain and Germany, following the path of the revolution. The PI is already acting as consultant to events planned for Kiel, namely a major exhibition planned to run for the year 2018 in the Maritime Museum and a new opera commissioned for the occasion that will be premiered in Kiel in November 1918.The Peace Museum in Bradford is keen to include the German perspective in plans to mark the centenary of the end of the war in 2018 and to look at the revolution in the broader context of anti-war activism in Germany. An exhibition based on the choices individuals made in 1918 that led to the collapse of the German war effort would invite the visitor to reflect on the moral questions surrounding an individual's duty to the nation and to humanity in wartime.Bent Architect are a socially engaged theatre company committed to bringing lesser- known histories onto the stage. Following the success of the production England Arise!, which toured in 2014, the writers and directors are keen to produce a companion piece that tells the story from the German point of view and which emphasises the role of women in the choices that ended the war.