Anna Teresa Scheer is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. She studied theatre in London and worked as a performer and director in the UK and in Germany where she lived until 2007. She is co-editor (with Tara Forrest) of the book Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders (2010) and has published several further articles and book chapters on his work.

• Introduction 1. Schlingensief’s Germany: Coming of Age in the Eighties, Re-unification Problems in the Nineties2. From Filmmaker to Contemporary Phantasmagorian 3. Re-playing the Sixties: Rudi Dutschke’s Long March, Rocky Dutschke ’68 and Performative Activism4. A Phantasmagorical Intertwining: Contemporary German Politics as Theatrical Farce 5. Spectres of Fascism and a Theatrical ‘Ghosting’: Hamlet - Nazi-line 6. Art, Terror, a Church in Cyberspace and a Mobile Congregation: The Democratization of Fear as a Utopian Social ProjectConclusion: Schlingensief and his Phantasmagoric TheatreEndnotesBibliographyIndex

[This] collected volume Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders, coedited with Tara Forrest in 2010, is an essential resource for anyone working on Schlingensief, particularly on the early English reception of his work. Scheer has now produced her first monograph on Schlingensief, which also functions as an introduction to his work for an English-speaking audience... Scheer’s book will quickly become an essential guide for Schlingensief’s perplexed followers.

Anna Teresa Scheer is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. She studied theatre in London and worked as a performer and director in the UK and in Germany where she lived until 2007. She is co-editor (with Tara Forrest) of the book Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders (2010) and has published several further articles and book chapters on his work.

• Introduction 1. Schlingensief’s Germany: Coming of Age in the Eighties, Re-unification Problems in the Nineties2. From Filmmaker to Contemporary Phantasmagorian 3. Re-playing the Sixties: Rudi Dutschke’s Long March, Rocky Dutschke ’68 and Performative Activism4. A Phantasmagorical Intertwining: Contemporary German Politics as Theatrical Farce 5. Spectres of Fascism and a Theatrical ‘Ghosting’: Hamlet - Nazi-line 6. Art, Terror, a Church in Cyberspace and a Mobile Congregation: The Democratization of Fear as a Utopian Social ProjectConclusion: Schlingensief and his Phantasmagoric TheatreEndnotesBibliographyIndex

[This] collected volume Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders, coedited with Tara Forrest in 2010, is an essential resource for anyone working on Schlingensief, particularly on the early English reception of his work. Scheer has now produced her first monograph on Schlingensief, which also functions as an introduction to his work for an English-speaking audience... Scheer’s book will quickly become an essential guide for Schlingensief’s perplexed followers.

Anna Teresa Scheer is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. She studied theatre in London and worked as a performer and director in the UK and in Germany where she lived until 2007. She is co-editor (with Tara Forrest) of the book Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders (2010) and has published several further articles and book chapters on his work.

• Introduction 1. Schlingensief’s Germany: Coming of Age in the Eighties, Re-unification Problems in the Nineties2. From Filmmaker to Contemporary Phantasmagorian 3. Re-playing the Sixties: Rudi Dutschke’s Long March, Rocky Dutschke ’68 and Performative Activism4. A Phantasmagorical Intertwining: Contemporary German Politics as Theatrical Farce 5. Spectres of Fascism and a Theatrical ‘Ghosting’: Hamlet - Nazi-line 6. Art, Terror, a Church in Cyberspace and a Mobile Congregation: The Democratization of Fear as a Utopian Social ProjectConclusion: Schlingensief and his Phantasmagoric TheatreEndnotesBibliographyIndex

[This] collected volume Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders, coedited with Tara Forrest in 2010, is an essential resource for anyone working on Schlingensief, particularly on the early English reception of his work. Scheer has now produced her first monograph on Schlingensief, which also functions as an introduction to his work for an English-speaking audience... Scheer’s book will quickly become an essential guide for Schlingensief’s perplexed followers.