European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire

Berenika Szymanski-Düll is Professor in Theatre Studies with a focus on transnational theatre history at LMU Munich, Germany, and leads the research project T-MIGRANTS funded by the European Research Council. She is also the editor of the peer-reviewed journal Forum Modernes Theater. Berenika’s research is characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach and situated at the crossroads of theatre, history and society. Recent publications include Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War (2017), and Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft (2020), both co-edited with Christopher Balme.Lisa Skwirblies is Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project T-Migrants at the LMU Munich. Her research focusses on postcolonial and decolonial approaches towards theatre historiography. Recent publications include Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial/dekolonial (transcript 2022, co-edited with Azadeh Sharifi) and 'Colonial Theatrical' in the Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (2020, edited by Gluhovic et al.).

• INTRODUCTION (Berenika Szymanski-Düll, Lisa Skwirblies, LMU Munich, Germany).-PART I: MIGRATION TRAJECTORIES AND TRANSNATIONAL LIFEWORLDS.- Chapter 1: Who is a “theatre migrant”? (Berenika Szymanski-Düll, LMU Munich, Germany).-Chapter 2: “Russia in Paris and Theatre Laws in Transylvania – On Migration, Mobility and Transnational Female Theatre Historiography” (Martina Groß, University of Hildesheim, Germany).-Chapter 3: “The Times and Toils of Moyshe Hurwitz” (Ruthie Abeliovich, University of Haifa, Israel).-Chapter 4: “Travelling Along ‘Untrodden Tracts’: Joachim Stocqueler and the Making of Early Colonial Theatre in India” (Priyanka Basu, King’s College London, UK).-PART II: SETTLER IMPERIALISM AND HOMES ABROAD.-Chapter 5: “From Cape Workers and Carriers of Culture: Migration, Citizenship, and Race in the German Empire” (Lisa Skwirblies, LMU Munich, Germany).-Chapter 6: “Icelandic ‘Divas’ in North America” (Magnus Thorbergsson, University of Iceland, Iceland).-Chapter 7: “Actor Migration from Britain to Australia” (Jim Davis, University of Warwick, UK).-PART III: IMAGINED COMMUNITIES AND MIGRATORY NETWORKS.-Chapter 8: “Polishness Through Otherness: How Polish Migrant Artists in the Nineteenth Century Created Polish National Imaginary?” (Kasia Lech, University of Amsterdam, NL).- Chapter 9: “Migration and National Theatre in Argentina (1870-1890): From Multicultural Complexities to Theatre Networks” (Vanesa Cotroneo, LMU Munich, Germany).-Chapter 10: “Agents of the State? Migration Networks of Theatre Professionals and their Role in the Habsburgian Expansion to the East“ (Jorit Jens Hopp, LMU Munich, Germany).-PART IV: AESTHETIC ENTANGLEMENTS AND SPACES OF NEGOTIATION.-Chapter 11: “An Italian, a Texan and a Scot walk into a pathshala: Migration and Circus Narratives in South Asia” (Anirban Ghosh, Shiv Nadar University, India).-Chapter 12: “Transnationality as an Advantage or a Hindrance for a Theatre Career? Swedish Actors in Finland during the Struggle for National Independence” (Rikard Hoogland, University of Stockholm, Sweden).-Chapter 13: “Theatre Migrants in the Habsburg Monarchy - A Contribution to the Transnational Expansion of German-speaking Theatre in the 19th Century” (Danijela Weber-Kapusta, LMU Munich, Germany).-Chapter 14: “From Barcelona to Buenos Aires and Beyond: The Millanes Sisters as Theater Migrants, 1880-1920” (Kristen McCleary, James Madison University, USA).