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Community Building within a Festival Frame: Working-Class Celebrations in Germany, 1918–1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2005

MATTHIAS WARSTAT
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Abstract

The concept of festival can help to understand the framework within which political community building took place in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and the methods employed in doing so. Political communities were established within different kinds of cultural performances such as gatherings, demonstrations, party conventions, and – most frequently – political celebrations, which obtained a festival-like structure. Referring to examples from the labour movement, this article examines different techniques of creating communities and discusses the impact of theatrical strategies and certain types of theatre in this crucial field of modern politics.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , October 2005 , pp. 262 - 273
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International Federation for Theatre Research 2005

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