Christopher Balme

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Christopher B. Balme (* 1957 in New Zealand ) is a New Zealand theater scholar and director of the Institute for Theater Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Balme was born and raised in New Zealand, where he graduated from the University of Otago. Balme studied German , theater studies and cultural anthropology in Auckland , Otago and Munich , was an assistant in Munich, professor in Munich, and professor for theater studies in Mainz and Amsterdam . He has lived and worked in Germany since 1985. From 2004 to 2006 he headed the theater studies department at the University of Amsterdam. From 2007 to 2010 he was dean of the Faculty of History and Art at LMU Munich. Since 2006 Balme has been full professor for theater studies at the LMU Munich and director of the institute. The focus of work is the history of German-language theater, as well as intermediality , theater anthropology and post-colonial theater.

In addition to his work as director of the Institute for Theater Studies at LMU Munich, he is currently editor of the magazine Forum Modernes Theater . He has distinguished himself as the author of introductory works in theater studies. The Cambridge Introduction to Theater Studies (Cambridge 2008) was published in English ; The fifth edition of his German-language introduction to theater studies was published in 2014. In the lecture series of the Munich Doctoral Program For Literature And The Arts on the subject of "Mimesis" in the winter semester 2013/14, Balme will host the speakers.

Publications (selection)

  • Introduction to theater studies. 5th edition. Berlin. 2014
  • Theater in the post-colonial age. Theatron series. Tübingen 1995
  • (Ed.) The theater of tomorrow. Texts on the German theater reform 1870–1920. Wuerzburg 1988
  • (Ed. With Klaus Lazarowicz) Texts on the theory of theater. Stuttgart 1990
  • Decolonizing the Stage. Oxford 1999
  • Pacific Performances: Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas. Houndmills 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lecture series Mimesis winter semester 2013/14
personal data
SURNAME Balme, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balme, Christopher B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand drama scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH New Zealand