Performing in Crisis Mode
The Munich National Theater, the Great Exhibition and the Cholera Epidemic in 1854
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21368352 |
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| Authors | Meike Wagner (0000-0002-1003-3979, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 39-61 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pamiętnik Teatralny (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-0522 • E-ISSN: 2658-2899 |
| Publisher | Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.36744/pt.561 |
| OpenAlex | W3125746015 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In 1854, the city of Munich had arranged for the “First General German Industrial Exhibition” to promote German industry to the world and invited a global audience to the event. At the same time, Franz Dingelstedt, director of the National Theater, organized a festival displaying the finest actors from Germany. Right after the opening of the festival, cholera started raging in the city and leaving 3,000 deaths in the final count. The author sketches out the role of the theatre in this crisis, when Dingelstedt was ordered by the king to keep the theatre open at any cost. This appears awkward, in regard to the current global pandemic crisis where theaters have been identified as risk zones for infection and consequently closed down. Why was the theatre at the time considered a safe and appropriate place even helping to counter the disease
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Economic history · Exhibition · German · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Media studies · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Medicine · Travel-related health issues
| Highly cited | No |
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