Lecture Series: Public History, Popular History or Historical Edutainment - Representations of German and American History in Theatre, Cinema and Television

The lecture series explores how popular forms of drama have been—and can be—used as powerful tools for teaching the complicated and entangled histories of Germany and the United States. German and American Educators, historians, and theater professionals will discuss an array of German and American productions that depict and teach histories that include the American Revolution, chattel slavery, the Holocaust, and postwar Germany.

12 April 2018: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Overhoff (Münster): The Early History of the USA in Schiller’s "Love and Intrigue": Teaching a Revolutionary Lesson of Independence on the German Stage

19 April 2018: Tim Zumhof (Münster): Historical Culture and Edutainment in Germany and the USA. An Introduction to Basic Concepts, Flieds of Research, and Examples.

26 April 2018: Nicholas Johnson (Münster): History, Film, and Education

3 May 2018: Amber Mitchell (New Orleans/USA): Transatlantic Slave Trade and Film

17 May 2018: Dr. Thorsten Carstensen (Indianapolis/USA): Learning from John Ford: History, Time, and Geography in the Novels of Peter Handke

7 June 2018: Prof. Dr. Raymond J. Haberski (Indianapolis/USA): 1970s Liberalism vs. Radicalism in Film

14 June 2018: Stephanie Johns (Stratford (Ontario)/Kanada): Theater and Historical Education

21 June 2018: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck (Freiburg i. Br.): Living History in North America and Germany

28 June 2018: Alissa Rubinstein (Berlin): The 614th Commandment, A documentary play about how American Jews feel about Germany today

5 July 2018: Felix Apel (Berlin): Fritz Bauer on Film