Painter, C orcid.org/0000-0002-5421-6339 and Sharp, I (2021) Women of Aktion Performance, Gender, and the German Revolution of 1918. Feminist German Studies, 37 (1). pp. 38-60. ISSN 2578-5206
Abstract
The role of women in the 1918 German revolution has largely been neglected in the historiography, recent commemorative events, and popular understanding of the end of World War I. One hundred years on, the revolution is seen as the cornerstone of German democracy. Leaving women out therefore excludes them from their own democratic history and distorts the historical narrative. In 2018 a new play, Women of Aktion, toured the UK and Germany, placing the forgotten female revolutionaries at center stage. It was the result of a close collaboration between academics and the theater group Bent Architect. The creation and staging of the play uncovered and performed the history of German women's resistance, and the performance itself intervened in the historiography and public narratives to resist the erasure of revolutionary women.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2020 11:21 |
Last Modified: | 12 Aug 2021 10:56 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:166649 |