Prof. Dr Peter W. Marx holds the Chair for Media and Theatre Studies at the University of Cologne. He is also director of the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung Cologne, one of the largest archives for theatre and performance culture in Germany.
His focus of research is theatre historiography, Shakespeare in Performance and the formation of theatre as a cultural practice in the Early Modern Period.
Prof. Marx has published extensively; one of his latest publications is the Handbook on Theatre and Performance Historiography (co-edited with Tracy C. Davis) Routledge, 2020. In 2020, the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, together with partners at the DFF Frankfurt/Main and the FIlmuniversität Babelsberg, acquired the collection for Werner Nekes, one of the world’s largest collections of objects and apparatus of Visual Culture since the Early Modern Period.
Prof. Marx will be giving the following lectures:
Venue: Engineering Building EB4
Venue: LC216
Wonder, marvels, astonishment – early modern media ecology was a multifaceted, polymorphic phenomenon that did not only include dramatic writing but also performative forms, traditional customs – such as carnival masks – but also apparata that combined scientific insights, seeking pleasure and entertainment, superstition and transcendent beliefs. The lecture sketches the outlines of such a transcultural, polycentric history that has shaped the pre- but also the modern world.
Venue: CHBO – 206