Prof. Dr. Friedemann Kreuder

Research Interests
Richard Wagner, Geistliches Spiel, Theater der Frühen Neuzeit und des 18. Jahrhunderts, Gegenwartstheater, Theaterwissenschaft als sozialwissenschaftliche Differenzierungsforschung.

Academic Background
Friedermann Kreuder has been Professor of Theater Studies at Mainz University since 2005. He was President of the Society of Theater Studies from 2008 to 2012, and Vice President from 2004 to 2008. He was Guest Lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin, at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Glasgow, Bern and HTMF in Hamburg. He was a research associate at the Institute for Theater Studies at FU Berlin and Scholar in the DFG Graduate Program “Theater as a Paradigm of the Modern Age: Drama and Theater in the 20th Century” at Mainz University. He gained his postdoctoral qualification in 2005. In 2003 he received the Tiburtius Prize for his dissertation entitled “Forms of Memory in the Theater of Klaus Michael Grübers”.

Publications (Top 5)

2020

„Theater zwischen Reproduktion und Transgression. Theaterwissenschaft als sozialwissenschaftliche Differenzierungsforschung“. In: Balme, Christopher/Szymanski-Düll, Berenika (Hg.): Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft. Forum Modernes Theater (56). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, S. 257-277.

2017

Between Cosmopolitism and Autochthony – Richard Wagner and the Concept of the German National Theatre, in: Stollberg, Arne et al. (Hg.): Gefühlskraftwerke für Patrioten? Wagner und das Musiktheater zwischen Nationalismus und Globalisierung, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, S. 123–136.

2017

„Repertoire and Genres“. In: Henke, Robert (ed.): A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age, London: Bloomsbury.

2010

Spielräume der Identität in Theaterformen des 18. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen: Francke.

2002

Formen des Erinnerns im Theater Klaus Michael Grübers. Berlin: Alexander.