Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheatre and Media Studies,Jewish Studies
KeywordsTheatre History (Early Modern period to contempora, Performance and Politics, Critical Media History, Shakespeare in performance, Cultural Studies
Honours and awards

2025: Workshop for the GIAN-program; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

2023: FRONTIER-Fellowship Tel Aviv University

2022: Visiting Professor at the University of Malta

2016: Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol

2015: BIRTHA-Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Bristol

2004: Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship

2002: Research Award for an outstanding dissertation by the »Freunde der Universität Mainz«

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityKöln
InstitutionUniversität zu Köln
InstituteInstitut für Medienkultur und Theater

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Mark M. AndersonDepartment of Germanic Languages, Columbia University, New York
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2004

Programme(s)

2004Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2020Marx, Peter W.: Macht|Spiele. Politisches Theater seit 1919.. Alexander Verlag, 2020
2020Peter W. Marx: Satanskapelle und Teufelsspieler. Zur Genealogie christlicher Theaterfeindschaft.. In: Communio, 2020, 127-138
2019Peter W. Marx: Travelling as Art and Art as Travelling: Carl Hagemann's Theatrical Conjurings of India. In: Naman P. Ahuja Louise Belfrage, A Mediated Magic: The Indian Presence in Modernism 1880–1930. The Marg Foundation, 2019. 114-129
2018Marx, Peter W.: Hamlets Reise nach Deutschland. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Alexander Verlag, 2018
2017Peter W. Marx (Ed): A Cultural History of Theatre: In the Age of Empire (1800-1920).. Bloomsbury, 2017
2008Peter W. Marx: Ein theatralisches Zeitalter. Bürgerliche Selbstinszenierungen um 1900.. Francke, 2008
2006Peter W. Marx: Consuming the Canon: Theatre, Commodification, and Social Mobility in Late Nineteenth-Century German Theatre.. In: Theatre Research International, 2006, 129-144
2006Peter W. Marx: Max Reinhardt. Vom bürgerlichen Theater zur metropolitanen Kultur.. Francke, 2006
2005Peter W. Marx: Challenging the Ghosts: Leopold Jessner's Hamlet.. In: Theatre Research International , 2005, 72-87