caa a22 4500 388094249 CHVBK 20180307125300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X0001280X doi S0266464X0001280X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X0001280X Phipps Alison M. Risking Everything: Political Theatre for Mass Audiences in Rural Germany [Elektronische Daten] [Alison M. Phipps] In the south-west German village of Hayingen, the playwright-director Martin Schleker presents large open-air productions of politically sensitive yet entertaining plays to mass audiences on an annual basis. This article explores the element of risk in Schleker's work: his use of purely amateur performers; his job-creation schemes for young people; and his left-wing and often anti-Catholic stance on issues such as racism and nuclear arms before often deeply conservative, culturally Catholic audiences. Schleker's work is situated in the wider context of the state-funded, civic theatres in Germany, and of the tradition of open-air ‘Naturtheater' which is particularly strong in the Swabian region. Some assumptions surrounding such binary divides as amateur-professional and high art-entertainment are also explored. Data for this article was collected in the Hayingen ‘Naturtheater' during a period of ethnographic research supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Having completed her doctorate at Sheffield University, Alison Phipps has been working as a lecturer in the Department of German - and in particular in the Centre for Intercultural Germanistics - at Glasgow University since October 1995. She has published in the areas of her research interests, which include contemporary German theatre and performance research, Ethnographic approaches to language education, and popular German culture and intercultural studies. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 109-122 0266-464X 15:2<109 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X0001280X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X0001280X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Phipps Alison M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 109-122 0266-464X 15:2<109 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge