Theatre Migrations across the Partitioned Past—Biographical Narratives, Cultural Networks, and Tangled Histories: Introduction

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Berenika Szymanski-Düll

Berenika.Szymanski@lmu.de
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)


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Introduction to essay-cluster Theatre Migrations across the Partitioned Past 


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2025-12-15

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Szymanski-Düll , B. (2025) “Theatre Migrations across the Partitioned Past—Biographical Narratives, Cultural Networks, and Tangled Histories: Introduction”, Pamiętnik Teatralny, 74(4), pp. 9–15. Available at: https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/4258 (Accessed: 16 December 2025).

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Berenika Szymanski-Düll  
Berenika.Szymanski@lmu.de
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany

BERENIKA SZYMANSKI-DÜLL – Professor of Theatre Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She heads the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project t-MIGRANTS (www.t-migrants.com) and is editor of the journal Forum Modernes Theater. Her research interests focus on transnational theatre history, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between migration and theatre practices.



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