Theatre, Violence, and Collective Memory

Ulrike Elfriede Loch

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-09731-6_6

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Theatre, Violence, and Collective Memory

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Theatre, Violence, and Collective Memory

Ulrike Elfriede Loch

Theatre and Quality of Life: Structures, Practices, Actors, Vol.91, pp.99-109

Social Indicators Research Series, 91, Springer

2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-09731-6_6

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Abstract

The publication is based on the experiences of collaboration between science and theatre in translating research findings into a play of national relevance. In the example presented, the theatre was made available as a space for the social processing of the collective (cultural and communicative) memory of violence in institutions. It thus became a place for encountering, listening and understanding, reæection, contradiction, and conciliatory dialogue, which has continued in other social circles, institutions, and spaces. To summarise the results of this project, theatre can greatly inæuence the construction of violence in cultural and communicative memory if society accepts it and receives the acts. Naming historical violence as injustice has far-reaching effects on the social positioning of victims and inæuences their current well-being and the democratic development of society.

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Title: Theatre, Violence, and Collective Memory
Creators: Ulrike Elfriede Loch - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Publication Details: Theatre and Quality of Life: Structures, Practices, Actors, Vol.91, pp.99-109
Editor(s): Corvo P, Riccioni I
ISBN: 978-3-032-09730-9
EISBN: 978-3-032-09731-6
ISSN: 1387-6570
EISSN: 2215-0099
Series / Volume: Social Indicators Research Series
91
Publisher: Springer
Cham
Number of pages: 11
Identifiers: 978-3-032-09730-9
(UNIBZ)92301012
991007232439601241
Scopus ID: n.a.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Education
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Author Names String: Loch U
Additional Description: Editors/Supervisors: Corvo P, Riccioni I
description: The publication is based on the experiences of collaboration between science and theatre in translating research findings into a play of national relevance. In the example presented, the theatre was made available as a space for the social processing of the collective (cultural and communicative) memory of violence in institutions. It thus became a place for encountering, listening and understanding, reæection, contradiction, and conciliatory dialogue, which has continued in other social circles, institutions, and spaces. To summarise the results of this project, theatre can greatly inæuence the construction of violence in cultural and communicative memory if society accepts it and receives the acts. Naming historical violence as injustice has far-reaching effects on the social positioning of victims and inæuences their current well-being and the democratic development of society.

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