CRC 1385: Law and Literature - C04: Show-Trials. Dramatising the Law as Social Practice

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The project examines how show-trials enact and dramatise the law as social practice and how this exposes the complex relationship between the law and politics. Court trials which have received extraordinary media coverage or have been dramatized on the stage, such as the NSU trials, serve as subjects of analysis for this project. The focus lies on trials in which theatrical elements become constitutive for the law and, vice versa, on theatrical presentations which demonstrate the law's influence of dramatic form and content. Concepts of performativity and public space in the widest sense will take centre stage here. When politics is enacted, be it on the stage or in the law court, the mutual constitutivity of theatre and law emerges.