Anselm Heinrich

Biography

Dr Anselm Heinrich is Lecturer and Head of Theatre Studies. Born in 1971 in Bühl in southern Germany and brought up in the Westphalian town of Schwerte he studied English, History and Pedagogy in Münster and graduated with the Staatsexamen and an MA. He then embarked on a PhD at the University of Hull. Anselm subsequently worked as a teaching assistant (Lektor) in Modern Languages at the University of Hull and then as a Research Associate at Lancaster University before moving to Glasgow in 2006. He has published on various aspects of British and German history, and has also worked as a translator. Anselm passionately supports Borussia Dortmund, plays football (badly) and the drums (mediocre), but loves doing both.

Research Interest

German and British theatre history, especially regional and national theatres, audiences and repertoires, issues of funding, censorship, and propaganda. Anselm is also interested in contemporary German and British playwriting, comparative approaches in historiography, the arts during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich in Germany, artists in exile (1933-1945), theatre in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, cultural policy, and dramaturgy.