Zirkus | Wissenschaft - Performing Arts Profile

About

The project Zirkus | Wissenschaft seeks to anchor circus—a relevant object of research for cultural studies—in university research and coursework. It also encourages and initiates research projects on this genre, as well as the production of bachelor, master, and doctoral theses from students and scholars alike in Germany.

The project explicitly aims to establish the WWU as a long-term international meeting place for circensic researchers from Germany and abroad as well as to set up an international scholarly network.

Zirkus | Wissenschaft is intended to raise the public’s awareness of the significance of the circus as a cultural good.
Management
This project was initiated and is overseen by Franziska Trapp, doctoral student at the graduate school “Practices of Literature” at the University of Münster and the University of Montepellier. In her dissertation, she analyzes narration in circus performances of the Nouveau Cirque. She has also worked for various circus productions, such as the Festival Mondial du Cirque de demain in France and Cirque Bouffon in Germany.

Zirkus | Wissenschaft