Author Biography

Christopher Balme currently holds the chair in Theatre Studies at LMU Munich. He was born and educated in New Zealand where he graduated from the University of Otago. He has lived and worked in Germany since 1985 with positions at the universities of Würzburg, Munich and Mainz. From 2004 to 2006 he held the chair in theatre studies at the University of Amsterdam.  From 2007 to 2010 he was dean of the Faculty of History and Art at the University of Munich.
His current research interests focus on the legacy of modernism in the globalization of the arts; theatre and the public sphere; the relationship between media and performance.