Email: lisafrederike.seidler@fu-berlin.de
Website: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/arbeitsstelle-universitaetsgeschichte/mitarbeiterinnen/Wissenschaftliche-Mitarbeiter_innen/seidler-lisa-frederike.html

Research interests
Play publishing, modes of (democratic) production, cultural industries, historiography, archive

Associated project to T&E
My dissertation deals with Verlag der Autoren (VA), a play publisher in West Germany in the 1970s. Using this example, I discuss the production of plays not only as artworks but also as commodities. The corporate structure of VA, which is organized collectively, is interesting in terms of alternative working models in cultural industry: publishing is based not only on joint decisions and collective review of manuscripts, but also on ensuring individual productions by playwrights. Thus it contributes to the discussion about the transformation of cultural production after 1968.

Publications
Der Verlag der Autoren. Theater als Ware – Verlegen als Kritik. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2025.

„Protokolle der Theaterverlagsarbeit. Mitbestimmungsdokumente im Kulturbetrieb.“ DokumentWerden. Ed. Marion Biet et al. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024, 153–169.

Short bio
Lisa-Frederike is a postdocal researcher at the Centre for University History at Freie Universität Berlin. She studied theatre studies, art history and musicology at LMU Munich, then in the MA-program in theatre studies at FU. Here, she also completed her PhD in 2023. Her current research investigates the student strike culture and protest media at FU after the university reform of 1969.