Introduction. Collective creativity: traditional patterns and new paradigms / Gerhard Fischer and Florian Vassen -- Subversion of creativity and the dialectics of the collective / Rolf G. Renner -- From the cultural contradictions of capitalism to the creative economy: reflections on the new spirit of art and capitalism / David Roberts -- Is simulation a collective creative practice? / Annette Vowinckel -- Collective creative processes in behavioural studies: community theatre as an agency of political research and action / Gerd Koch and Sinah Marx -- Old know-how for new challenges: East Germans and collective creativity? Two anthropological case studies / Peter F.N. Hörz and Marcus Richter -- From collective creativity to authorial primacy: Gottsched's reformation of the German theatre from a mediological point of view / Franz-Josef Deiters -- Synergetic art production: choreography in classical and neo-classical discourse on performative arts / Gabriele Fois-Kaschel --
- Kindred spirits: collective explorations of individuality in the classical period (Goethe, Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt) / Susanne Ledanff -- Keeping it in the family? The creative collaborations of Sophie and Dorothea Tieck / Alan Corkhill -- Vision around 1800: the panorama as collective artwork / Axel Fliethmann -- DEXA-Dan: embedding the corporeal body / Danny McDonald, Katherine McDonald and Gavin Lambert -- Bridging the two cultures: the fragility of interdisciplinary creative collaboration / Janet Chan, Roanna Gonsalves and Noreen Metcalfe -- Neo ranch: post-socialist vision, collective memories / Annette Hamilton -- Creative co-productions: Alexander Kluge's television experiments / Tara Forrest -- Creativity meets circulation: internet videos, amateurs and the process of evolution / Roman Marek -- From avant-garde to capitalistic teamwork: collective writing between subversion and submission / Thomas Ernst --
- Travelling companions: Cook's second voyage in the writing of Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster / Christiane Weller -- The romancing of collective creativity: the 'Bitterfelder Weg' in Brigitte Reimann's letters and diaries / Alison Lewis -- Intertextuality as mandatory collective creativity? Textual interconnection in Klaus Hoffer's novel Bei den Bieresch / Stefanie Kreuzer -- Community in the translation/response continuum: poetry as dialogic play / Christopher Kelen -- From author to spectator: collective creativity as a theatrical play of artists and spectators / Florian Vassen -- Spotlight on the audience: collective creativity in recent documentary and reality theatre from Australia and Germany / Ulrike Garde -- Fluid collectives of friendly strangers: the creative politics of difference in the reality theatre of Rimini Protokoll and urban theatre projects / Meg Mumford --
- Transcultural gestures: collective engagement in theatre, practice of separation and intermedial crystallizations / Günther Heeg
