In recent years, the presentation and communication of contents of faith that are valuable to create identities through the audio-visual media of theatre, at a time when there was hardly any other kind of ‘mass media’, has received increasing attention. The present volume, which collects the results of a symposium of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Society, draws conclusions from current scholarship dealing with religious plays, and it extends the results by using a distinctively interdisciplinary perspective. The papers consider media, performance and language aspects of the plays as well as their social, institutional, regional, and religious or political contexts.

The Beihefte zu editio [editio Supplements] appear as a complement to editio, the international journal dealing with questions of editorship, which is published in association with the relevant working groups of Germanists, philosophers and musicologists. While editio has a preference for fundamental and overarching papers covering editorship in as wide a variety of fields as possible, the Supplements deal with specialised questions from the concrete practice of editorship. In each case, the papers focus on one subject, which has normally arisen from a conference.

The Beihefte zu editio [editio Supplements] appear as a complement to editio, the international journal dealing with questions of editorship, which is published in association with the relevant working groups of Germanists, philosophers and musicologists. While editio has a preference for fundamental and overarching papers covering editorship in as wide a variety of fields as possible, the Supplements deal with specialised questions from the concrete practice of editorship. In each case, the papers focus on one subject, which has normally arisen from a conference.

The Beihefte zu editio [editio Supplements] appear as a complement to editio, the international journal dealing with questions of editorship, which is published in association with the relevant working groups of Germanists, philosophers and musicologists. While editio has a preference for fundamental and overarching papers covering editorship in as wide a variety of fields as possible, the Supplements deal with specialised questions from the concrete practice of editorship. In each case, the papers focus on one subject, which has normally arisen from a conference.