„Zwischen den Welten“. Zum Konzept des Liminalen im Theater polnischer Migrant*innen in Deutschland
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Abstract
In this article, I ask to what extent and through what semantic means Polish theatre artists use the concept of liminality as a preferred theatrical strategy for addressing issues related to the cultural diversity of contemporary society. Particularly, I look at the rigidity and impermeability of (mental) borders in Europe, the typically difficult (or impossible) process of arriving in a new place, and the often related experience of marginalization. I analyze “staged liminality” on three levels: the personal one (the state of liminality as the mental condition of individual characters), the semantic one (the state of liminality as a metaphor for the fate of migrants and the associated sense of ambivalence and ambiguity), and the spatial one (the theatrical “representation”/”staging” of urban space as a transitional space). In doing so I highlight three constitutive elements of Polish migrant theatre by artists of the younger generation of immigrants in Germany: First, their works reflect on the issues of identity and belonging related to the concept of liminality; second, they thematize the socio-political stigmatization of migrants and refugees and the resistance it generates; and finally, the artists attempt to overcome such a state of affairs by treating theatrical activity as a kind of intervention. Turner’s concept of liminality, with its three phases, offers a productive framework to reflect on the specificity of the theatre of Polish migrants in the context of postmigrant theatre and the German theatrical landscape more generally.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".