Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Collective Creativity: Traditional Patterns and New Paradigms -- I. Historical and Theoretical Reflections on Creative Collaboration -- Subversion of Creativity and the Dialectics of the Collective -- From the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism to the Creative Economy: Reflections on the New Spirit of Art and Capitalism -- Is Simulation a Collective Creative Practice? -- Collective Creative Processes in Behavioural Studies: Community Theatre as an Agency of Political Research and Action -- Old Know-how for New Challenges: East Germans and Collective Creativity? Two Anthropological Case Studies -- II. The Caesura around 1800: Collectivity and Individuality -- From Collective Creativity to Authorial Primacy: Gottsched's Reformation of the German Theatre from a Mediological Point of View -- Synergetic Art Production: Choreography in Classical and Neo-classical Discourse on Performative Arts -- Kindred Spirits: Collective Explorations of Individuality in the Classical Period (Goethe, Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt) -- Keeping it in the Family? The Creative Collaborations of Sophie and Dorothea Tieck -- Vision around 1800: The Panorama as Collective Artwork -- III. Visual Arts, New Media and Internet -- DEXA-Dan: Embedding the Corporeal Body -- Bridging the Two Cultures: The Fragility of Interdisciplinary Creative Collaboration -- Neo Rauch: Post-socialist Vision, Collective Memories -- Creative Co-productions: Alexander Kluge's Television Experiments -- Creativity Meets Circulation: Internet Videos, Amateurs and the Process of Evolution -- IV. Collective Writing -- From Avant-Garde to Capitalistic Teamwork: Collective Writing between Subversion and Submission.

Travelling Companions: Cook's Second Voyage in the Writing of Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster -- The Romancing of Collective Creativity: The 'Bitterfelder Weg' in Brigitte Reimann's Letters and Diaries -- Intertextuality as Mandatory Collective Creativity? Textual Interconnection in Klaus Hoffer's Novel Bei den Bieresch -- Community in the Translation/Response Continuum: Poetry as Dialogic Play -- V. Collectivity and Theatre Arts -- From Author to Spectator: Collective Creativity as a Theatrical Play of Artists and Spectators -- Spotlight on the Audience: Collective Creativity in Recent Documentary and Reality Theatre from Australia and Germany -- Fluid Collectives of Friendly Strangers: The Creative Politics of Difference in the Reality Theatre of Rimini Protokoll and Urban Theatre Projects -- Transcultural Gestures: Collective Engagement in Theatre, Practice of Separation and Intermedial Crystallizations -- Appendix -- Call for Papers: The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009 -- Contributors.