Ich will (k)ein Kind!

Abstract

The present contribution analyses the sanitary theatre performances as a means of education about the freedom of abortions in the early 1920s and the propaganda of motherhood in the late 1930s in the Soviet Union. It asks in which images, figures and actions medical knowledge was presented on stage, to what extend they reflected the evolution in gender concepts, which genre traditions and communicative instruments were used and on which changing political implications those performances were based. To obtain this the archive sources, selected texts of sanitary mock trials and dramas, reports and reviews in daily press have been evaluated.