The Spatial Organization of Theatrical Entertainment. Data Sets from German Trade Publications, 1890s to 1920s.

This dataset contains data about the spatial organization of theatrical entertainment in the German-speaking world in the early twentieth century. It provides the locations and numbers of members of the Berlin-based International Association of Variety Managers (Internationaler Varieté-Theater-Direktoren-Verband I.V.T.D.V.) for the years 1913, 1919 and 1925. The dataset was created from international city lists printed in “Das Organ der Varietéwelt”, an important German-language trade publication of the variety theater industries, published by the I.V.T.D.V. Each spreadsheet includes the historical city names and countries (as they were listed in the sources, not always reflecting most recent historical changes); today’s names and countries of these cities; the number of association members in each of these cities (not counting multiple mentions of individual members per city); and the geographic coordinates of each city (longitude/latitude) from geonames.org. This data was used to create some of the maps published in Dietze, Antje (2020). Wie organisiert man die Vergnügungsindustrie? Internationale Verbände der deutschsprachigen Varietéwelt, 1880–1929. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 46 (1), 87–121.