Andreas Rossmann

75 years’ Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen - this book attempts a somewhat different look back by not showing any photos of theatre plays nor of prominent visitors from politics or the trade unions, but puts the public, the spectators, in the centre. Who are they? What do they look like, and what distinguishes them? - their entrances, faces and gestures, their clothes, spectacles, hair-styles? What are they wearing - around their throats, on their heads? Almost three-quarters of a century separates the oldest photos from the most recent ones.