Critics often claim that the twenty-first century has seen a sudden -return- of religion to the German stage. But although drama scholarship has largely focused on politics, postmodernity, gender, ethnicity, and -postdramatic- performance, religious themes, forms, and motifs have been a topic and a source of inspiration for German dramatists for several decades, as this study shows. Focusing on works by four major dramatists - Botho Strau, George Tabori, Werner Fritsch, and Lukas Barfuss - this book examines how, why, and to what effect religion is invoked in German drama since the late...