Themenheft: Staging Justice: Trials and the Law on the German Stage Gastherausgeber: Matthew Bell und Daniele Vecchiato Inhalt Matthew Bell and Daniele Vecchiato: Staging Justice: Trials and the Law on the German Stage Matthew Bell: Society and the Sources of Legality in Goethe's Die natürliche Tochter Stefania Sbarra: Kleists Käthchen von Heilbronn als Litotes von Goethes Grethchen in Faust. Ein Fragment: Ein Versuch Sophia Clark: Applause from the Jury: Publicness, Orality, Trial by Jury, and the Revolutionary Tribunal in Büchner's Dantons Tod Benedict Schofield: Displacing Justice? Looking for the Law in Gustav Freytag's Die Journalisten Laura Bradley: Watching Spectatorship and Judgment: Trial Scenes in Brecht's Epic Theater Benjamin Wihstutz: On Truth and Politics in German Documentary Theater of the 1960s: Hannah Arendt and Peter Weiss Daniele Vecchiato: Lay Judges and Lay Actors: Emancipating the Spectator in Rimini Protokoll's Zeugen! and Ferdinand von Schirach's Terror Richard McClelland: Between Theater and Courtroom: Theatricality, Performativity, and Citational Practices in Milo Rau's Die Zürcher Prozesse