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Professional actors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, who had emigrated to Canada after World War II, organized a theatre-group in order to provide fellow compatriots with the culture and language of their mother countries. / This thesis analyses the different stages of the ensemble and its development until 1997, focussing on the preparation of a chronological list of performance-statistics and the reception of German-language plays in the press. / The Deutsches Theater Montreal (DTM) had been a member of the International Theatre "La Poudriere" for about 20 years when it became independent in 1979 and moved to the Centaur Theatre. There it presents two productions per year, one in the spring and one in the fall. The German Government has financially supported this cultural exchange since its inception. / Due to the commitment and perseverance of its members, the DTM exists despite a declining number of immigrants from German-speaking countries and overstimulation through the media today. It has continued to succeed in attracting also non-mother tongue speakers to its performances. / The goal of this documentation is to bear witness to the development and the productions of the theatre.

This study is inspired by social discourse theory and sociocriticism of literature. it aims to describe an organizational system that informs theatre practice in Quebec and to go beyond aesthetic form, critical interpretation and institutional structure to reveal Quebecois theatre in its most synthesized form. / To comprehend the model's overall operation, three broad sectors of the theatre's sphere of activity were explored and juxtaposed: institution, reception and creation. For this purpose, a preliminary set of quantitative and discursive data was assembled from a study of the network of professional schools, associations, and festivals in the theatrical milieu. Following this, examination of a number of scholarly texts made it possible to observe the way in which these elements are linked together into a more comprehensive ideological structure, while analysis of a representative body of contemporary (1945--1990) Quebecois plays served to consolidate and refine these observations. / The central thesis of this work is that, at the level of the representation of the "world", there are a series of characteristics that may be thought of as the distinctive elements of Quebecois drama. In general, Quebecois theatre feeds off the denial of the theatrical in order to present itself to the spectator as a site of an impossible theatricality. This dynamic inscribes itself in sociocultural representation in general, and is perceived both in the spatio-temporal dimension of the play, and in the structure of dramatic character and dramatic conflict.

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