Explaining the situation of German theatres:Analysis of Performances and Visitors

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Mathematics - Statistics, grade: 2,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: This essay will review the information surveyed on current data from Theaterstatistik 2008/2009 collected by Deutscher Bühnenverein. The data that was given there consists of 112 German cities, number of inhabitants in these cities, capacity of theatres, i.e. seats in all theatres that are available to visitors per 1000 inhabitants in each city. Moreover, there are 146 theatres given with the number of different types of performances produced in that particular theatre as well as the number of visitors presented in two ways: sold tickets to each type of the performance and regarding the type of a ticket.1 The aim of this essay is to summarize data about German theatres as well as to investigate interesting similarities and differences, do mean comparison and discuss the methodology used here.