Digitale Theaterforschung

Video coming soon. Vortrag vom 11. November 2025 The starting point for this presentation lies in Benjamin’s attempt to write a habilitation-thesis on the theme of “language and logic.” The original framework for the pursuit of this theme collapsed when Benjamin re-read Heidegger’s habilitation-thesis. Starting anew, Benjamin conceives a new framework that revolves around a formal distinction between knowing (Wissen) and cognition (Erkenntnis): whereas the latter, associated with logic, is subject to critique, the former, […]

Vortrag vom 8. Juli 2025 “The greatest act of cowardice on the part of any man is to keep silent. It is therefore incumbent on every one of us to speak out aloud. It is my wish that this play would shock to the very core those who blandly remain tongue-tied.” (Note to the Director) – Sony Labou Tansi The lecture examines ways of understanding “difference” and “repetition” as a space of resistance reflecting the […]

Vortrag vom 24. Juni 2025 After thousands of remounted performances and cascades of critiques, many preceding scholarships have demonstra- ted a development in understanding Madama Butterfly as a story epitomizing the imagined orient formulated within the framework of the so-called “Spaghetti Eastern” Italian operas. By situating the Orientalist view of Madama But- terfly as a historical counterpoint, I will discuss in this talk how Japanese playwright-director Ichihara Satoko challen- ges the political violence of Puccini’s […]

Vortrag vom 21. Januar 2025 The question of Artaud’s politics has often been obscured by an unfair concentration on Antonin Artaud as a case study in madness. Up until recently, some of the most ex- plicitly political and philosophical writings of the French poet were hidden in an untranslated retranscription of his book Revolutionary Messages, written in Mexico in 1936. Published for the first time in September 2024, it not only allows us to reassess […]

Vortrag vom 11. Juni 2024 Starting from Marianne Van Kerkhoven’s ideas about micro and macro dramaturgy, the lecture explores the notion of curating beyond staging performances and shaping a repertoire and examines how festivals are creating “cultural gathering spaces” (J. Applebaum) and “spaces for dialogue” (H. Perry) outside the walls of their building, venturing into site-responsive, process-focussed, and interdisciplinary practices. For illustrating this move from product to process, from consumption of art to civil participation […]