I think it is astonishing how often I come across Kafka in theater these days. Maybe it has to do with the pandemic, or maybe it has always been like this, and I only notice it because I started to write the blog and have to sort out things in a more analytical manner. Kafka, … Continue reading Jakob Engel / Jan Philipp Stange: Hard Feelings (Ein Bericht für eine Akademie)
There is a moment in this show when the music gets very loud, and I don’t even know where the piece will go, and then Jonny Chambilla, one of the performers, suddenly shouts for a "catapult", and I think: Oh, wow, did they hide a catapult behind the large landscape backdrop? And a little later … Continue reading Monster Truck / Theater Thikwa: Dschingis Khan. Eine musikalische Völkerschau
I was invited to give a talk in the frame of an international scholars' gathering that took place in Bochum, as a parallel event to the theater and arts festival Ruhrtriennale, in 2019. The topic was Michel Foucault's idea of the heterotopias that he developed in a radio essay. In my presentation, I tried to … Continue reading Česky Krumlov and Foucault’s heterotopias
The official theater season has started, and there are a lot of articles in Germany that describe the impressions of what it means to going to live shows in Covid-19 mode. In der freitag, for example, the weekly newspaper, Angela Richter, herself a theater director, goes to Schauspielhaus Hamburg, and is shocked: The typical opening … Continue reading Sebastian Weigle / Hans Walter Richter: The Medium
Alexis Soloski, who writes for the New York Times, lately gave his impression on two audio-guide shows that he had seen, due to the Covid-19 restrictions. It's a funny thing to read his article—"For These Shows, Take a Hike", published on September 11, 2020—because it is as if he never had taken part in this … Continue reading David Guy Kono: Metamorphose
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