theater and City: What potential does the interplay between city hold for current development in Germany?

The air is thick with tension-German theaters are in crisis. A lack of funding, a lack of audiences, and a perceived lack of relevance and necessity are being denounced. A crisis is being proclaimed, but firstly, it is not really new - the demise of theater is announced at regular intervals - and secondly, it seems to be going round in circles. Yet the answer is right there on the street, or rather in the city: a greater understanding of theater as part of the city that surrounds it opens up many possibilities on closer inspection. These can help theaters move back to the center of social life through the essential core of theater, which is acting and self-reflection. For it is only in the interplay between theater and city that relevance arises, which is in danger of being lost in the "more" and "higher, faster, further" - the real crisis.

Pagina's: 68, Paperback, Our Knowledge Publishing