Dramaturgy after Postdramatic Theatre

The project examines current trends in dramaturgy that have been developing in the fields of theatre, contemporary dance and performance art in recent years. We will analyse productions from West- ern, Central and Eastern Europe in which language is used as a political instrument that enables vocal participation, representation and the critical examination of processes of social exclusion . Ra- ther than probing the sensual, rhythmic and poetic dimensions of speech, which has become the primary analytical approach to post-dramatic productions from the second half of the 20th century, todays theatrical productions foreground a different aspect of speech acts, compelling us to ask a new set of questions: Who is it that speaks on the stage? On behalf of whom do they speak? Whose voice do we hear? And who bears responsibility for what is said? With special attention to decolonial, multilingual, autobiographical and documentary productions, we aim to develop an analytical vocab- ulary suited to describing dramaturgical strategies of representation, vocal participation and inter- vention, to discerning standpoints and discursive positions. The research results will be made pub- licly available in the form of publications (both in German and in English), lecture series and a suc- cession of workshops. 1