Lisa Zehetner and Thomas Lang

In my opinion, there are too few questions, even in discourse, (…) about the politics of means and not only the politics of content. (…). That was a taboo for a long time.

Thomas Lang

#Interview

Duration: 16 minutes and 11 seconds

Links: Zirkus der Kuscheltiere, I Furiosi – Die Wütenden, Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge, Räuber Hotzenplotz, Nimmer

Lisa Zehetner

Lisa Zehetner studied culture and media sciences in Düsseldorf and cultural pedagogy and cultural management in Mönchengladbach. From 2011 to 2017, she was dramaturge at the FFT Düsseldorf focussing on children and youth theatre. From 2017 to 2020, she was dramaturge at the Junges Nationaltheater Mannheim, where she worked, among others, with Monstertruck, Hannah Biedermann, James & Priscilla, Mathias Becker, subbotnik and Carlos Manuel. Since December 2018, she has been a board member of ASSITEJ Germany. Presently, she is working as a freelance dramaturge.

Thomas Lang

Thomas Lang (*1949) is a theatre pedagogue and theatre lecturer. From 1968 to 1975, he was enrolled in literature, social sciences and theatre studies at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin. From 1980 to 2000, he was the head of the children and youth theatre at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, and he ran the theatre section (now dramatic arts) at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel from 2000 to 2013. He was a board member of ASSITEJ from 1996 to 2016, since 2016 he has been an honorary member of ASSITEJ. From 2012 to 2019, he was chairman of the advisory board of the children and youth theatre centre in Frankfurt am Main.