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Call for Papers Documenta (Volume 44, Issue 1, 2026) | Flashpoint Volksbühne
Posted by Documenta on 2025-02-20
Guest Editors: Lily Climenhaga (UGent; lily.climenhaga@ugent.be) and Christine Korte (Freie Universität Berlin/NYU Berlin; christine.korte@nyu.edu) Born from the workers’ movement of the late 1800s, opened in the first year of the First World War, Berlin’s Volksbühne has long served as a lightning rod for political, social, and cultural conflict. The theatre stands on a politically charged [...]
Read MoreCall for Papers Documenta (Volume 43, Issue 1, 2025) | Milo Rau - Comparative Lenses
Posted by Documenta on 2024-07-15
Guest editor: Lily Climenhaga, lily.climenhaga@ugent.be In 2009, Swiss-German theatre-maker Milo Rau stormed onto Western European mainstages with the premiere of the first production of his then recently founded production company, the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), The Last Days of the Ceausescus. Since 2009, Rau has gained international prominence for his brand of [...]
Read MoreVolume 42 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Theatre in Times of Hyperpolitics
Editors: Jasper Delbecke (Guest Editor)
Articles
Foreword. On theatre in times of hyperpolitics and the challenges for theatre studies in Flanders / Woord vooraf. Over theater in tijden van hyperpolitiek en de uitdagingen voor theaterwetenschappen in Vlaanderen
Jasper Delbecke
2025-01-20 Volume 42 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Theatre in Times of Hyperpolitics • 3–21
Repertoire, ensemble and internationalization in Flemish city-theatres in the 2010s
Lena Vercauteren
2025-01-20 Volume 42 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Theatre in Times of Hyperpolitics • 23–46
German Theatres – Flemish Landscapes: Contextualizing Milo Rau’s NTGent Period
Lily Climenhaga
2025-01-20 Volume 42 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Theatre in Times of Hyperpolitics • 49–73
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Documenta (ISSN 0771-8640) is an important forum for the study of theater in the Low Countries. It is a journal that accommodates in-depth, scholarly contributions on all aspects of theater, as well as essays and critical reflections. Although the main proportion of articles in Documenta focuses on theater and performance, contributions relating to music, film and New Media are also considered, as far as they relate to the performing arts.
The journal was founded in 1983 by Jozef De Vos in the bosom of the Ghent Documentation Center for Dramatic Art. Since 2015, Documenta has been published by S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) of the Department of Theater Studies at Ghent University. The editorial board is composed of theater scholars from various universities and colleges. Chief editors are Christel Stalpaert and Bram Van Oostveldt.