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The Art of Assembly’s event examines strategies to confront the new right. For the speakers, risk-taking is key. Yet Theatertreffen seems to have made a choice to avoid productions that specifically address current German political debates.

Theatre-makers from around the globe come together at Theatertreffen’s International Forum to dance, play games — and find new creative connections. TT-Blog spent a busy morning with them.

From Bertolt Brecht to René Pollesch, the German theatre world has often been defined by big-shot directors rather than famous actors. But why is this — and is it necessarily a bad thing?