Gegenstimmbildung

How do theater projects intervene in a structurally racist society and its constructions of identity? From a postcolonial perspective and addressing subjects such as `second generation' theater and the controversies around blackface on German stages, Tania Meyer sketches out a number of strategies of anti-racist theater work. She presents theater projects that problematize the dominant social narratives on the enlightenment as a `European achievement', with which identities of the self and the Other are constructed. The study calls attention to the historical dimensions of racist practices of differentiation and their traditions, tracing them through to the present moment, and at the same time is a plea for the re-politicization of theater and drama teaching.