Brecht and the Tradition of anti-facist Theatre
Panel within the context of the series Anti-facist Theatre
With Hermann Haarmann, Rebecca Ajnwojner, Alexander Karschnia and Nikolaus Müller-Schöll.
Moderation Natassa Siouzouli Video impulses by Bini Adamczak, Tom David Uhlig and Claudia v. Gélieu
From 1936-1941, German emigrants in the Soviet Union, above all Erwin Piscator, tried to continue the anti-fascist struggle with the means of theater. In the city of Engels, they planned “to make a great experimental theater in which we can resume and continue our theatrical investigations” (Brecht). The idea was to continue the development of a political theater that had been interrupted by National Socialism. The cultural theorist and renowned exile researcher Hermann Haarmann provides an insight into this now almost forgotten chapter of anti-fascist theater. Building on this, he discusses the tradition of anti-fascist theater and Brecht’s anti-fascism with dramaturge Rebecca Ajnwojner, theater maker Alexander Karschnia, and theater scholar Nikolaus Müller-Schöll.