The question posed in the title of the conversation already raises a number of questions: Is there a collective of amateur theaters based on solidarity Who is in and who is excluded? What content, whose content is presented on the stages of these amateur theaters? And for what – ideological, economic, logistical – reasons?
How do topics such as (stereotypical) role expectations and the freedom to act out the gradations of one’s own identity(s) play into these discussions? Which prospects for change can we imagine or already observe? Which prospects for change can we imagine or already observe?
Aware that we are in an open-ended learning process, we exchange attitudes and positions and reflect together – possibly still unfinished – thoughts.
Podium guests
Gabriele Barth
Publisher and managing director of Deutscher Theaterverlag GmbH, Weinheim
Carola Unser
Artistic director and director of the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg
Dominik Eichhorn
Freelance theater and culture mediator, Berlin
Marcus Joos
Board member of the amateur theater Die Koralle e.V., Bruchsal
Rolf Kappler
Board of Directors Theaterkarren e.V., Rudersberg
Robert Paschmann
Educational advisor for personal development / political education, workshop leader on, among other things, gender equality and masculinity concepts, Hamburg
Moderation
Raphael Wohlfahrt
Cultural manager, amateur theater director and -player, Stuttgart
The discussion takes place in German.