Reading the news about theatre in Germany during the past few years, it is hard to avoid the impression that something new is happening: a theatre culture that long emphasized politics now just as often emphasizes ethics. There were the 2022 protests in Munich over claimed anti-Semitism in the play Vögel (Birds of a Kind) by Wajdi Mouawad, which led the Metropoltheater to cancel its planned production. Nicolas Stemann and Benjamin von Blomberg tried to make programming and ensemble changes to the Schauspielhaus Zürich, which they co-led, but the institution's governing board decided not to renew their contracts amid accusations that the theatre had become too “woke” for its audiences. Most prominently, a new artistic team at the prestigious Theatertreffen festival in Berlin curated in 2023 a series of events to coincide with its traditional presentation of the year's ten “most notable” productions. These events included a “Responsibility Treffen” that looked “at how we can show our responsibility toward those who have lost the personal and structural circumstances necessary for working in the theatre.”

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爱我：从政治到伦理


阅读过去几年关于德国戏剧的新闻，很难避免一种新事物正在发生的印象：长期以来强调政治的戏剧文化现在也经常强调道德。2022 年，慕尼黑发生了抗议活动，抗议瓦吉迪·懋婉 （Wajdi Mouawad） 的戏剧 Vögel（一种鸟）中的反犹太主义，这导致大都会剧院取消了其计划中的演出。尼古拉斯·斯特曼 （Nicolas Stemann） 和本杰明·冯·布隆伯格 （Benjamin von Blomberg） 试图对他们共同领导的苏黎世剧院 （Schauspielhaus Zürich） 进行节目编排和合奏更改，但该机构的管理委员会决定不续签合同，因为有人指责该剧院对观众来说太“清醒”了。最突出的是，在著名的柏林戏剧节上，一个新的艺术团队在 2023 年策划了一系列活动，以配合其传统上展示年度十大 “最值得注意 ”的作品。这些活动包括“责任 Treffen”，着眼于“我们如何向那些失去了在剧院工作所需的个人和结构环境的人表明我们的责任”。