In Print: Theater der Zeit – Arbeitsbuch 25, Castorf

Big Art Group’s interview is out about Frank Castorf in Theater der Zeit’s Arbeitsbuch 2016! Thanks to Matt Cornish http://ow.ly/7kYt302gbo2

From the book

“Endstation Amerika” ​​in Santiago de Chile, “The Master and Margarita” in Moscow, “Pension Schöller: The Battle” in Belgrade, “Dämonen” in Paris – Frank Castorf’s transhistoric and transgeographical aesthetics has outgoing from the mother ship Volksbühne by regular guest plays theaters, Critics and artists all over the world. But how is his thinking and staging of “unique realities” in the context of other aesthetic, cultural, and, above all, political-social contexts? How do his literary adaptations affect a Russian audience? Like his wild, existential, theatrical-acting theater theater director in China? What are the intellectual tips? What aesthetic?

The workbook 2016 presents the work of Frank Castorf in its international perception, recalls its beginnings in Vorpommerschen Anklam, maps his work at the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and focuses on this all-encompassing aspects such as “medial strategies” (Alexander Kluge) , “Philosophical interpretations” (Boris Groys), “East-West transformations” (Carl Hegemann). We also publish Frank Castorf’s speech in March 2016 on the occasion of the awarding of the Grand Art Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.