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Foreword by Christopher Balme (LMU Munich, Germany)
Scenographic Practices and Aesthetics in Contemporary German Theatre, Arts and Design - An Introduction - Birgit Wiens (LMU Munich, Germany)
PART ONE Scenography in and beyond the Theatre: Aesthetics and Epistemes
1 'I am trying to add more layers to the story'. From the model to the stage: Artistic thinking and design practices in Aleksandar Denic's theatre works with Frank Castorf and others - A conversation between Aleksandar Denic (Stage Designer, Belgrade, Serbia) and Birgit Wiens
2 Notes on Bert Neumann's Stage and Costume Designs: Scenography as a Co-Player and Counterpart in Theatre Performances and Rehearsals - A conversation with Sophie Rois (actress, Berlin, Germany)
3 Scenographic materiality: Agency and Intra-Action in stage designs by Katrin Brack - Joslin McKinney (University of Leeds, UK)
4 Composing scenography: Reflexions on theories, practices and processes of Klaus Gruenberg's collaborations with Heiner Goebbels and others - Joint contribution by David Roesner (LMU Munich, Germany) and Klaus Grünberg (Stage Designer, Hamburg, Germany)
5 Theatre space after the ?spatial turn': Moving dynamics of the active spectator - Thomas Irmer (Theatre Critic, Berlin, Germany)
PART TWO Circulation of Scenographic Knowledge and Cultural Transfer
6 Notation: On the aesthetic potentials and epistemic functions of scenographic scores - Kirsten Maar (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
7 You cannot not not stage. Scenography - beyond theatre: Scenographic practices in museums, exhibitions and corporate design - Uwe R.
Brueckner and Linda Greci (Atelier Brueckner, Stuttgart, Germany)
8 The Art of Thinking and Designing Space. Notes from the Studio - Annett Zinsmeister (Artist, Architect, Berlin, Germany)
9 Don't be afraid of the art of parCITYpation. Scenographic intervention as social design - Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius (raumlaborberlin, Berlin, Germany)
PART THREE Rethinking Scenography
10 The ungovernableness of the scene - Dieter Mersch (Zurich University of the Arts, CH)
11 Scenography and actor-network-theory: Analytical approaches - Wolf-Dieter Ernst (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
12 Scenography: Research, education and training in Germany: Some observations - Thea Hoffmann-Axthelm and Robert Kraatz (Stage Designer/Scenographer, Berlin, Germany) Staging the unknown. Scenography and its future potentials: Preliminary résumé - Serge von Arx (Oslo/Frederikstad, Norway) and Birgit Wiens References Index