ITI - Journal

The ITI Journal features national and international authors from academia and artistic practice who report on the performing arts in a transnational context, cultural policy or cultural discourses in a broader sense.

Despite the Circumstances: On Keeping Going and Striving for Connections
  • Interview
  • ITI Academy
  • Theater of the World
  • Jun 24, 2026
Despite the Circumstances: On Keeping Going and Striving for Connections

A conversation on the approaches and aims of the ITI Academy.

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The Time of Automatic Sympathy is Over
  • Interview
  • International Cooperation
  • War & Crisis
  • Transformation
  • Feb 12, 2026
The Time of Automatic Sympathy is Over

ITI Director Dr Juliane Zellner in conversation with Yvonne Büdenhölzer, Dr Gesche Joost and Gitte Zschoch about the opportunities and challenges of international cultural work.

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Theater der Welt - a reality check in terms of sustainability
  • Interview
  • Decolonization
  • Sustainability
  • Theater of the World
  • Mobility
  • Mar 28, 2024
Theater der Welt - a reality check in terms of sustainability

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WE NEED EACH OTHER TO CREATE CHANGE
  • Interview
  • ITI Academy
  • Transformation
  • Jul 10, 2023
WE NEED EACH OTHER TO CREATE CHANGE

Anastasija Bräuniger, Faisal Kiwewa, Bettina Sluzalek and Malin Nagel reflect on the first edition of the ITI Academy and explore perspectives for the further development of the programme.

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ON AFFECTION, NEW LANGUAGES AND COLD BUREAUCRACY
  • Interview
  • International Cooperation
  • Decolonization
  • Pandemic
  • Mobility
  • Jun 23, 2022
ON AFFECTION, NEW LANGUAGES AND COLD BUREAUCRACY

Elisabeth Luft talks to Monika Gintersdorfer, winner of the ITI Prize Germany 2022, and the performer Carlos Martínez about the challenges and allure of transcontinental artistic work.

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Outlook Theater der Welt 2023
  • Interview
  • International Cooperation
  • Decolonization
  • Theater of the World
  • Jun 22, 2022
Outlook Theater der Welt 2023

Chiaki Soma, Programme Director, and Kyoko Iwaki, Programme Collaborator, talk to Jan Linders about their plans, curatorial concepts as well as the five strategies they have developed for Theater der Welt 2023.

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Equal Footing
  • Interview
  • International Cooperation
  • Decolonization
  • Transformation
  • Jan 18, 2022
Equal Footing

International cooperations and coproductions with artists from Africa pose special questions and create challenges. For Kerstin Ortmeier and Martine Dennewald they are the motives to think about post-colonial curating.

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These are not issues, this is a transformation
  • Interview
  • International Cooperation
  • Pandemic
  • Transformation
  • Dec 20, 2021
These are not issues, this is a transformation

In May 2021 Yvonne Büdenhölzer was voted in as the new president of the ITI. She and Thomas Engel talk to Andrea Zagorski about fractures and the impending challenges for transnational theatre work, with the ITI‘s international network in mind.

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