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.

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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Climate dramaturgy
  • Article
  • International Cooperation
  • Care
  • War & Crisis
  • Sustainability
  • Transformation
  • Mar 12, 2025
Climate dramaturgy

Zoë Svendsen's understanding of a climate dramaturgy argues in favour of combining artistic goals with responsibility for people and the environment.

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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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Who cares? (Kopie 1)
  • Article
  • International Cooperation
  • Care
  • ITI Academy
  • Theater of the World
  • Dec 20, 2021
Who cares? (Kopie 1)

Dr. Nicola Scherer gave the keynote speech, excerpts of which are published here, at the ITI Academy Kick Off Weekend in December 2021.

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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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