Azadeh Sharifi is a theatre and performance scholar and is currently covering professorship for the theory and history of theatre at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has previously held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Toronto and the Berlin University of the Arts. Her research focuses on postcolonial and postmigrant theatre and its history, contemporary performance art, and decolonial and activist practices in theatrical spaces. She is currently working on her second monograph, Theatre in Post-Migrant Germany: Performing Race, Migration and Coloniality Since 1945.

Dis:connected artistic genealogies, othered aesthetics – Brecht’s legacies in the artistic work of Türkisches Ensemble am Berliner Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer (1979-84) and Teatro Lautaro at Volksbühne Rostock (1974-81)

This project explores the artistic genealogies and aesthetics of the work of the two theatre groups, the Türkisches Ensemble am Berliner Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer (1979-84) and the Teatro Lautaro/ Volksbühne Rostock (1974-81), and their reciprocal relation to Brecht’s reception in their countries of origin as well as in East and West Germany.  The project focuses on their aesthetic and theoretical contribution to a transnational reception of Brecht and aims to make the artists and their work visible and accessible for the field of performance studies.