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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

is professor of media science at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Her areas of research are media Studies, gender theory, culture studies and philosophy. Latest publications: Der frühe Walter Benjamin und Hermann Cohen. Jüdische Werte, Kritische Philosophie, vergängliche Erfahrung (2000), Lara Croft. Modell, Medium, Cyberheldin. Das virtuelle Geschlecht und seine metaphysischen Tücken (2001) sowie Praktiken der Illusion. Kant, Nietzsche, Cohen, Benjamin bis Donna J. Haraway. (2007).

André Eiermann

teaches at the Institute for Theatre and Performance Studies of the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen. In the past he has taught at the University of Hamburg, Performance Studies, as well as in Siegen, Munich and Bern. Since 2008 he has been curator of the programme tent at the i-camp in Munich. Latest publication: Postspektakuläres Theater – Die Alterität der Aufführung und die Entgrenzung der Künste (2009).

Ulrike Haß

is professor of Theatre and performance studies at the Ruhr-University, Bochum. She has published on the forms of theatre of the early modern period, on the theory of images as well as on contemporary theatre and drama, among others on Elfriede Jelinek, Einar Schleef and Heiner Müller. Recent publications: Theater über Tage (Hg.. 2001-2005), Gott gegen Geld. Zur Zukunft des Politischen I (Hg.. 2002), Krieg der Propheten. Zur Zukunft des Politischen II (Hg.. 2004), Das Drama des Sehens. Auge, Blick und Bühnenform (2005), Ende der Vorstellung. Heiner Müller: Bildbeschreibung (Hg. 2005), Schauplatz Ruhr (Hg. 2007, 2008), Was ist eine Universität? (Hg. 2009).

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Rudi Laermans

is professor of Sociology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, dramaturg as well as visiting professor for Social and Cultural Theory at P.A.R.T.S in Bruxelles. His fields of research are: Social system theory, critical theory and sociology of creative work. He has published on Niklas Luhmann, Georg Simmel and Pierre Bourdieu as well as on contemporary dance and performance as for example the works of Jan Fabre, Meg Stuart, A.T. de Keersmaeker and Jan Lauwers.

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Nikolaus Müller-Schöll,

is professor of Theatre and performance studies at the University of Hamburg. Previous to that he has taught in Paris, Frankfurt/M., Bochum and Gießen as well as other universities. Major fields of interest include: the comical as paradigm of the experience of modernity (from the 17th to the 21. century), theories on theatre in relation to philosophy, politics and literature as well as experimental forms of contemporary theatre and performance.

Recent publications:Das Theater des „konstruktiven Defaitismus“. Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht und Heiner Müller (2002), Kleist lesen (Hg. 2003), Ereignis (Hg. 2003), Aisthesis (Hg. 2005), Politik der Vorstellung. Theater und Theorie (Hg. 2006), Schauplatz Ruhr (Hg. 2007), Heiner Müller sprechen (Hg. 2009).

osa

ist ein Architektennetzwerk, dessen 8 Mitglieder in unterschiedlichen europäischen Städten arbeiten und leben. osa beschäftigt sich an der Schnittstelle zwischen Architektur und Kunst mit der experimentellen Gestaltung städtischer Räume, mit dem Ziel tradierte Lesarten des städtischen Raums zu unterwandern.

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Laurence A. Rickels

is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and theoretician of Culture and Media Studies. He works as professor of German Literature, Comparative Literature, film studies and art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara and also as Sigmund Freud Professor for Media Studies and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee. His works on art, media, pop culture and politics incorporates psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan) and Critical Theory (especially Adorno/ Horkheimer and the Frankfurt School). In Germany he became well known for his study on Nazi Psychoanalysis in three volumes (2002). Other publications: I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick (2010), The Devil Notebooks (2008), Ulrike Ottinger: Eine Autobiographie des Kinos (2008), und The Case of California (1991).

Sergej Romashko,

works as artist, curator, scholar and translator of literary, philological and philosophical texts. Since 1976 he has been research appointee at the Academy of sciences of the USSR and later of russia. He has published on the theory of language and poetics, among others on German romanticism. Since 1979 he has been a member of the Moscow artist group "Collective actions" with whom he worked on topics such as event, collective, speaking, rhythm, spectator, doing nothing and fields of perception. An 800 page documentation on the Collective actions was published in the year of 1998 under the title Poezdki za gorod (Travels out of town).