The Future of Theatre Documentation
Symposium
How can an ephemeral art form such as theatre be capturedfor posterity? Inspired by Brecht and Felsenstein’s works for the theatre, 50 years ago members of the Performing Arts Section at the Akademie (in the GDR) initiated a plan to document theatre productions. Bettina Bartz, Barbara Gronau, Susanne Knapp, Annemarie Matzke, Sergio Morabito, Luk Perceval, Stephan Suschke, et al., discuss the procedures documenting a complex, collective process of artistic production, and how such documentation can be made transparent to the public.