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Über kaum ein anderes Land wird in Deutschland so viel gestritten wie über Israel. Warum ist diese Debatte so emotional – und oft so vergiftet?

Wer macht Theater? Wer spricht für wen? Welche Rolle spielt dabei Gender? Und was bedeutet es, Publikum zu sein?

Bertolt Brecht was not only a playwright, theatre theoretician, political thinker and the founder of Berliner Ensemble but also an exceptionally gifted poet and singer-songwriter avant la lettre.

"'Woyzeck' is about delusion and obsessions, about children and about murder – and all of these things touch us. The play is wild and hot and exciting and inspires our imagination. It makes us scared for the characters and consider our own lives.

"AI: We will live – well, live – when the rain and the cold come, when the heat is burning up the trees, we will be here, while you are on the road – looking for the better world – we will still be here when it has finally gone quiet.

Hardly any other topic leads to such fierce controversies and ambivalent emotions as the business of sex work. Although sex work is legal in Germany, many sex workers still live in precarious circumstances.

During the economic boom of post-war Germany, nobody wanted to be associated with the issues: the Nazi-crimes of the past, the rupture of civilisation and the Holocaust. The murders were banished from memory, but the pain remained.

Whether it was during his time at Eton College or as an imperial policeman of the colonial powers in Burma, whether he washed dishes, worked as a journalist or fought Franco’s regime in Spain – throughout his life, George Orwell had a fine sense o