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SUMMARY: A Stage of One’s Own: Multiculturalism\, migration\, and the strug
 gle to belong on the German stage
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Lily Climenhaga (Ghent University): A Stage of One’s Own: 
 Multiculturalism\, Migration\, and the Struggle to Belong on the German Sta
 ge Germany’s theatre culture is one of the best-funded in the world with ca
 . 140 publicly subsidized theatres currently in existence across the countr
 y. However\, despite these theatres’ historical and contemporary status as 
 liberal institutions\, […]
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 full" src="https://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2026/01
 /MGT.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="497" /></p><p><strong><a href="https:/
 /research.flw.ugent.be/en/lily.climenhaga">Dr. Lily Climenhaga</a> (Ghent U
 niversity): A Stage of One’s Own: Multiculturalism\, Migration\, and the St
 ruggle to Belong on the German Stage</strong></p><p><span class="">Germany’
 s theatre culture is one of the best-funded in the world with ca. 140 publi
 cly subsidized theatres currently in existence across the country. However\
 , despite these theatres’ historical and contemporary status as liberal ins
 titutions\, the German theatre landscape has struggled to navigate and inte
 grate broader societal conversations around multiculturalism\, migration\, 
 interculturalism\, integration\, and postmigration into their programs and 
 structures. Beginning with the emergence of Turkish-German playwrights on s
 ubsidized stages (particularly those found across Berlin) and the spread an
 d continuation of this movement by looking at productions such as </span><i
  class="">Schwarze Jungfrauen </i><span class="">[Black Virgins]</span><i c
 lass=""> </i><span class="">(Günter Senkel/Feridun Zaimoğlu\, HAU Berlin\; 
 </span><span class="">2006)\, </span><i class="">Verrücktes Blut</i><span c
 lass=""> [Crazy Blood] (Nurkan Erpulat/Jens Hillje\, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
  Berlin\; 2010)\, </span><i class="">The Situation </i><span class="">(Yael
  Ronen\, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin\; 2016)\, and </span><i class="">Mittel
 reich </i><span class="">[</span><span class="">Middle Kingdom\, a novel </
 span><span class="">by Josef Bierbichler] </span><span class="">(Anta Helen
 a Recke\, Münchner Kammerspiele Munich\; 2017)\, this lecture will examine 
 how German theatre has responded on- and offstage to questions of citizensh
 ip\, belonging\, and representation.</span></p><p><strong><img class="size-
 medium wp-image-24329 alignleft" src="https://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-conte
 nt/uploads/sites/25/2026/01/LC-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300"
  />Biography:</strong> Lily Climenhaga (PhD UAlberta/LMU) has spent ten yea
 rs working extensively around the directorial and institutional work of Swi
 ss-German theater maker Milo Rau and is currently completing the monograph\
 , <em>The Theatre of Milo Rau: Dramaturgical Dimensions</em>. Lily’s curren
 t SSHRC-funded postdoctoral project explores changing institutional dramatu
 rgies in Germany and Flanders. Recent special editions include: “Institutio
 nal Dramaturgies” (<em>Theater Magazine</em>\, 2025)\, “Milo Rau – Comparat
 ive Lenses” (<em>Documenta</em>\, 2025)\, and “Theaters of Post-Truth” (<em
 >Theater Magazine</em>\, 2025) as well as two forthcoming editions on Berli
 n’s Volksbühne and theatre manifestos.</p><h2>How to Attend</h2><p>This is 
 a hybrid event. Please join in-person from 2:00pm - 3:00pm in Buchanan Towe
 r 997\, or <a href="https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/h7iI4U6FSn6q8bg_8I
 THvQ"><strong>register here </strong></a>to join via Zoom.</p>
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