is Professor for Theatre Studies and Head of the MA Programme Dramaturgie at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt/M. His research focuses on the comical as a paradigm of modern experience (17th–20th century); (re)presentation “after Auschwitz”; theatre architecture as built ideology; questions between theatre, philosophy, politics, and literature, including topics of alterity, fictionizing the political and potentiality, as well as experimental forms of contemporary theatre and performance.