The Posmigrant Theater in German: pathways of institutionalization

Abstract

In this paper we draw up a critical path of the concept and practice of the so-called postmigrant theatre, that has been developing itself as an independent theatrical practice since the dawn of the 21st century, first in the city of Berlin, but the in other German-speaking theatrical milieus. From the reconstruction of the background, history and fluctuations of the phenomenon, together with the consideration of some examples of postmigrant theatre in recent years, we provide a general theoretical-descriptive framework and we place special emphasis on the discussion of certain traits and ways of this kind of theatrical practice, as inciting changes in processes of institutionalization and consecration of theatre in the German cultural sphere. Finally, we propose a reflection of the phenomenon beyond the immediate contingency of his appearance, in order to discuss it as a “cultural ecology” (LADDAGA, 2006) that links its production and dynamics of work with the ones of other artistic formations of the beginning of the XXI century.