Transculturality in theatre? Susanne Kennedy’s production of Marieluise Fleißer’s Purgatory in Ingolstadt at the Munich Kammerspiele

Abstract

The German-speaking contemporary theater has become increasingly transnational. Aesthetics, artists, critics and the audience now participate in global mobility. A very good example of this trend is Susanne Kennedy’s production of Marieluise Fleißer’s Purgatory in Ingolstadt at the Munich Kammerspiele. Their aesthetics of installation art and the importance of ontic-ontological difference for the theater aesthetics support the relation between local popular theatre, regional director’s theatre and international avant-garde aesthetics. In this sense, this work in German director’s theatre is a transcultural production.