Erika Fischer-Lichte

Fischer-Lichte is one of the most prolific performance scholars in the German academic landscape. Her wide-ranging work has significantly shaped the discipline of Theaterwissenschaft (Theatre and Performance Studies) in the past decades. Her foregrounding of the performance event and the interactions between performers and spectators emphasizes the transformative power performances can have over their participants. This forms the basis of her research regarding the aesthetics and politics of performances as well as the knowledge they generate, and their related epistemologies. Her publication record is expansive and comprises books on the theory and history of theatre and performance as well as on aesthetics, performativity and interart phenomena.