Autor: Bahar Majdzadeh

Babylonia Constantinides studied Fine Arts and Media Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and German Literature and Art History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Her artistic work is represented in the collection of Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and arsenal – institut für film und videokunst. Within the framework of a cotutelle de these between the MIMESIS International Doctoral Program at LMU Munich and the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich she is currently working on her dissertation on biographical film. Simon Gröger studied Theater Studies and Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He graduated in 2017 with a study about the theatrical aesthetics of Michel Foucault”s conceptualization of parrhesia. Since 2017 he is a Ph D candidate at the MIMESIS International Doctoral Program at LMU Munich with a thesis about the aesthetics and political dynamics of staging past events in the works of theater director Milo Rau and his company, the International Institute of Political Murder. Elisa Leroy is a freelance dramaturg and scholar working in Munich, Berlin and Paris. She is currently completing her Ph D on Text and performance in Shakespeare”s Hamlet at the MIMESIS International Doctoral Program at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Her scholarly interests include Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama / theater practice, acting theory, and the intersection between theater and gender theory. She most recently collaborated with Thomas Ostermeier for La nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez by William Shakespeare (Comédie Française, 2018) and Qui a tué mon père? by Édouard Louis (FIND Festival, Schaubühne 2020). Doris Rebhan studied Arts of Africa, Philosophy and Religion & Culture at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her research she focuses on contemporary art in the context of transcultural negotiations, with particular interest in art of the African and Arab regions and questions of fiction and fake as strategies of critique. As a Ph D candidate at the MIMESIS International Doctoral Program at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich she is currently working on a dissertation on Fictional States as a reflection of contemporary concepts of the nation-state.