2011/12

»Fear Eats the Soul«

Fear dominates our thinking and our politics. Fear of nuclear catastrophes, of the unknown, of losing one’s place in society. How rational are such fears? Which fears do we need? And what role in avoiding the hysterical, subversive power of fear does art play? During the 2011/12 season, the Schaubühne’s Streitraum will hold debates with artists, scientists and politicians.

The Debate Room is an event supported by the Schaubühne and the Bundeszentrale for political education.
www.bpb.de

Use of title with friendly permission of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation (RWFF).

Media partner: die tageszeitung, der Freitag
www.taz.de
www.freitag.de

Entry costs 2.50 Euro. School children, students and anyone else entitled to a concession can attend for free.

Concept

Since January, 2000 the Schaubühne has presented the monthly series »Streitraum«, inviting for public discussions leaders from around the world in cultural studies, the humanities and social sciences. Recent panelists have included Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Beaudrillard, Naomi Klein, Richard Rorty, Benjamin Barber, Joseph Stiglitz, Judith Butler, Eric Hobsbawn and Ryszard Kapusziski.

The series had its origin in the Baracke am Deutschen Theater, Berlin, where Jens Hillje began running it in 1996. Since then “Streitraum” has enjoyed great resonance through its high standard.

Carolin Emcke

Born in 1967, Carolin studied philosophy, politics and history in London, Frankfurt am Main and Harvard. She got her doctorate in philosophy on Collective identities. From 1998 to 2006 she was a staff writer at the Spiegel and a correspondent from several war zones. In 2003/04, Carolin was Visiting Lecturer for political theory at Yale University and gave seminars on Theories of violence and Second-hand testimony of war crimes; since 2007 she has been an international reporter for ZEIT.magazin. In 2005, she was awarded ,The Political Book of the Year’ for her book Echoes of violence – letters from a war reporter by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and in 2006 she won the Ernst Bloch Förderpreis. In October 2010 Carolin Emcke received the Otto Brenner prize for investigative journalism for her text on liberal racism (»Liberaler Rassismus«) published in Die Zeit; in December 2010 she was awarded with the Deutscher Reporterpreis in the category »Best Report« and she was elected »Journalist of the Year« by the jury of Medium Magazin.

www.carolin-emcke.de

Partners

The Streitraum (Debate Room) is an event of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.

www.bpb.de


Media Partners:
die tageszeitung
www.taz.de
der Freitag
www.freitag.de