Hans-Thies Lehmann

Hans-Thies Lehmann, born in 1944, was professor of theatre studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1988 until his retirement in 2010. Guest lectureships took him to the universities of Amsterdam, Paris III, Paris VIII, Vienna, Cracow, Tokyo, Madison, Berkeley and Kent. He has published numerous books on contemporary theatre, on the theory of the theatre, on aesthetic theory, on Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller and, most recently, an opus magnum of more than 700 pages: “Tragödie und dramatisches Theater” (Alexander Verlag, Berlin, 2013). He was a guest dramaturg for “Mount Olympus”, Jan Fabre’s 24-hour project on Ancient Greek mythology, which will see its world premiere at Foreign Affairs.

As of May 2015