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In Search of Lost Conflicts

Summary/Abstract: Friederike Felbeck begins her text on the Impulse Theater Festival (11-20.06.2015, Mülheim an der Ruhr) by describing the financial crisis that touched the festival last year and the figure of Florian Malzacher, who assumed management of the event. Then she PROVIDES an overview of the performances invited to this year's festival. Of these, she focuses on two: the euthanasia-themed Ibsen: Gespenster (byMarkus&Markus) and the spectacular Der Ur-Forst project by Hendrik Quast and Maika Knoblich, concerning the environment. The author also examines the blurring of the boundaries between independent theaters and municipal theaters (both FIND ROOM for experimentation), wondering about the necessity of an independent theater festival and its future editions.

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