The theatre magazine Theater der Zeit has been following the developments of stage design for some years now in its “Kunstinserts”. We ask stage designers about their motivation, their working methods, the way they collaborate with directors, how their artistic practice unfolds in a theatre context. With a heuristic approach eschewing any claim to completeness, we promote discussion, whether it is to mark a new production or because the artists in question is breaking new ground in the development of theatre. In “Setting the Stage, Vol. 2” we have brought together seventeen of the most diverse artistic personalities; collectively they demonstrate how artistic considerations – at once purposeful and inevitable – function in the mode of an increasingly radical and con dent self-conception of the theatre as gesamtkunstwerk. The book is bilingual English / German.
