Starting the festival with the saloniere Angelika Wende discussing with her guests the topic “Performance? Theater was yesterday! ”

Panel guests include: Martin Baasch (curator of the Plateaux Festival, assistant to the artistic director, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt), Jan Deck (freelance director, dramaturg, curator of the performing arts, Frankfurt), Mamoru Iriguchi (performance artist and designer), Wolfgang Sautermeister (Performer and Artistic Director of the Künstlerhaus Zeitraumexit in Mannheim), Prof. dr. Gerald Siegmund (Head of Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies, Gießen) and Chief Dramaturge Marie Rötzer from the Staatstheater Mainz.