Streitraum
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| Genre | political panel discussion |
| Frequency | 4 to 6 weeks |
| Location(s) | Schaubühne, Lehniner Platz, Berlin |
| Inaugurated | 2000 |
| People | Carolin Emcke |
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Streitraum (Conflict Room) is a series of public panel discussions held at the Schaubühne in Berlin since January 2000. Each season focuses on a different theme from the areas of politics and society. In moderated discussions held every four to six weeks before an audience of international guests, invited experts discuss topics from the areas of politics, culture, technology, media, and the human and natural sciences. The series has been organised and moderated by Carolin Emcke since 2004. Emcke states at the opening of each event that Streitraum is not a forum for arguments and conflict but rather an opportunity to watch people think. Each session ends with questions from the audience.
Jason Farago of BBC Culture has regarded Streitraum as "an intelligent and aggressive public lecture series".
The theme of the 2014–15 season was Auf der Suche nach der Demokratie – oder: Öffentlichkeit und Misstrauen (In search of democracy – or: Publicity and mistrust). The season opened with Keine Demokratie. Nirgends?, a discussion with Deirdre Curtin, professor of European law, on the role of the economy and secret services in politics. In the second event, Alain Badiou and Thomas Ostermeier discussed the legitimacy and authority of democracy from the perspective of philosophy and theatre.
Two discussions were dedicated to the conflict in Russia and the Ukraine. The title Denk ich an Russland ... (When I think of Russia ..., after Heine's Denk ich an Deutschland ...) was given to the discussions between Emcke and her guests – who included Alice Bota, Nino Haratischwili and Katja Petrowskaja – about the relevance of fiction to an evaluation of the actual political situation in these regions. Another discussion, Rechtsradikalismus – im blinden Fleck der Demokratie? (Far-right politics – in the blind spot of democracy?), with Aiman Mazyek, Christoph Möllers, Özlem Topçu and Antonia von der Behrens, covered German domestic policy, focusing on the NSU.
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