Prof. Dr.
Veronika Darian

Veronika Darian is Junior Professor for Contemporary Theatre in Historical Perspective with a focus on transmediality and transculturality at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig and board member of the Centre of Competence for Theatre there. After studying musicology, theater, German and Italian studies in Bonn and Leipzig, she received her doctorate on "Theater der Bildbeschreibung" (Munich 2011). Other publications (selection): "Gestische Forschung. Perspektiven und Praktiken" (Mithg., Berlin 2020), "Die Praxis der/des Echo. Zum Theater des Widerhalls" (Mithg., Frankfurt/M. 2015) and "Mind the Map! - History Is Not Given" (Mithg., Frankfurt/M. 2006). She researches, publishes, and teaches, increasingly collaboratively, especially on foreignness studies, theater studies of age(s) and thing(s), biography and narration in theater, dance, and performance, theater in society(s) in transformation, and "sites of stubbornness." She is working on the sub-study on the promotion of co-operations together with Dr. Melanie Gruß and Verena Sodhi, B.A., with whom she has already collaborated on the evaluation of the Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser (Alliance of International Production Houses).