Dr.
Theresa Schütz

Theresa Schütz has been working as a research associate at the interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies. Dynamics of Coexistence in Moving Worlds” at the FU Berlin. As part of this, she completed her doctorate in 2021 on strategies of audience involvement in immersive theater (“Theater der Vereinnahmung”, Berlin 2022); further focal points in research and teaching are artist collectives in the past and present, dis_ability aesthetics and institutional change in the arts and cultural institutions. She studied cultural and media management at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg. In the summer semester of 2024, she taught as a visiting professor of philosophy at the Folkwang University of the Arts. 
Since 2013 she has regularly published theater and performance reviews, mainly for Theater der Zeit and nachtkritik; jury activities for NEUSTART KULTUR programs, Theaterpreis des Bundes and Preis der jungen Dramatik.