Patrick Primavesi

Biography

Patrick Primavesi is a professor at the Institute for Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig and director of the Dance Archive Leipzig. He wrote his PhD on Walter Benjamin's theories of commentary, translation and theatre, and taught at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he set up the masters programme in dramaturgy together with Hans-Thies Lehmann. His habilitation dissertation appeared in 2008 under the title “Das andere Fest. Theater und Öffentlichkeit um 1800”. His other research and publication interests include the theatre of antiquity, Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller, the theory and practice of contemporary forms of theatre, dance and performance, theatre and film, as well as interventions in urban space.