The Performance of Translation: Benjamin and Brecht on the Loss of Small Details

Coordinates the graduate college “Time Experience and Aesthetic Perception” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. His dissertation, Kommentar, Übersetzung, Theater in Walter Benjamins frühen Schriften (Commentary, Translation, Theatre in Walter Benjamin's Early Writings), was published in 1998 (Stroemfeld Verlag). His further research projects and articles focuson contemporary theatre, early 18th-century drama, and the relationship between theatre and film, in particular the works of Danile Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.