Biography PD Dr. Katharina Keim
E-Mail: K.Keim@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
PD Dr. Katharina Keim studied German and French philology as well as theatre studies in Munich and Paris and received a Ph.D. at the "DFG"-postgraduate programme "theatre as paradigm of modernity", led by Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte at the university of Mainz. Since 1999 she has been an assistant professor at the Institute of Theatre Studies in Munich; furthermore she taught at the "Akademie der Bildenden Künste München" as well as lectured within DAAD scholarships at the University of Temeswar/Romania and at the University of Alberta’s Drama Department in Edmonton, Canada.
Central to her research and teaching are theory and history of theatre and drama in the 17th and 18th century German-speaking world and France, theatre architecture, and newer forms of theatre in the 20th and 21st century, especially of the verbatim, multilingual, or transdisciplinary variety.