ABSTRACT
In Germany, theatre by immigrants and artists of colour has been excluded for a long time from the theatre scene and largely ignored by theatre critics and German theatre studies. The initiation of the post-migrant theatre at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin in 2008 evoked a fundamental transformation within the German theatre scene. The German theatre has become more diverse and artists of colour are more represented on state and city theatres. This chapter focuses on the impact as well as the ambiguities and controversies of post-migrant theatre. It investigate from a historical point of view, how the label has generated a space and a political momentum, which has spread beyond the theatrical landscape but also created (wittingly or unwittingly) a rift between artists, communities and post-and migrant theatre makers.
