Wie war das nochmal? – 25 Jahre FFT

In the organizer's words:

In our series What was that like again? we remember special moments from 25 years of FFT. This time, as part of the ON/LIVE festival, we talk about digital, interactive performances at the FFT before, during and after the pandemic.

Since 2010, the FFT has been working closely with the media theater collective machina eX, which interweaves participatory performances with narrative styles from computer games and thus appeals to a whole new audience. We at the FFT have dubbed these and similar forms of theater "theater of the digital natives" in reference to the research of art didact Torsten Meyer.

Five years after the pandemic, the field of digital, interactive performance has changed a lot, which is also reflected in our program. Nevertheless, we will never forget the experiments that enabled us to come together digitally during the lockdown despite contact restrictions.

We talk to Susanne Schuster, Torsten Meyer and Clara Ehrenwerth about theater games, lockdowns and "the people formerly known as the audience".