25 November 2026 - 7 pm
Location: Media Library for Dance and Theatre at ITI
Language: German
Free admission.
Li Jing is one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Chinese theatre. With intellectual acuity and great formal originality, she draws on historical material in her plays—including Lu Xun (2013), The Comedy of Qin (2017), and The Coat of Rong Yi (2021)—she explores historical material and examines it in light of the moral and political conflicts of our time. In doing so, she has repeatedly come into conflict with state censorship.
Li Jing will be a guest at the ITI on November 25. Following an introduction, actors Paul Tolle and Rike Gilles will read selected passages from Lu Xun in German translation. Afterward, the author and her translators—Sinologists Anna Stecher and Stefan Christ—will engage in a discussion with the audience, moderated by theater scholar Torsten Jost.
In collaboration with the Blaues Haus Foundation.
