Abstract (eng)
The Theatre of the Oppressed prevails within an area of tension between its own demands
and the basic conditions of society. The paper at hand deals with the question of whether
the Theatre of the Oppressed contributes to societal conditions through the creation of
emancipatory forms, ways of living and of learning, or reproduces dominances and thus
works counterproductively. A critical assessment of this form of theatre, which understands itself to be critical of
domination and anti-authoritarian, is to be carried out by means of a comparison with
nonhierarchical education. Given that both the Theatre of the
Oppressed and nonhierarchical educational approaches primarily draw upon a repressive concept of power, poststructuralist approaches are added to the comparison in a further step.