Jun.-Prof. Dr. Leon Gabriel

... where he leads the Emmy Noether Research Group “Dramaturgies in the Afterlife of Violence: Transnational Theater between the Global South and North” (DFG; May 2023 to April 2029; https://dramaturgies-afterlife.de ).

His current book project on Political Dramaturgy and Asymmetrical Relations analyzes, on the one hand, the epistemic violence inherent in the European conception of aesthetics and, on the other hand, contemporary art forms that engage with their social and ecological conditions. He is particularly interested in performance practices from the Andean region and Mexico, as well as from West and Central Africa.

From 2005 to 2011, he studied theater, film, and media studies, as well as psychoanalysis and Latin American studies, at Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Seville.

In 2017, he received his Ph.D. from Goethe University with the dissertation “Stages of Altermundiality: From the Image of the World to Spatial Theater Practice” (grade: summa cum laude; funded by the German National Academic Foundation; Open Access: https://neofelis-verlag.de/verlagsprogramm/wissenschaft/theater-performance/1025/buehnen-der-altermundialitaet).

From 2018 to April 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theater Studies at RUB.

In 2023, he was appointed to the W1-TT-W2 junior professorship in “Theater Studies with a Focus on Transnational Theater”.

Also in 2023, Gabriel received an offer for the W2 professorship in “Aesthetic Education with a Focus on the Performing Arts” at the University of Koblenz (declined).