Sex, Race and Power around the Stage
On 15 March Klaus Dörr resigned from office as the artistic director of Berlin Volksbühne. The debate in public had opened only two days before when the leftist newspaper taz run a long article about a group of ten women who worked in various functions and departments of Volksbühne and joined last summer to exchange information about experiences with sexual harassment by Dörr. In January they had informed the Berlin senator for culture, Klaus Lederer, followed by his examination of the accusations with Dörr in person in early March.