Erika Fischer-Lichte

Erika Fischer-Lichte, born in Hamburg in 1943, is professor of Theatre Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Her research focuses on aesthetics and art theory, the theory and history of the theatre, the aesthetics of contemporary theatre as well as the interrelations between different theatre cultures. Erika Fischer-Lichte has received numerous distinctions, among them an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 2006 and the Berliner Wissenschaftspreis in 2010. She became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.