Schauplätze der Gewalt

How can the forms and boundaries of community be conceived in a globalized world? This question runs through the artistic cosmos of Koffi Kwahul'e, who intertwines language, music, and violence in his theatrical texts. Through close readings and interdisciplinary analyses of three plays by the Ivorian-French author, Lisa Schiffers demonstrates how language, space, and body become performative stages of human vulnerability—thus opening new perspectives on community and transcultural coexistence: poetically, politically, and driven by the pulsating rhythm of jazz. Lisa Schiffers, born in 1988, earned her doctorate at the University of Hamburg and was a research associate at the Institute of Romance Studies there.