Professor Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann (b. 1944, Ehringshausen, Germany) is a distinguished theatre scholar and critic in his home country Germany as well as abroad. He was the University Professor for Theatre Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Franfurt am Main (1988-2010) and played a leading role in creating the major of Theatre Studies and the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies.

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He has been Visiting Professor to Universities in various countries, such as The Netherlands, France, Lithuania, Poland, the U.K., Canada and the U.S.A. He has lectured in Brazil, Chile, China, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, Malta, among many other places. He has done dramaturgy for Büchner by Falk Richter (author and director) and for Mount Olympus by Jan Fabre. He has been invited as jury to well-known theatre festivals around the world (Frankfurter Hörspielpreis, Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis, Grabbe-Preis, etc.) and has served in various official positions as well (including as advisor for the Theater-Festival Argos in Greece, for Attis Theater Athens, the Felix Meritis Foundation Amsterdam, the theater group Angelus Novus, Schauspiel Bonn, Staatstheater Stuttgart, etc.).

Postdramatic Theatre, one of the most important theatre studies published in the last twenty years. To this date (2018) the book has been translated in 26 languages

He has been an important commentator on Brecht and Heiner Müller and has published several important books, notably among them, Postdramatic Theatre, which has been translated in 26 languages (!).

In 2018, Prof. Lehmann was honored at the International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre, Cairo, Egypt and the Thalia Prize of the International Association of Theatre Critics (October 14, 2018, St Petersburg)

In 2018, Prof. Lehmann was honored at the International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre, Cairo, Egypt and the Thalia Prize of the International Association of Theatre Critics (October 14, 2018, St Petersburg).

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Principal Publications
  1. Beiträge zu einer materialistischen Theorie der Literatur. Ullstein 1977
  2. Bertolt Brechts “Hauspostille” – Text und kollektives Lesen (zus. mit Helmut Lethen). Metzler-Verlag 1978.
  3. Theater und Mythos. Die Konstitution des Subjekts im Diskurs der antiken Tragödie. Stuttgart 1991.
  4. The Brecht Yearbook, Band 17. Der Andere Brecht. University of Wisconsin Press 1992. (Editor,tog. with Renate Voris).
  5. Arbeitsfelder der Theaterwissenschaft. Forum Modernes Theater. Bd. 15, Tübingen 1994. (Editor, tog. with Erika Fischer-Lichte und Wolfgang Greisenegger).
  6. Postdramatic Theatrer. Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  7. Das politische Schreiben. Essays zu Theatertexten, Theater der Zeit Berlin 2002.
  8. Heiner Müller Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung. (Editor, tog. with Patrick Primavesi, Mitarbeit: Olaf Schmitt) Stuttgart 2003.
  9. Theater in Japan. Theater der Zeit Recherchen 64, Berlin 2009. (Editor, tog. with Hirata Eiichiro)
  10. Populärkultur im Gegenwartstheater (Hg. zus. mit Martina Gross, Berlin 2012)
  11. Tragödie und dramatisches Theater, Alexanderverlag Berlin (autumn 2013). Translation: Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre. Routledge 2016; Translation: Tragedia y teatro dramático. Mexico 2017.
  12. Brecht lesen. Theater der Zeit. Berlin 2016. Translation: Leer a Brecht. 2018
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Introducing Hans-Thies Lehmann