The volume documents contributions from the 15th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft and offers an overview of the topics currently perceived and discussed as urgent by theatre scholars from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The title of the volume is to be understood in a double sense: ‘Matters’ as topics and fields of research that are brought to the attention of theatre studies due to their social relevance, but also as an indication of the materiality and mediality of the confrontation with these topics.

"Matters of Urgency – Herausforderungen der Gegenwart in Theater und Wissenschaft“ is published exclusively online in Open Access. The publication can be accessed via our Webshop and the DepositOnce repository (https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-22414).