Deadline Call: 30.April 2026
Date of the show:?7 June 2026 | Caf¨¦ Nerly, Marktstra?e 6, 99084 Erfurt | Deadline: 30 April 2026

Tricksters are characters who can skilfully disrupt a given order. We encounter tricksters in mythology, literature, theatre and also in areas of the medialised public sphere such as politics. They walk between worlds, provoke, break rules. It is often difficult to determine who is good and who is evil.
In the SalonTrickSTAR, organised by the Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics" and the Professorship for the History of Science at the University of Erfurt in cooperation with local actors from the performing arts, various trickster figures will perform and historians and artists will discuss the subversive potential of Arts in times of a carnivalesque present together with the audience. How do political spaces and their analysis and critique change when actors in positions of power adopt subversive strategies? And how can Arts react to a situation where reality often seems like satire?
The Salon TrickSTAR is intended to be an experimental free space in which scientific analysis of the present and artistic positions meet. To this end, we are looking for artistic contributions from the performing arts that either operate specifically with the figure of the trickster or see themselves in some other way as a subversive contribution to contemporary culture.
The contributions should have a length of 5 to 15 minutes and be realisable with little technical effort (no light changes, adaptable for an open space concept, no large structures). The submitted contributions can be excerpts from existing works or stand-alone formats. In addition, we would like to see a willingness to participate in discussions with scientists and the audience.

We offer an evening fee of 350€ per contribution as well as a lump sum for travel and accommodation costs.
Please send submissions by?30 April 2026?to Sonja Kessner and Johanna H¨¹gel at the following address?forschungsstelle.wahrheit@uni-erfurt.deExternal link - either in the form of a video recording (for excerpts from finished works) or as a short pitch together with a CV and a link to past works.