Fact-Check Late Night Show

This season, we will try something new: In collaboration with the investigative editorial team of DOSSIER, we will present an extraordinary series of events that explores the burning questions of our time. On four nights, we will analyse revelations, question narratives and examine new spaces. Journalism on stage – theatre meets research.

The audience is invited to think, ask questions and join in the discussion. You can expect surprising revelations from the research platform DOSSIER, interesting guests, humorous intermezzos, live music and an extraordinary atmosphere.

TOPIC ON JUNE 10: Has been rescheduled for a later date at the start of the new season.

The final edition of the season is dedicated to documentary theatre and the diverse forms, possibilities, and challenges of collaboration between theatre and journalism.

In an increasingly complex world shaped by ongoing crises, public discourse is becoming more and more influenced by emotions and opinions. When opinions are treated as facts and lies are politically instrumentalized, we speak of the so-called post-truth era. What role does journalism play in a “post-truth age”? What value does journalistic objectivity hold when truth itself becomes a form of opposition? And what does “truth” actually mean?

These journalistic questions are connected to the concept of documentary theatre by a panel consisting of Nuran David Calis (director and head of drama), Sarah Henker (dramaturge), Christiane Mudra (director), Florian Skrabal (publisher of DOSSIER), and Julia Herrnböck (journalist at DOSSIER).

In recent years especially, theatres have increasingly collaborated with investigative editorial teams such as DOSSIER to create stage productions based on journalistic research — a partnership between two fields in which facts, objectivity, and truth are key concepts, yet often understood in very different ways. What can collaboration between theatre makers and journalists look like? What are the possibilities and limitations of documentary theatre? Together with the audience, the panel discusses thematic, procedural, and aesthetic questions.