The exhibition “Epoch Theater – The Climate Crisis on the German Stage” at Farber Library of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, shown from August to November 2026, “brings together photographic works documenting contemporary theater productions in Germany that engage the climate crisis through the legacy of Bertolt Brecht and the methods of epic theater. Rather than presenting climate change as catastrophe alone or as a distant abstraction measured only through graphs, targets, and forecasts, the exhibition approaches climate as a social relation: historical, material, political, and staged.” (https://www.brandeis.edu/cges/news-events/fall-2026/260826-climate-theater.html)

The exhibition was curated by Brendan O’Donnell and Sabine von Mering and organized by the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University and Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC’s Climate & Environment Program. The catalogue published here with the permission of the curators is an in-depth documentation in texts and images.