In a collection of his most important essays on the theater texts by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Kleist, Buechner, Jahnn, Bataille, Brecht, Benjamin, Müller and Schleef, Hans-Thies Lehmann embarked on a search for these caesuras and subjected them to an opening reading. At the center of his reflections is nothing less than the constitution of the theatre as an aesthetic entity in general.
