Trigger warnings in the theater: Now it’s getting uncomfortable – culture

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Till Briegleb

Trigger warnings are booming in culture right now. But even with the rapidly increasing willingness of cultural institutions to protect their visitors from unpleasant experiences, the kind of care that the “Theaterformen” festival does is really extraordinary. On the website of the Lower Saxony cultural event, which takes place alternately in Hanover and Braunschweig, there were pages of reference to “stimuli that can potentially be triggers” for the current summer edition under the heading “Accessibility”.

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