Gerd Taube

Prof. Dr. Gerd Taube, theatre scholar, has been Director of the Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrums in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Children’s and Young People’s Theatre Centre in the Federal Republic of Germany) in Frankfurt am Main since 1997 and Artistic Director of the biennial national festival of theatre for young audiences AUGENBLICK MAL! in Berlin. He is an honorary professor at the Institut für Jugendbuchforschung (Institute for Youth Book Research) at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, where he teaches the theory and history of theatre for children and young people and dramatic literature for children and young people. He's the author of The Dramaturgy of Theatre for Early Years (Pendragon, 2024).