Radka Kunderová, Principal Investigator of the "Theatre ReDefined" research project, interviews Professor Christopher Balme (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) about the pre- and post-1989 developments in the German theatre. The interview discusses the period of the 1990s and the change of the theatre's functioning after 1989 and German reunification, as well as current crisis of German theatre in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.