Foreword / by Christopher Balme -- Scenographic Practices and Aesthetics in Contemporary German Theatre, Arts and Design: An Introduction / Birgit Wiens -- PART ONE. Scenography in and beyond the Theatre: Aesthetics and Epistemes. 1. 'I am trying to add more layers to the story'. From the model to the stage: Artistic thinking and design practices in Aleksandar Denic's theatre works with Frank Castorf and others / a conversation between Aleksandar Denic and Birgit Wiens -- 2. Notes on Bert Neumann's Stage and Costume Designs: Scenography as a Co-Player and Counterpart in Theatre Performances and Rehearsals / a conversation with Sophie Rois -- 3. Scenographic materiality: Agency and Intra-Action in stage designs by Katrin Brack / Joslin McKinney -- 4. Composing scenography: Reflexions on theories, practices and processes of Klaus Gruenberg's collaborations with Heiner Goebbels and others / joint contribution by David Roesner and Klaus Grünberg -- 5. Spatial reorganizations and moving dynamics of the active spectator / Thomas Irmer -- PART TWO. Circulation of Scenographic Knowledge and Cultural Transfer. 6. Notation: On the aesthetic potentials and epistemic functions of scenographic scores / Kirsten Maar -- 7. One cannot not stage: Scenography – beyond theatre: Scenographic practices in museums, exhibitions and corporate design / Uwe R. Brueckner and Linda Greci -- 8. The Art of Thinking and Designing Space: Notes from the Studio / Annett Zinsmeister -- 9. Don't be afraid of the art of parCITYpation: Scenographic intervention as social design / Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius -- PART THREE. Rethinking Scenography. 10. The ungovernableness of the scene / Dieter Mersch -- 11. Scenography and actor-network-theory: Analytical approaches / Wolf-Dieter Ernst -- 12. Scenography: Research, education and training in Germany: Some observations / Thea Hoffmann-Axthelm and Robert Kraatz -- Staging the unknown: Scenography and its future potentials: Preliminary résumé / Serge von Arx and Birgit Wiens.