Professors emeritus
- Prof. Andrzej Wirth
- Andrzej Wirth (1927-2019), was the founder of the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (1982 – 1992). From 1966 on he taught at the universities of Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Oxford and London, at the City University of New York and the Free University Berlin. As theatre critic he wrote about Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Robert Wilson. Also, he led numerous theatre projects with students from America, Europe and Australia.
- Prof. Dr. Helga Finter
- Helga Finter was since 1991 professor at the Institut fuer Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft (Institute for Applied Theatre Studies) at the University of Giessen, Germany. She has published widely on subjectivity, voice, and gender in avantgarde theatre and performance. She is the author of Semiotik des Avantgarde-Textes (Stuttgart, 1980) on Italian Futurist Poetry and of Der subjektive Raum (2 vols.) on Mallarmé, Jarry, Roussel and Artaud (Tuebingen, 1990) and has edited with Georg Maag Die Schrift und das Unmögliche: Bataille lesen (Fink, 1992), and together with Gabriele Brandstetter and Markus Wessendorf Grenzgänge. Theater und die anderen Künste (Narr, 1998).
- Prof. h.c. Heiner Goebbels
- Heiner Goebbels, composer and director, has been working as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies since 1999. Since the winter semester 2003 until winter semester 2011 he has been the Managing Director of the institute. The main focus of his work is the artistic practice which has, since the beginning of his teaching, been constantly extended through improving training possibilities. Since then sound and video studios have been added to the stage, in which many artistic pieces can be worked on by students.