Figures de la matérialité dans la théorie du théâtre de Walter Benjamin.: Entre Asja Lacis et Brecht

In 1924, even before he had written his most famous essays, Walter Benjamin met in Italy the Latvian playwright Asja Lacis. For the German philosopher, it would be one of the most significant episodes in his existence, first of all in a sentimental way because she would become one of the three most important women in his life. Secondly, in a political point of view, as for the very first time she initiated him to Marxism, to which he would be loyal even during the Third Reich, pushing him to exile. Eventually, last but not least, because it is from these conversations with Lacis that Benjamin matured his own vision of a militant theatre. After that, with the most known discovery of Brecht's theatre, this reflexion became even more accurate, until embracing the new concept of an epic theatre. Pedagogic intention, dialectical interruption, collective consciousness and liberation of the gesture are between the images of Benjamin's materialistic theory on theatre.