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What does privacy mean to you?

We pose this question to artists, authors and industry experts from Europe and the United States. Listen to their answers in interviews appearing on this page over the coming months.
Jens Zimmermann: Which Haystack Has the Needle? © Goethe-Institut Washington

Member of the German Bundestag and the NSA Enquiry Committee
 Jens Zimmermann: Which Haystack Has the Needle?

Vivian Grosswald Curran: Wie die Digitalisierung unsere Rechte erodiert © Goethe-Institut Washington

Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, and President, The American Society of Comparative Law
 Vivian Grosswald Curran: Digitalization is Encroaching

Heidi Tworek: Privacy Shapes Our News © Goethe-Institut Washington

Assistant Professor of International History, University of British Columbia
 Heidi Tworek: Privacy Shapes Our News

Philipp Krüger: Gemeinsame Regeln schaffen © Goethe-Institut Washington

Foundation for New Responsibility, Berlin
 Philipp Krüger: Rules for the Road

Trevor Paglen: What Does Privacy Mean to You? © Goethe-Institut Washington

Artist
 Trevor Paglen: What Does Privacy Mean to You?

Michael Gordin: Privacy vs. Fake News © Goethe-Institut Washington

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
 Michael Gordin: Privacy vs. Fake News

Nate Larson: Sharing Information and Protecting Privacy © Goethe-Institut Washington

Artist
 Nate Larson: Sharing Information and Protecting Privacy

Jules Polonetsky: My Day is Conflicted © Goethe-Institut Washington Jules Polonetsky: My Day is Conflicted © Goethe-Institut Washington

Chief Executive Officer of the Future of Privacy Forum
 Jules Polonetsky: My Day is Conflicted

Simon Menner: Who is the Target Group for the Surveillance Apparatus? © Goethe-Institut Washington Simon Menner: Who is the Target Group for the Surveillance Apparatus? © Goethe-Institut Washington

Artist
 Simon Menner: Who is the Target Group for the Surveillance Apparatus?

Thomas Drake: I Start with the Foundation © Goethe-Institut Washington

Former senior executive at the NSA
 Thomas Drake: I Start with the Foundation

John Vigg: Learning about You through your Friends © Goethe-Institut Washington

Artist
 John Vigg: Learning about You through your Friends

Niko van Eijk: Privacy by the Minute © Goethe-Institut Washington

Director of the Institute for Information Law (University of Amsterdam)
 Niko van Eijk: Privacy by the Minute

Daniel Schwarz: Visibility and Surveillance © Goethe-Institut Washington

Artist
 Daniel Schwarz: Visibility and Surveillance

Kevin Bankston: Abhören ohne Vollmacht © Goethe-Institut

Director of New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute
 Kevin Bankston: Warrantless Wiretapping

LECTRR: Fame = You Are Public Domain © Goethe-Institut Washington © Goethe-Institut Washington

Cartoonist
 LECTRR: Fame = You Are Public Domain

Jan Philipp Albrecht: Privacy Means Informational Self-Determination © Hannibal Hanschke © Hannibal Hanschke

Politician
 Jan Philipp Albrecht: Privacy Means Informational Self-Determination

AnnieLaurie Erickson: Peering Back into the Surveillance Apparatus © Goethe-Institut Washington © Goethe-Institut Washington

Artist
 AnnieLaurie Erickson: Peering Back into the Surveillance Apparatus

Paul Nolte: Is there a Right NOT to be Forgotten? © Goethe-Institut Washington

German Historian
 Paul Nolte: Is there a Right NOT to be Forgotten?

Andrew Crocker: It's getting dark © Goethe-Institut Washington

Staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
 Andrew Crocker: It's getting dark

Marianne Birthler: Why should the state protect something I don’t want to protect myself? © Goethe-Institut Washington

Former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records
 Marianne Birthler: Why should the state protect something I don’t want to protect myself?

Trevor Paglen: Art Responds to a Surveillance State © Goethe-Institut Washington

Artist
 Trevor Paglen: Art Responds to a Surveillance State

Joseph Lorenzo Hall: Hacking Back, Opting Out, and Being Forgotten (c) Goethe-Institut Washington

Center for Democracy and Technology
 Joseph Lorenzo Hall: Hacking Back, Opting Out, and Being Forgotten

Hans Engler: A Mathematician's Perspective © Goethe-Institut Washington

Professor
 Hans Engler: What's Mathematics Got to Do with Privacy?

Jessalyn Radack © Goethe-Institut Washington

Whistleblower
 Jesselyn Radack: Can Liberty and Security Go Hand-in-Hand?

Amie Stepanovich © Goethe-Institut Washington

Access Now
 Amie Stepanovich: Privacy is More Than a Stepping Stone

Salman Rushdie © Goethe-Institut Washington

Author
 Salman Rushdie: Keeping My Life Private

John Kiriakou © Goethe-Institut Washington

Whistleblower
 John Kiriakou: When Your Name is on the Hit List

James Spione © Goethe-Institut Washington

Filmmaker
 James Spione: Do We Have Rights or Privileges?

Articles

Kevin Place, P3M5 Coordinator Five Minute Plays from UVA

In conversation with the P3M5 plays, Professor Doug Grissom led students in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia in the creation of their own new plays that respond to the same prompt: “What does privacy mean to you in the digital age?”

Gillian Drake, Creator/Co-Producer, Digital Eye @BlindWhino Digital Eye @BlindWhino (DE@BW) Production Report

Digital Eye @BlindWhino was developed to fulfill a goal of some of the original P3M5 partners: to create a performance event which celebrates the brilliant micro-plays commissioned through P3M5.

Schauspielhaus Graz, Austria Theater Festival June 2017 P3M5 Participates in the 2017 Playwrights Festival at Schauspielhaus Graz

The Schauspielhaus Graz organized their second Playwrights Festival June 6 – 11, 2017. The theme of the event was privacy. Short films from the P3M5 plays were presented in a video installation during the festival, and a number of the commissioned playwrights attended and participated in a discussion.

Interview with Karla Mäder, Head Dramaturge, Schauspielhaus Graz, Austria June 2017 Private Matter and the Schauspielhaus Graz

Wilfried Eckstein, former director of the Goethe-Institut Washington, speaks with Karla Mäder, Head Dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Graz, about their Dramatists' Festival and the role of the festival.

Interview with Iris Laufenberg, Artistic Director, Schauspielhaus Graz, Austria June 2017 Politics and Art

Wilfried Eckstein, former director of the Goethe-Institut Washington, speaks with Iris Laufenberg, artistic director at the Schauspielhaus Graz, about their Dramatists' Festival and the role of the art in addressing political issues.

Internet Security Your Toaster’s Double Life

Illustration Webprojekt Global Control and Censorship © Goethe-Institut/Julia Klement How can we navigate the internet without leaving a trail? Why do we distinguish between black-hat and white-hat hackers? And what exactly are crypto wars? Questions on data privacy and security in the internet often sound complicated. But many of them are answered very simply.

OmniPresence by Denmark's Kassandra Production May 2017 OMNIPRESENCE: A Privacy Performance Piece

OmniPresence, created by Danish performer and director Annika B. Lewis and her company Kassandra Production, helps to expand the artistic scope of P3M5 beyond dialogue-centric plays and films into the realm of performance and installation art. The project takes place inside and around an obscure surveillance van in a public space.

Gao Qing, Executive Director, Confucius Institute U.S. Center Chinese Privacy: P3M5 outside the Transatlantic Context

In an effort to discuss privacy beyond the transatlantic scope of the P3M5, the Goethe-Institut Washington partnered with the Confucius Institute at George Mason University, which has commissioned plays and films by Chinese authors on the same question that the European and American playwrights have responded to: “What does privacy mean to you in the digital age?”
 

James Harding, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Surveillance and Privacy, A Decade after "Das Leben der Anderen"

It has been over a decade since Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck wrote and directed Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), a not altogether historically accurate yet nonetheless interesting film from 2006 about the destructive methods of surveillance employed by the East German Secret Police (STASI). Watching von Donnersmarck’s film today is an odd exercise.

Russell Miller, Washington & Lee University Privacy

There are things I’d prefer to keep secret. Unkown. Unspoken. Undisclosed. I would offer some examples, but that would defeat the purpose, wouldn’t it.

Jules Polonetsky, Future of Privacy Forum Self-Driving Cars, Personalized Medicine and the Internet of Things

Technologies that Will Bridge the Transatlantic Privacy Divide?
Germany and the United States are leading examples of two very different approaches to articulating data protection safeguards, particularly when it comes to the private sector.

Kevin Place, P3M5 Coordinator The Values behind Privacy

At the core of P3M5 is the idea that there is a discord between the understanding of privacy in Europe and in the United States. What led to this discord? What was the consensus before? Why does it matter?

Wilfried Eckstein, Goethe-Institut Washington The Impulse for P3M5

Why privacy? Why theater? Why P3M5? Wilfried Eckstein, former director of the Goethe-Institut Washington, answered these questions at the 2016 Theatre Communications Group Conference in Washington, DC.

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