Berliner Theatertreffen

The Berlin Theatre Meeting is an annual event organized by the cultural institution Berliner Festspiele GmbH and is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. With an invitation to the theater meeting the ten most remarkable German-language theater productions a season are excellent. The selection is made by a jury of seven theater critics. The decision on the invitation usually falls in February one year, the two-week festival takes place in the following May. Festival Centre is the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Schaperstraße (Wilmersdorf ). In addition, various Berlin theaters are recorded and possibly based alternative venues to meet the special requirements of spatial invited productions needs. The tickets for the theater meetings are very popular every year.

The first theater meeting took place in 1964. From 2003 to 2011, the theater meeting of Iris Laufenberg was conducted. Since 2012, Yvonne Büdenhölzer who previously oversaw the Stückemarkt, has taken the lead. There are now around the meeting an extensive program of discussions, awards, audience discussions, films, premiere parties and concerts. A European Stückemarkt introduces new pieces and authors. In staged readings they get the chance to demonstrate their suitability for the stage to the test. The TV station 3sat reported in detail during the festival performances and shows partially live on television.

Awards

As part of the theater meeting three prizes will be awarded: The Berlin Theatre Prize of the Foundation for Prussian Seehandlung is awarded to a person or group who has rendered outstanding services to the German -speaking theater. The 3sat Prize honors a pioneering, artistic and innovative power from the charged productions of the theater meeting and Alfred Kerr Actor award recognizes the outstanding performance of a / r young actor / spielerin.

Talents

In theater, meetings, there are three talent platforms for the promotion of young artists. The Stückemarkt presents new pieces previously undiscovered European authors. The International Forum invites theater artists from around the world to Berlin, visiting together the productions of the theater meeting and deal in various workshops with issues of contemporary theater. In the theater -Blog a changing annually team of young journalists wrote about the festival.

The Stückemarkt is an explorer Festival for unknown authors from all over Europe. It was founded in 1978 and is the oldest funding initiative for contemporary drama in Germany. For an annually changing theme can submit playwright and theater publishers new, unperformed pieces. The Stückemarkt jury selects the entries from texts for dramatic readings and further invites selected authors to take a playwriting workshop. The Stückemarkt gives two prizes donated by Heinz and Heide Dürr Foundation Award (endowed with 5,000 euros ) and presented in collaboration with the Federal Agency for Civic Education work commissioned by the tt Stückemarkt ( 7,000 euros ), both connected to a premiere of new drama. One of the selected texts will be adapted and sent from Germany radio culture as a radio play. The Stückemarkt authors of recent years include, among others Anja Hilling, Nuran David Calis, Dirk Laucke, Thomas Freyer, Philipp Löhle, Anne Habermehl, Oliver Kluck and Nis - Momme Stockmann.

The International Forum is a two week program for international theater makers to 35 years, the drama work in the field. The International Forum takes place parallel to the theater meeting and includes workshops, visits to the theater meeting performances and workshop discussions, which enables participants to exchange ideas practically and theoretically in the frame. The workshop program is under an annually changing theme.

For Theatre Meeting 2009 was launched as a successor to the festival newspaper, the theater -Blog into life, where young arts journalists the theater meeting as online editors to three weeks and accompany behind the scenes. Annually in winter, interested journalists can apply as a theater meeting bloggers.

Under the umbrella of the Berlin Festival is in addition to the three talent platforms of the theater meeting that contact the professional theater junior, since 1980 every year the Young People's Theater instead, which brings selected productions of youth theater companies in Berlin performance and embedded in a framework program of workshops and expert meetings.

Invitations

Subsequently, the invited productions of the previous theater meeting:

• Berlin Theatre Meeting 1964-1969
• Berlin Theatre Meeting 1970-1979
• Berlin Theatre Meeting 1980-1989
• Berlin Theatre Meeting 1990-1999
• Berlin Theatre Meeting 2000-2009
• Berlin Theatre Meeting 2010-2019

Film

• 50 years theater meeting. We 're going to Berlin! Documentary, Germany, 2013, 45:20 min, written and directed by Andreas Lehmann, Production: cobalt Productions, 3sat, ZDF, first broadcast 18 May 2013 in 3sat, Summary of 3sat.