Press Releases
Berliner Festspiele | Theatertreffen 2021 | Pilot Project Forum Ecological Sustainability in the Theatre
During this year’s Theatertreffen and in cooperation with Aktionsnetzwerk Nachhaltigkeit in Kultur und Medien the pilot project Forum Ecological Sustainability in the Theatre will be hosted for the first time.
8 April 2021
Berliner Festspiele | 58th Theatertreffen | 3sat-Award goes to actor Thiemo Strutzenberger and „Starke Stücke“ 2021
Actor Thiemo Strutzenberger will receive the 3sat-Award, which includes prize money of 10,000 Euros, for his performance in Stefan Bachmann’s production of “Graf Öderland”. This is the decision made by the award’s jury, whose members are Theatertreffen-director Yvonne Büdenhölzer, the author, critic, cultural journalist and member of the Theatertreffen-jury Andreas Klaeui and Wolfgang Horn, a member of the music and theatre editorial staff of ZDF (public German theatre broadcaster). In this co-production of Theater Basel and Residenztheater München, Thiemo Strutzenberger plays attorney general Martin who leads a bloody campaign against society’s status quo.
30 March 2021
MaerzMusik 2021: First digital edition ends with a community project of solidarity
The digital edition of MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2021 was accessed about 29,000 times. The festival ended with the 27-hour closing event TIMEPIECE: to live time announcements in 22 languages by 93 international speakers from Berlin, 57 compositions produced for the project were heard. The revolving stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele was transformed into a gigantic clock, a kinetic stage composition.
29 March 2021
58th Theatertreffen from 13 to 24 May 2021
From 13 to 24 May 2021, the ten productions nominated by the Theatertreffen-jury will be presented as live streams from the producing theatres or as recordings in cooperation with our media partner 3sat, among others. The festival’s programme also includes the international Stückemarkt, featuring streams from the UK, Canada and Berlin, the International Forum in a new setting, a digital showcase as well as a focus on the legendary Living Theatre from New York. The programme can be experienced digitally; analogue events will be announced at short notice, subject to feasibility.
25 March 2021
MaerzMusik 2021: TIMEPIECE Update and further premieres
MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2021 opened on 19 March and continues until 28 March. The 27-hour closing event TIMEPIECE will feature 57 musicians with compositions – new participants include Terre Thaemlitz, Ricardo Villalobos, Michael Gordon and Myriam Van Imschoot. More than 80 Berlin residents will announce the time in different languages. The collective project is an artistic expression of solidarity in Corona times. Other highlights and premieres at the festival include Ensemble Modern and George Lewis, Quatuor Bozzini, Ensemble Extrakte and Juliet Fraser.
24 March 2021
MaerzMusik 2021: Digital edition starts
MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2021 starts on 19 March with the 360-degree "Environment" of music and film at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Over ten festival days, 22 projects, often spanning several hours, will be presented with numerous premieres. At the end, the new format TIMEPIECE brings more than 80 performers to the revolving stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The 27-hour living time announcement with over 50 commissioned compositions from around the world is an artistic project of solidarity in Corona times.
18 March 2021
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective – A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
Gropius Bau to open major Yayoi Kusama retrospective in April with her most complex immersive exhibition to date.
11 March 2021
MaerzMusik 2021: Programme-Update
The updated programme of MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2021, including some new projects, has been published. The content of the digital festival edition can be accessed with a festival pass, which is available free of charge or with payment on a voluntary basis from 15 March. This also marks the start of the festival accreditation.
5 March 2021
58th Theatertreffen | The 10 Selected Productions
In a digital press conference, today, 9 February 2021, the Theatertreffen-jury presented their selection of ten remarkable productions from an extraordinary and challenging theatre year to be nominated for an invitation to the 58th Theatertreffen. In their selection of ten productions, the independent jury once again implemented a female quota of at least 50 percent in the directing position.
9 February 2021
Theatertreffen | Invitation to the Theatertreffen’s Press Conference on Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen invites you to a live stream of the festival’s press conference: The jury’s selection for the 58th Theatertreffen will be announced at 11.00h on Tuesday, 9 February 2021
3 February 2021
Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos
Over three decades, the artist and industrial designer Hella Jongerius has engaged with urgent topics such as sustainable innovation, responsible production and societal regeneration. With the solo exhibition Woven Cosmos, the Gropius Bau presents to a broad public this unique and path-breaking figure from the realm of design and applied arts.
3 February 2021
MaerzMusik 2021: We will be there
From 20 to 29 March 2020 the Berliner Festspiele will present “MaerzMusik – Festival for Issues”, which this year focuses on the beginning of time and will be present in different parts of the city.
28 January 2021
Theatertreffen | Save the Date: The Jury's Selection on 9 February 2021
This year’s Theatertreffen of Berliner Festspiele is scheduled to take place from 7 to 23 May 2021 – in the great hope that we will be able to carry out an analogue as well as a digital festival programme.
21 January 2021
Exhibition Programme 2021
We are pleased to announce the Gropius Bau’s exhibition programme for 2021. Key themes include probing, transgressing and dissolving boundaries, as well as rituals of healing and visions for new ways of living together.
3 December 2020
Berliner Festspiele 70
Berliner Festspiele will turn 70 in 2021. To celebrate this occasion and in the hope of a positive development concerning the pandemic, Berliner Festspiele will launch their anniversary year at Gropius Bau with an interdisciplinary programme lasting several days and a “living archive” in March, and with international guest performances at the Festspielhaus featuring renowned artists as well as those as yet unknown in Germany. At the same time, Gropius Bau will hold the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The opera performance “Sun & Sea”, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial, will be presented as part of the series Immersion in June.
30 November 2020
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most important artists of our time. From 19 March to 1 August 2021, the Gropius Bau will stage the first major retrospective of Kusama’s work in Germany, providing an overview of the key periods in her oeuvre, which spans more than 70 years, and highlighting the significance of her art in Europe – and, indeed, Germany in particular.