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Key Visual Theatertreffen 2023

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The 60th edition of Jazzfest Berlin provides a space for music that is playful and intuitive and brings together different generations in 36&nbsp;projects. The past, the present and the future are more tangible than ever in the festival programme. The complete programme has been published!

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From October, the Berliner Festspiele is to launch a Performing Arts Season. A panorama of international and interdisciplinary dance, theatre and performance productions will move into the Festspielhaus and the Gropius Bau every autumn and winter.

Performing Arts Season

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Ether&rsquo;s Bloom marks the first part of the Programme on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Gropius Bau. Taking place both online and offline, the programme focuses on the utopian and poetic possibilities of AI and shows works by Elisa Giardina Papa and Mimi Ọnụọha.

Ether&rsquo;s Bloom

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10 remarkable productions have been selected by a jury of critics from among around 450 new theatre shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They will take us on a multifaceted expedition to discover the powerful world of performance and imagery in German-language theatre. Several topics raised by these 10&nbsp;productions will be reflected in the series 10&nbsp;Treffen (10&nbsp;Meetings), which intends to open up spaces for encounter and resonance on a European scale. The events of this new format, including performances, conversations, an exhibition and interventions, will frame the 10 remarkable productions and each Treffen will have a central concept.&nbsp; 
Our entire team has been of invaluable support during the festival&rsquo;s preparations and we would like to thank them very much! And we also thank our partners: above all, the German Federal Cultural Foundation for their long-standing support of the festival, and the main sponsors and partners of the 10&nbsp;Treffen-series &ndash; the Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb and Goethe-Institut &ndash; as well as 3sat for our reliable and fruitful media partnership. 
We are looking forward to 18&nbsp;days of theatre and 18&nbsp;days of discursive, performative and celebratory Treffen with you!

By Olena Apchel, Carolin Hochleichter, Joanna Nuckowska and Matthias Pees

This 60th festival edition will examine which topics, social processes and political transformations are shaping the theatre of today &ndash; and which encounters and exchanges of ideas can help to make them artistically productive. How can we create a safe, yet open space for a multitude of viewpoints on complicated issues of our times? Together with you, we would like to explore, discuss, expand and celebrate the theatre as a space of possibilities.

Welcome to the 2023 Theatertreffen 

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Theatertreffen Blog Open Call

Among other things, the Theatertreffen-bloggers addressed the question of cultural critique in the context of artificial intelligence, reflected on the festival format itself and its sustainability together, as well as the politics of invitation and exclusion that the institutionalised art establishment produces.

The Theatertreffen-Blog

In 2023, we celebrate the 60th edition of Theatertreffen. It is a moment to pause and look back at decades of powerful theatrical experiences with pride. Theatertreffen has always been more than a gathering of dramatic excellence, virtuoso acting and creative superlatives from across the German-language region.

Claudia Roth, Minister of State and Member of the German Bundestag, for the 2023 Theatertreffen

Tobi M&uuml;ller &ndash; former member of the Theatertreffen-jury &ndash; described the situation of German-language theatre as a &ldquo;fight for the future&rdquo; in 2023. He said that the self-legitimation of the artistic form has brought the theatre into competition with other media of social communication. In the resulting struggle for its public voice, he claimed, contemporary theatre became involved in an increasingly shrill battle for attention in order to remain audible in society.

Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska and Kirsten Ha&szlig;, German Federal Cultural Foundation, for the 2023 Theatertreffen

In their essay &ldquo;The Reconquest of Art in a Time of Uncertainty,&rdquo; Petra Paterno and Sabine Leucht &ndash; jury members for this year&rsquo;s Theatertreffen &ndash; examine theatre&rsquo;s role in the midst of the polycrisis in general and the thematic positions of the 10 most notable productions in particular.

Jury Essay

With its 2020 festival edition, the Theatertreffen introduced a female quota of at least 50 percent in the direction position for the ten remarkable productions. The jury and the festival&rsquo;s directors have agreed to extend this rule for another year, up to and including the 2024 festival.

A Female Quota of 50 %

Buch „Status Quote“ zum Theatertreffen 2023

The volume of debate essays &ldquo;Status Quote. Theater im Umbruch: Regisseurinnen im Gespr&auml;ch&rdquo;, edited by Sabine Leucht, Petra Paterno and Katrin Ullmann and published at Henschel Verlag, presents all female directors who have been invited to Theatertreffen since the female quota was introduced in 2020.

Status Quote

The Theatertreffen&rsquo;s database lists every production, theatre and director invited to the festival since 1964.

The Theatertreffen Database 1964&ndash;2023

Berliner Festspiele&rsquo;s Theatertreffen is a festival that wants to present theatre and dedicate itself to encounters (German: Treffen).

About Theatertreffen

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Theatertreffen 2023: Impressionen

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Nora Hertlein-Hull will take on the position of Theatertreffen&rsquo;s solely responsible director, superseding the current team of directors, Olena Apchel, Carolin Hochleichter and Joanna Nuckowska. The theatre and festival maker will assume her new position on 1 January 2024, her preparatory stage will begin in October 2023. She was appointed by Berliner Festspiele&rsquo;s director Matthias Pees.

New Director for Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen

The next Theatertreffen will take place from 2 to 19&nbsp;May 2024. The 10&nbsp;remarkable productions, selected by a <a href="${link:{uuid:{48cb521b-4064-44ff-8f92-f1c6581d87af},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/theatertreffen/das-festival/ueber-die-10-inszenierungen/jurys/jury-2024}}}">jury of critics</a>, will be announced at the end of January / beginning of February 2024. The programme will be published in April.

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Each year, the Theatertreffen brings remarkable productions from the German-language region as well as the works of emerging artists to Berlin.

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The Berliner Festspiele organise a range of festivals and art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theatre performances, readings, lectures, debates and much more throughout the year. These events are presented at a range of locations across Berlin but are concentrated primarily at their own two venues: the Gropius Bau and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

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Janine Jembere, Untitled (aus der Serie Residence Time), 2013.

In Between Frequencies

Soundshapes &ndash; In Between Frequencies activates the two entrances of the Gropius Bau with sound works by Kapwani Kiwanga and Janine Jembere, creating an acoustic connection between the central entrance portal and the step-free entrance. Drawing from the potential of porosity, this architectural intervention challenges the monumentality and statics of the building.

Soundshapes

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How Love Moves: Prelude

During Pallavi Paul&rsquo;s time as Artist in Residence 2023, the Gropius Bau presents a prelude to her upcoming solo exhibition in 2024. In How Love Moves: Prelude, a scenography around the three-channel video installation Cynthia Ke Sapne / The Dreams of Cynthia (2017) transforms the historic Schliemannsaal into a twilight space between wakefulness and sleep.

Pallavi Paul

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A Programme on Artificial Intelligence

Ether&rsquo;s Bloom marks the first part of the Gropius Bau&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="${link:{uuid:{2530681e-98b4-46ea-b69b-4b9033b0a33e},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz}}}">Programme on Artificial Intelligence</a>, which focuses on the utopian and poetic possibilities of AI. As part of Ether&rsquo;s Bloom, works by the artists Elisa Giardina Papa and Mimi Ọnụọha are showcased in freely accessible spaces of the Gropius Bau and here on our website.

Now on view at Gropius Bau

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Steven Cohen

A poem about grieving the death of a loved one: South African choreographer and performer Steven Cohen creates a sacred site for his deceased partner Elu with whom he shared twenty years of his life. In a mourning ceremony of unbearable beauty, he faces his sorrows entirely alone.

Put your heart under your feet... and walk!

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Dimitris Papaioannou

These performances of &ldquo;INK&rdquo; mark the Berlin-debut of the internationally renowned and multiple award-winning&nbsp;Greek director and artist&nbsp;Dimitris Papaioannou.&nbsp;The piece is informed by the aesthetics of science fiction and horror, awakening hidden nightmares in our subconscious minds.

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Key Visual Tanztreffen der Jugend 2023

Ten dance ensembles will present their work at the 10th edition of the Tanztreffen der Jugend.

Solaranlage auf dem Dach des Gropius Bau

We have been following EMAS guidelines for sustainable environmental performance since 2013. Find out more about our goals and the measures that we have already taken on the website of our umbrella organisation.

Sustainable Environmental Performance

Ukaine-Motiv

With this letter of intent, we, the signing cultural organizations, express our intention to welcome, host and stage Ukrainian theatre artists in our venues, to make Ukrainian dramatic work visible to the European community.

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses &ndash; the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstra&szlig;e and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz &ndash; and other venues in the city.

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The 60th edition of Jazzfest Berlin provides a space for music that is playful and intuitive, bringing different generations together in 36&nbsp;projects.&nbsp; 
International greats meet the avantgarde of the Berlin jazz scene in a series of exclusive artistic encounters, outstanding established artists share the stage with strong voices from the younger generation, while this edition of the festival also puts children at the centre of the action for the first time. &nbsp; 
The complete programme is now online. Tickets are on sale.