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The Theatertreffen-Blog

Aspiring arts journalists with a keen interest in theatre will attend and critically reflect Theatertreffen on theatertreffen-blog.de as well as on Instagram.

Open Call 2027

The Open Call of the Theatertreffen-Blog is aimed at aspiring arts journalists with a keen interest in the theatre who would like to attend and critically reflect the 2027 Theatertreffen.

Detailed information will be published in December.

The 2026 Bloggers

Five bloggers were invited to cover Theatertreffen in a variety of journalistic formats and to provide critical reflection.

Learn more All bloggers 2005 – 2026

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History

Relocating the festival newspaper – which was produced from 2005 to 2008 in cooperation with the Berliner Zeitung – to the internet expanded the reach and transparency of the festival’s coverage: discussions on the productions invited to the festival could be followed independently of time or place, and audiences were able to contribute their views via the comments section. The expansion of the call for submissions to include not only German but also English-speakers participants led to a more international tenor in the debates. And not least of all, requiring participants to have their own blog produced a selection of contributors who were already active online.

The Theatertreffen-Blog has developed into its own independent digital brand, and was linked by Guardian Online, nachtkritik.de and the feminist blog maedchenmannschaft.net, among others, as an original source. The Theatertreffen-Blog’s media partners included the Berliner Zeitung, EXBERLINER, 3sat/Kulturzeit, kultiversum.de, Theater der Zeit, ZEIT ONLINE and blogger Mary Sherpe from stilinberlin.de as well as Johanna von Stülpnagel from redenswinger.de/blog. These partners have given staff support to the blog editorial team and its work by releasing journalists from work to act as mentors, media support in terms of linking, and content support through their own reviews and postings.

From 2011 to 2015 the Theatertreffen-Blog was funded by the Rudolf Augstein Foundation. Since 2016 the Theatertreffen-Blog has been funded by Stiftung Presse-Haus NRZ.

The Theatertreffen-Blog was founded in 2009 by Nikola Richter, who was its head until 2013. In 2014 and 2015, Bianca Praetorius took over this position. From 2016 to 2021, Janis El-Bira was head of the Theatertreffen-Blog. In 2022, Antigone Akgün and Ozi Ozar took over the conception and editing of the project. The 2023 Theatertreffen-Blog was headed by Antigone Akgün in close cooperation with Zofia nierodzińska. In 2024 and 2025, Grete Götze and Tamara Marszalkowski were responsible for the concept and editing. In 2026 the project once again has been headed conceptually and editorially by Grete Götze and with the cooperation of Frieda Ahrens.

The Theatertreffen-Blog 2026 was funded by the