13.5.–
24.5.21
Theatertreffen 2022
The next Theatertreffen will take place from 6 to 22 May 2022. The selection will be announced in January/February 2022. The programme will be published in April.
Videos on Demand and More
Many of the discourse events of the festival, additional material such as the short portraits of the authors featured in Stückemarkt and further links and the production “SCORES THAT SHAPED OUR FRIENDSHIP” by and with Lucy Wilke and Paweł Duduś with music by Kim Twiddle (until 11 June) are still available for you to watch. To do this, click on the menu item “Programme” and navigate to the event you wish to see. Under the menu item “Meet” you will find the 3D stage designs of “Graf Öderland” and “Einfach das Ende der Welt”. The virtual Festival Garden is also still open.
Welcoming Words, Laudatory Speeches and More
In our Theatertreffen Reading Area, you can take another look at the welcoming words and opening speeches of this year’s festival as well as the laudatory speeches for Thiemo Strutzenberger (winner of the 3sat-Award) and Ta-Nia (winners of the 2021 Stückemarkt Commission of Work). Several essays and the podcast “Perspectives Unboxed” are also accessible there.
Theatertreffen 2021. Impressions of the digital festival
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Impressions from the Digital Festival
This was the second online edition of Theatertreffen: Live streams and recordings from Haus der Berliner Festspiele and numerous other locations were presented on our new platform Berliner Festspiele Digital. The selection of 10 productions and Stückemarkt were complemented by the showcase “Stages Unboxed”, a focus on the Living Theatre and the customary, extensive discourse programme. This recap-video will give some impressions of an unusual festival edition.
Theatertreffen 2021
Impressions
Danger Dan at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . © Eike Walkenhorst
Talk „Einfach das Ende der Welt“ . © Yvonne Büdenhölzer
Theatertreffen-Opening at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . Yvonne Büdenhölzer . © Eike Walkenhorst
The auditorium at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . © Eike Walkenhorst
„Show Me A Good Time” by Gob Squad . Haus der Berliner Festspiele . © Eike Walkenhorst
Studio on the Seitenbühne at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . © Eike Walkenhorst
Theatertreffen-Blog . Victor Osterloh, Laura Schuller, Lea Matika, Sarah Kailuweit, Josephine Papke, Janis El-Bira, Anna-Maria Domeier . © Eike Walkenhorst
Practice what you preach?! Vol. 3 . © Lucien Strauch
Theatre-Award-Berlin by Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung . Sandra Hüller . © Monika Karczmarczyk
Stückemarkt-Opening at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . Anna-Katharina Müller . © Eike Walkenhorst
„Aalaapi“ by Laurence Dauphinais . Nancy Saunders, Ulivia Uviluk . © Anne-Marie Baribeau
Studio on the Seitenbühne at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . © Eike Walkenhorst
„UNDER PRESSURE“ by Henrike Iglesias . Laura Naumann, Marielle Schavan, Sophia Schroth . © Eike Walkenhorst
Haus der Berliner Festspiele . © Eike Walkenhorst
„Es ist zu spät“ by internil . Arne Vogelgesang . © Eike Walkenhorst
Studio on the Seitenbühne at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . © Eike Walkenhorst
„Dreams in Blk Major“ by Ta-Nia . Amina Eisner, Alina Sokhna M’Baye, Abak Safaei-Rad, Victoire Laly, Barbara Saltman . © Eike Walkenhorst
Stückemarkt Artists’ Talk . Jude Christian, Laurence Dauphinais, Sam Max, Eve Leigh, Ta-Nia . © Eike Walkenhorst
Conclusion of Stückemarkt . © Eike Walkenhorst
Final Jury Discussion . © Lucien Strauch
Theatertreffen-Blog . © Eike Walkenhorst
Theatertreffen on Digital Pathways
Yvonne Büdenhölzer on the 2021 festival edition
One year ago, we would hardly have believed that we would have to organise the 2021 Theatertreffen as the second online festival in a row. Now we are in the middle of implementing our second purely digital edition and we are very happy to present a festival that aspires to be low-threshold, open and international. All ten productions selected by the jury will be presented either as live streams or recordings, and the same goes for the performances and lectures of Stückemarkt. These works show how theatre can be creatively processed and conceptualised for online presentation. But we will also explore the rapid developments in the field of digital theatrical forms in “Stages Unboxed”, our new digital showcase which will continue our cooperation with the Academy for Theatre and Digitality and the Digitale Dramaturgie, launched in 2020. International approaches and the future of the theatre during and after the pandemic will be the topics of “What are We Waiting for?” – a series of talks that we have initiated together with the Performing Arts Festival Berlin. Our theme day “Practice What You Preach” is the third event of its kind, where we will focus on gender and the abuse of power in the theatre and search for ways of constructing a more just and balanced future.
We invite you to join us on Theatertreffen’s digital pathways: with several events featuring English-language translations and audio descriptions and new ways of connecting!
We are here, and here we will stay: from 13 May on berlinerfestspiele.de/theatertreffen.
Pilot Project Forum Ecological Sustainability in the Theatre
For the first time, the pilot project “Forum Ecological Sustainability in Theatre” will take place within the framework of this year’s Theatertreffen and in cooperation with the action network “Nachhaltigkeit in Kultur und Medien”. The aim is to actively develop a long-term network for issues of sustainability in the theatre and to connect with already existing initiatives.
Digital Practice in the Theatre
The extensive discursive programme “UnBoxing Stages – Digital Practice in the Theatre” examined the risks and potential of theatre on the Internet at the virtual 2020 Theatertreffen. You can still access the recordings of the panels, the “Long Night of Tutorials” and further conversations!
About Theatertreffen
Every year, the festival Theatertreffen brings remarkable productions from the German-language region as well as works by emerging artists from across the world to Berlin. Which topics, aesthetics and urgent issues are shaping contemporary theatre?
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