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Open Calls for the 2023 Festival Edition

Information on the Open Calls for the 2023 Theatertreffen will be available from 5 October.

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Director team of the Theatertreffen (f.l.t.r. Marta Hewelt, Carolin Hochleichter, Joanna Nuckowska, Olena Apchel)

© Jacobia Dahm

New Leadership Team for the Theatertreffen from 2023

Four theatre practitioners stemming from Poland, Ukraine and Germany will take up the mantle of joint leadership of the Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen in 2023. In early September, Olena Apchel, Marta Hewelt, Carolin Hochleichter and Joanna Nuckowska will begin planning and shaping the festival. The new leadership team will succeed the festivals long-standing director Yvonne Büdenhölzer.

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Yvonne Büdenhölzer with the Theatertreffen team on stage in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at the end of the Theatertreffen 2022

© Fabian Schellhorn

Thank You for 11 Years of Theatertreffen

“During my 11 years as festival director, we watched 690 hours of theatre together in May, saw 110 productions – performed by 1025 actors, staged by 67 directors including collectives – produced by 92  invited theatres and selected by 29 jury members. My thanks go to everyone who made this festival into an inspiring and zealous location for theatre arts: artists, partners, funders, jurors, critics, colleagues and the audience!”

‒ Yvonne Büdenhölzer, Director of Theatertreffen 2012–2022

Theatertreffen 2022

Impressions

A television recording is taking place on the forecourt of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the audience gathers in the background.
Television recording of the opening of the 2022 Theatertreffen. © Piero Chiussi
The Minister of State for Culture and the Media Claudia Roth MdB gives a speech on the stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Minister of State for Culture and the Media Claudia Roth. © Piero Chiussi
Yvonne Büdenhölzer presents a certificate to Johan Simons. In the background are the ensemble and stage set – a large white and gold umbrella-like structure – of the production “Das neue Leben”.
Yvonne Büdenhölzer and Johan Simons. © Piero Chiussi
Participants in the conference “Burning Issues x Theatertreffen 2022” gather for a group photo in front of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
Participants in the conference “Burning Issues x Theatertreffen 2022”. © Jonas Walter
Yael Ronen gives a speech in the foyer of the Maxim Gorki Theater, around her is the ensemble of “Slippery Slope”.
Yael Ronen and the ensemble of “Slippery Slope”. © Piero Chiussi
The jury of Stückemarkt 2022 sits on a podium, a projection behind them shows a tree standing in front of a screen.
The jury of Stückemarkt 2022. © Piero Chiussi
Aine Nakamura performs in a white kimono in front of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The audience sits on the edge of a pool filled with pink granules.
Aine Nakamura. © Piero Chiussi
The ensemble of “humanistää!” takes a bow on the stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele to a crowd delivering standing ovations.
The ensemble of “humanistää!”. © Piero Chiussi
Claudia Bauer holds a bouquet of flowers in her hand and looks into the camera.
Claudia Bauer. © Piero Chiussi
Six people sit on a panel on sustainability, a projection behind them shows a tree standing in front of a screen.
A panel on sustainability. © Piero Chiussi
Three people bend over a text.
Theatertreffen 2022. © Piero Chiussi
The ensemble of “Bakice / Grannies” performs on a stage with four chairs, a map, a table and many empty plastic bottles.
The ensemble of “Bakice / Grannies”. © Piero Chiussi
Danger Dan plays the piano in a red jacket and sings.
Danger Dan. © Piero Chiussi
The ensemble of “Like Lovers Do (Memoirs of Medusa)” are getting ready for the applause.
The ensemble of “Like Lovers Do (Memoirs of Medusa)”. © Fabian Schellhorn
Many people gather on the forecourt of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Forecourt of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. © Fabian Schellhorn
The ensemble of “Doughnuts” takes a bow on stage.
The ensemble of “Doughnuts”. © Dorothea Tuch
Two women laugh on a panel in the Kassenhalle of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Theatertreffen 2022. © Fabian Schellhorn
Ozi Ozar strokes the head of a person dressed as a dinosaur in a pool filled with pink granules.
Ozi Ozar. © Fabian Schellhorn
Audience gathers at dusk in the garden of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, where there are white beer benches, a pink house and white Hollywood swings.
Garden of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. © Fabian Schellhorn
Yvonne Büdenhölzer is happy on stage with a bouquet of flowers in her hand as colourful confetti rains down from the stage and her team joins her on stage.
Farewell from Yvonne Büdenhölzer. © Fabian Schellhorn
An unfolded notebook with a view of the Berliner Festspiele Media Library stands on a table in front of a window through which one can see a green garden.

View of the Berliner Festspiele Media Library

© Berliner Festspiele

Theatertreffen in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library

You can still watch a selection of our events this year digitally in the  Berliner Festspiele Media Library. For example, many discourse events and speeches are available as video, audio or text.

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Book “Wir sehen uns. Theatertreffen 2012–2022”

11 Years, 1 Book

The book “WIR SEHEN UNS. Theatertreffen 2012–2022” brings together people who have shaped the festival from the outside over the past ten years. Their contributions undertake a fragmentary stocktaking of the status quo of theatre and festival making.

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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. What are the topics, aesthetics and issues shaping the theatre today?

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In the empty auditorium of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele hangs a banner reading “Show me a good time”.

Show Me A Good Time

© Eike Walkenhorst

More Theatertreffen

Scene from “Coop”. A man in black trousers and a white T-shirt stands with his arms outstretched on a dark stage between shining lamps.

Stückemarkt

The Stückemarkt presents new authors from all over the world, who express themselves in a wide variety of theatre formats – from dramatic texts to performance projects.

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A long table with colourful chairs in the foyer of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele for the participants of the International Forum.

International Forum

The International Forum is the Theatertreffen’s background noise, the initial spark for global collaboration, alliances and actions, the platform that searches for an aesthetic movement.

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Orange spotlights falls onto a stage bathed in green light.

Theatertreffen-Blog

Selected young authors and theatre enthusiasts will provide artistic and journalistic coverage of Theatertreffen, focussing especially on the use of social media tools.

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A Female Quota of 50 %

With its 2020 festival edition, the Theatertreffen introduced a female quota of at least 50 percent in the direction position for the selection of 10 productions. The jury and the festival’s director have agreed to extend this rule for another two years, up to and including the 2023 festival.

Database 1964–2022

Explore our database with all productions, theatres and directors since 1964!

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More Berliner Festspiele

Coloured areas that run into each other. Green is dominant.
Tanztreffen der Jugend

Young Dance Art

The jury selected ten productions from a total of 45 dance pieces submitted. The works will be shown in Berlin from 26 September to 3 October.

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Tabita Rezaire & Amakaba, Singing Bee Garden, 2021, Videostill
Gropius Bau

YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal

Through installation, painting, audio and an extensive performance programme, “YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal” is a call to change. You can visit the exhibition from 16 September to 15 January.

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A turquoise background with a pattern of polygonal light turquoise elements.
Our guests at Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Independent Performing Arts in a Dialogue

Fonds Darstellende Künste invites you to an open and performative discourse format in a participative exhibition set-up on 14 and 15 October. A part of the programme is also a “Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge” with 100 experts from the fields of activism, art and theory.

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