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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 2023
The next Theatertreffen is scheduled to take place from 5 to 21 May 2023. The selection will be announced in late January / early February 2023. The programme will be published in April.
Theatertreffen 2022
Impressions

View of the Berliner Festspiele Media Library
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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, the three “Starke Stücke”, recorded by 3sat, are available: “Die Jungfrau von Orleans” (directed by Ewelina Marciniak), “Ein Mann seiner Klasse” (directed by Lukas Holzhausen) and “humanistää!” (directed by Claudia Bauer). In addition, many discourse events and speeches are available as video, audio or text.

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.
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?

Show Me A Good Time
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