The Jury of the Theatertreffen der Jugend 2026

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<h3>Elizabeth Blonzen</h3>BerlinElizabeth Blonzen, born 1968 in Gerolstein, lives in Berlin. Studied German philology, philosophy and psychology at the Comprehensive University of Essen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, studied acting at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule, Munich, numerous engagements at various theatres, including M&uuml;nchner Kammerspiele, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin. Work as an author, play “Schwarz tragen”, premiered at Ballhaus Naunynstra&szlig;e, Berlin, script for “Doppelpass”, audience award of the Nei&szlig;e Film Festival, guest lecturer at the Hochschule f&uuml;r Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch”, Berlin.&nbsp;<h3>Ilias Botseas</h3>MainzIlias Botseas, born in 1995 in Erbach (Odenwald), is currently studying theater studies and journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 2017 to 2019, he was a young juror at the Theatertreffen der Jugend and an alumnus at the Tanztreffen der Jugend. In 2019, he also served on the blog editorial board of Treffen junge Musik-Szene, on the social media team of Treffen junger Autor*innen, and as a guest speaker at Theater HochX on the topic of "Adultism in Theater." Together with Antigone Akg&uuml;n, he produced the radio play "Zwischen Marmor und Asphalt" (Between Marble and Asphalt) as part of the Frankfurt Forum 2020 of the Children's and Youth Theater Center in the Federal Republic of Germany and curated the audio venue tour of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin 2021.&nbsp;<h3>Sakiye Boukari</h3>K&ouml;lnSakiye Boukari was born in Cologne in 2003. She attends the Q2/12th grade of a grammar school and will take her high school degree there in 2021. In age group 7 to 9 she attended a profile class music-theatre-media, but she has already been in touch with theatre at school since grade&nbsp;1. She has been active in Schauspiel K&ouml;ln since 2018. In 2019, she was invited as a delegate at the Theatertreffen der Jugend for the play “Concord Floral”. Meanwhile, she is in the ImportExport collective at Schauspiel K&ouml;ln. She has many interests, including athletics and basketball, and has taken part in various competitions, such as reading competitions in German and French, Jugend debattiert or athletics. Her future plans are uncertain :&nbsp;)&nbsp;. “Theatre is simply the best thing that could ever happen to my character.”&nbsp;<h3>Canip G&uuml;ndogdu</h3>BielefeldCanip G&uuml;ndogdu, born in 1978 in Tavşanlı, Turkey and raised in Castrop-Rauxel, has lived in Bielefeld for 23 years. G&uuml;ndogdu, who studied educational science and theater pedagogy, directs transcultural theater projects as well as integrative theater projects and theater productions with students from all types of schools. His passion is clowning and theater workshops with children, young people and adults. For several years, he has also led theater groups at the Minden City Theater, in G&uuml;tersloh and Bielefeld. The productions "Parallele Welten I - Die Insel" (2012), "Parallele Welten III - Ehrlos" (2016) and the group Wunderbar, with the play "Blick nach vorn" (2017), were invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend in Berlin. He also works as a clinic clown, trainer for vocational preparation measures and lecturer for the LAG Spiel und f&uuml;r Theater NRW e. V..&nbsp;<h3>Anne-Kathrin Holz</h3>SchwerinBorn in 1963 in G&uuml;strow, Mecklenburg. Studied at the Leipzig University and in Rostock. She has taught theatre, German and history at the Goethe Gymnasium Schwerin since 1991, where she founded acting as a compulsory elective subject, and as an upper school elementary course. Since 1991 she has been the ensemble director of the theatre group TaGGS, and develops and advises the annual school theatre productions for secondary level pupils. She has been invited several times with these productions to the Theatertreffen der Jugend and to the Schultheater der L&auml;nder (SdL). At the SdL 2013 in Schwerin, she was part of the festival preparation team and ran the festival magazine “off”. She has led various theatre workshops including the prizewinners’ meeting of the K&ouml;rber Foundation’s History Competition.&nbsp;<h3>Andreas Kroder</h3>Freiburg im BreisgauAndreas Kroder, born in 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau, has been teaching performing arts, German, history and economics/politics at the Wolfgang-Borchert-Gymnasium in Halstenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, since 2010; prior to that, he held teaching positions in various German states such as Baden-W&uuml;rttemberg and Bavaria and school types such as Real-, Gesamt-, Regional- and Gemeinschaftsschule. In 2012 he took over the play direction of wo-bo-theater-ag and participated with the varying ensembles and their own productions in several state and national theater festivals such as the Schultheater der L&auml;nder and the Theatertreffen der Jugend in Berlin. Since 2019 he has been active in training and further education in performing arts and since 2021 he has also been working as a state consultant for performing arts in training, and further education at the Institute for Quality Development at Schools in Schleswig-Holstein.&nbsp;<h3>Sebastian Mauksch</h3>BerlinSebastian Mauksch develops theatre productions for children and young people. In the noughties he created the P14 Youth Theatre at Volksb&uuml;hne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz together with young theatre-makers and they established the autonomous-collective-artistic way of working. Further collaboration with the mobile container theatre “Rollende Road Schau” in Berlin’s urban space. From 2008 productions in the Ballhaus Ost. He was a theatre lecturer for people with mental suffering and helper for refugees. From 2016, development and production of participatory theatre performances for children and young people in cooperation with the Treffen junge Szene of Berliner Festspiele and Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. <a href="http://www.sebastianmauksch.de/" target="_blank" title="Zur Webseite von Sebastian Mauksch">www.sebastianmauksch.de</a>&nbsp;<h3>Rieke Oberl&auml;nder</h3>BremenBorn in Braunschweig in 1982, she studied cultural studies, aesthetics and applied arts with a focus on theatre at the University of Hildesheim. She was a junior jury member at Theatertreffen der Jugend from 2003 to 2005 and became a jury member at various youth theatre festivals afterwards. From 2004 to 2007, she was the head of Stadttheater Hildesheim’s youth club. Since 2007, she has been a drama teacher and head of the department of theatre education at Theater Bremen, where she developed workshops for schools and educational institutions, teacher trainings as well as her own productions both with young and older people. From 2010 to 2015, she was director of the&nbsp;Forum&nbsp;at Theatertreffen der Jugend.&nbsp;<h3>David Paraschiv</h3>BerlinDavid Paraschiv is a Romanian living in Berlin since 2015. He is currently in his third year of training as an educator. He has been campaigning against racism against Sinti* and Roma* for several years. He works at RomaTrial e. V., a transcultural Roma self-organization, among others in the educational program against antiziganism "WIR SIND HIER!" as well as in the alliance against antiziganism and for Roma* empowerment "BARE". Together with Kuringa e. V., the youth group WIR SIND HIER! developed the theater play of the same name, which was invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend 2022.&nbsp;<h3>Laura V&ouml;lkel</h3>BerlinLaura V&ouml;lkel, born in Spremberg in 1997, studies sports science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She played for six years in the youth club at the Piccolo Theater in Cottbus, under the direction of Matthias Heine. As part of the youth club, collaborations followed with Marcel Sparmann, Zaida Ballesteros Parejo and Golde Grunske, among others. In 2017 she was invited as a player with "KRG." to the Bundestreffen Jugendclubs an Theatern as well as with the play "sag alles ab" to the 38th Theatertreffen der Jugend. With the play "Touch Down" she was awarded in 2016 by the Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater amarena in the category of children's and youth theater, in 2018 she received with the play "KRG." the special prize "Nah dran! - An Award for Democracy Theater". She is currently a guest performer at the Piccolo Theater Cottbus.

<h4>The Theatertreffen der Jugend juries since 2012&nbsp;</h4>

<ul> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{c8661147-2c57-4bd0-86bb-8f55ddad4d4b},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/B/jelena-bosanac}}}">Jelena Bosanac</a> Berlin</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{656aced3-8ae0-4acc-a99e-0d48cfddaa0e},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/B/ilias-botseas}}}">Ilias Botseas</a></li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{a713f938-8ec9-4edf-9f93-6021c13f9b62},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/D/fernando-da-ponte}}}">Fernando&nbsp;da Ponte</a> Tosted</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{0363c984-0a8f-42c8-902b-8479b2d22053},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/G/canip-guendogdu}}}">Canip G&uuml;ndoğdu</a> Bielefeld</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{6d1773de-b974-43d6-b150-c9f2c401eebb},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/K/andreas-kroder}}}">Andreas Kroder</a> Kiel</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{0f2a40ba-ccbc-4c12-9106-aae29792fd26},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/N/mai-an-nguyen}}}">Mai-An Nguyen</a> Berlin</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{d0862929-c4a2-4ccc-8387-8852710bde86},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/O/rieke-oberlaender}}}">Rieke Oberl&auml;nder</a> Bremen</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{bc22d1d5-b947-4a1c-90f1-44c26cf07b7f},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/R/rahmatallah-ramzi}}}">Rahmatallah Ramzi</a> Marburg</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{4dbd179c-ff08-4493-ac67-50db304f896c},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/S/estera-sara-stan}}}">Estera Sara Stan</a> Berlin</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{ae4e9eec-fb70-4fb3-932d-1dc1483464c7},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/W/lene-wollwerth}}}">Lene Wollwerth</a> Braunschweig</li></ul>

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In addition to the recording of the opening ceremony, the productions from Theatertreffen der Jugend will also be available in the Berliner Festspiele media library until beginning of June 2026. The media library also offers on-demand content from previous years.

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The next Theatertreffen der Jugend will take place from 30 May&nbsp;to 6 June&nbsp;2025. Applications are now open again.&nbsp;The application deadline has been extended until 10&nbsp;February 2025.

60 ensembles from 13&nbsp;federal states have submitted their productions for the 46th&nbsp;Theatertreffen der Jugend 2025. The applicants have developed their productions at a wide variety of school types, or in cooperation between schools and theatres, in youth clubs at municipal and state theatres, as independent groups, at youth cultural institutions or at community theatres.

The Shortlist Has Been Finalised

Congratulations to the award winners! The eight ensembles from eight federal states selected by the jury will present their work from 30&nbsp;May to 6&nbsp;June at the 46th&nbsp;Theatertreffen der Jugend at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.&nbsp;

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The Theatertreffen der Jugend sees itself as a platform and place of impulses and exchange, a place of learning where young theater makers can negotiate their working methods and their different themes and attitudes and are encouraged in their individual, artistic forms of expression. The focus is on the invited productions and the encounter and exchange between the young players and their directors in a wide variety of formats.

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The artists take us into the world of mythology, rewrite classical material and turn their protagonists into influencers, develop collages or invite us to a martial arts performance. They deal with the helplessness of society, grievances, pressure to perform, the culture of remembrance, fluid gender roles and failure. They have a sense of humour, working with caricatures and humorous elements. The performers seek interactive encounters with the audience and express themselves in chants, songs, choreographies or on the vertical cloth. This year’s selection has many intense moments in store and confronts us sometimes with a threatening, sometimes with an imaginative future.&nbsp;This year marks the 45th edition of the Theatertreffen der Jugend. A proud number behind which stand decades of impressive young theatre work and strong messages. This shows that the importance of theatre as a means of expression for young people remains unbroken across generations. I would like to thank the sponsors of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for their many years of support and for recognising the inestimable value of theatre for the development of young people.I would like to sincerely thank my colleagues on the jury for their meticulous and dedicated work in making this year's selection.&nbsp;My special thanks go to the Treffen junge Szene team and my colleagues at the Berliner Festspiele, who support the young theatre makers with so much appreciation and professionalism.&nbsp;And I wish you, dear ensembles, wonderful and exciting days at the festival. And thank you! Thank you for your work and thank you for addressing things and taking the future into your own hands.&nbsp;Susanne Chrudina Director Treffen junge Szene

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The moment is so intense, so much to discover, to feel, to experience. And yet we are always on the move into the future. Into an uncertain future.&nbsp;The young theatre makers talk about such intense moments and about their wishes, fears and demands for the nebulous future. They show activism, passion, discipline and a willingness to fight. We encounter modern gladiators, transcultural ensembles, time travellers and lovers, hear the rhythm of different languages and live music on stage.&nbsp;

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Applications for 2024 are no longer possible. Deadline was 31&nbsp;January 2024.&nbsp;The selection will be announced on 26&nbsp;March 2024.

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Young theatre makers, dancers, musicians and authors are given a platform for their creative work at the four national contests of the Treffen junge Szene and are specifically supported in their artistic development.

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You can listen to some of our events this year digitally in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library after the live concerts.&nbsp;In addition, On Demand offers from past years are available.

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The international Jazzfest Research Lab&nbsp;welcomes academics and students to take a critical look at the festival’s archive, its programmes, creators, musicians and – last but not least – its myths. In two seminars during the summer semester of 2024, students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim have explored the festival’s history from various perspectives. In this film, the participants give a first look at how they dealt with their research subject.

Introducing: Jazzfest Research Lab

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To mark its 60th anniversary, Jazzfest Berlin is celebrating the cultural diversity of the neighbouring district of Moabit in collaboration with around 35 official partners and initiatives and with over 350 participants of all ages.&nbsp;In June 2024, interviews were conducted with 20 partners who presented their perspectives, wishes and ideas for the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit. You can get a first impression with this film.

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Curated by&nbsp;Meron Mendel and Saba-Nur Cheema&nbsp;

From 13 to 16 June 2024, the interdisciplinary themed days “Reflexes &amp; Reflections” on the Israel-Palestine conflict and its consequences for society in Germany took place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. You can now find video and audio recordings of the discourse events in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library!

Reflexes &amp; Reflections. 7 October, the war in Gaza and the debate in Germany

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Musikfest Berlin will take place from 28&nbsp;August to 23&nbsp;September 2026 in co-operation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and marks the 75th&nbsp;anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele. Tickets are already available now for ten selected concert highlights at the Philharmonie Berlin. These guest concerts include some of the world’s best symphony orchestras and choirs from Finland, Spain, England, South Africa, the USA, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The complete festival programme will be announced on 21&nbsp;April 2026.

Musikfest Berlin 2026: Tickets for First Concert Highlights Available Now!

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The 10 Remarkable Productions 2024

On 26 January, the Theatertreffen’s jury of critics announced their selection of 10 remarkable productions for the 2024 Theatertreffen at a press conference. Our congratulations go to the nominated production teams and all participants! The programme will be published on 5 April.

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The massacre, hostage-taking and rocket attacks by Hamas have shaken us deeply. The grue-some attack on Israel on 7&nbsp;October left us stunned and initially lost for words.

The Berliner Festspiele on Current Events in Israel, Gaza and Germany

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

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In Thorsten Lensing’s new play, Ursina Lardi, Karin Neuh&auml;user, Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung and drummer Willi Kellers play characters careening their way from one disaster to the next. What defines them is an absurd blend of brutality and tenderness, anarchy and metaphysical curiosity, existential pain and zest for life.

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As an international co-production, artists Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud and singer Nadia Larcher have developed a performance that is carried by music, singing and dance at once. In “Último helecho”, European Baroque meets South American folklore and mythology.

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A dance collage by John Neumeier which explores aspects of German expressive dance through music, texts and songs and commemorates the victims of Nazi rule. Guest performance of the National Youth Ballet John Neumeier.

The Invisibles

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Advance sales are now live: tickets for ten selected concert highlights of the Musikfest Berlin, which in 2026 will also mark the 75th&nbsp;anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, are now available. The programme includes Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti’s grotesquely humorous anti-opera Le Grand Macabre and George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

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<h3>Theatertreffen</h3><h4>2 to 20 May 2024</h4>The 10&nbsp;remarkable productions, selected by a jury of critics, were announced in a press conference on 26&nbsp;January 2024, 11:00. The programme will be published on 5&nbsp;April, advance ticket sales will start on 19&nbsp;April at 14:00