5. Events and Discourse
© Sebastian Bolesch
Accompanying its funding activities, the Fonds repeatedly creates spaces for critical exchange and dialog - within the independent performing arts across Germany, but also between art, politics and society. Specialist events provide new impetus for funding activities and ensure an exchange between artists across federal states. Award ceremonies draw attention to outstanding artistic positions. Thematic events open up current discourses to the public.
THE ART OF STAYING MANY
The Fonds Darstellende Künste organized forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. The journey started in Berlin and continued to Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Potsdam, Erfurt, Weimar and Dresden. The mobile theater truck stopped everywhere and became a platform, discourse space, cinema and venue. It connected theaters, festivals and independent production venues in these and numerous other cities in Germany and abroad. Panels, impulses, workshops, international performances and diverse gatherings invited people to debate about art, freedom and democracy, to sound out current challenges, to endure contradictions and to face what is probably the most pressing task of the present in a polyphonic exchange: The art of remaining many. Each for themselves - and together in heterogeneity, pluralism and acceptance of our diverse society.
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© Dorothea Tuch
On Tour - A Review
Nine stations, nine programs for art, freedom and democracy - the series of events is comprehensively documented. An insight into and review of the programs and the highlights of the forums.
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© Sebastian Bolesch
In Words - Poetic & Analytical
To accompany the series, the Fonds published articles by cultural journalists and poetic positions by contemporary authors. You can read them in our magazine.
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In Pics - Democratic Landscapes
The illustrated book of the same name traces the search for an art of staying many: Photographs by Sebastian Bolesch from the city life of the individual stations meet voices from politics and art.
BLICKWECHSEL – Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste
Culture is one of the most important targets of right-wing extremist forces. The ideological campaign against the arts has recently become increasingly open. "BLICKWECHSEL" examines this development in dialog with Rimini Protokoll, CHICKS*, Katharina Warda, Sibylle Peters, Julia Wissert and many other personalities. Insights into performances and plays from across the performing arts not only show how they counteract polarization: When the queer-feminist play is discussed and selected in the citizens' jury in the Harz Mountains, the chronology of racist attacks is traced as a performative indictment in Hanau town hall and children talk about stereotypes and class differences in front of the theater doors in East Berlin, it shows in a very concrete way how the performing arts invite people to think and reflect together on a daily basis. And thus strengthen democracy in the long term. A film by Janina Möbius on behalf of the Fonds Darstellende Künste – on tour throughout Germany since May 2024.
Tabori Prize 2024
On October 2, 2024, the Fonds Darstellende Künste awarded the Tabori Prize, Germany's highest award for the independent performing arts, for the 15th time - for the first time as part of the Federal Theater Prize ceremony. This year's prize, endowed with 100,000 EUR, went to choreographer and director Joana Tischkau for her “rousing and resistant aesthetics of alienation [...], which liberates representation processes and identity categories from current rigidities and plays with the ambivalences of appropriation.”
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Introducing: Joana Tischkau
Short questions, personal answers: This year's prizewinner on the Tabori Prize, its significance and her initial thoughts on the award.
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© Katrin Ribbe
“Pina Bausch? I can do that too!”
Cultural journalist Christine Wahl in conversation with Joana Tischkau - about the technique of “autoethnography”, about crossing borders, clashing genres and about Pina Bausch's “German heritage”.
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© Dorothea Tuch
Impressions
A look back at the evening of the award ceremony in pictures.
Theaterpreis des Bundes
For the second time, the Fonds was responsible for the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media's Theaterpreis des Bundes – from the call for submissions, the jury process all the way up to the awards ceremony at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on October 2nd 2024. The Theaterpreis des Bundes, endowed with 200,000 EUR, went to the Schwankhalle in Bremen. The interdisciplinary jury presented further awards of 100,000 EUR to the Hessische Landestheater Marburg, the FELD Theater für junges Publikum in Berlin-Schöneberg and the Ernst-Barlach-Theater in Güstrow.
The actors Selma Buabeng and Daniel Zillmann led through the evening of the award ceremony (direction: Tucké Royale) with choral interventions of texts by contemporary authors such as Sivan Ben Yishai, Boris Nikitin, the collective 1pp1 and Olivia Wenzel in a clash of classics of theater and cultural history - under the direction of Christine Groß and Roman Ott. After the artistic stage program, a reception followed accompanied by a DJ set from That Fucking Sara.
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Award Winners 2024
Short portraits present this year's award winners - in words, pictures and videos, supplemented by statements from the jury.
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© Philipp Weinrich
TPB2024-Magazine
Background information and more on the Theaterpreis des Bundes, this year's prizewinners and the work of the jury in articles by cultural journalist Christine Wahl and in the podcast “THAETER. A forensic investigation” by Laura Tontsch and Caspar Weimann.
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Impressions
A review of the awards ceremony evening in pictures and further information on the program are available on the Theaterpreis des Bundes’ homepage, which was launched in late summer.
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