Tabori Prize 2024

Graphic with the inscription “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.

Award winner 2024

  • Joana Tischkau is holding flowers and the tabori certificate © Dorothea Tuch

    Joana Tischkau

    The Tabori Prize 2024 of the Fonds Darstellende Künste was awarded to the choreographer and director Joana Tischkau. Germany's highest award in the independent performing arts is endowed with 100,000 euros this year. The jury gave the following reasons for awarding this year's prize to Joana Tischkau:

    “Joana Tischkau's artistic practice is characterized by her excessive and pointed play with contemporary phenomena of popular culture. She appropriates the logics and formal languages of talent shows, sitcoms, hip-hop lifestyle, self-optimization formats or the German carnival and takes them to the extremes that reveal their abysses. [...] Beyond the didactic setting, she has succeeded in developing an aesthetics of alienation that is as rousing as it is resistant, releasing representation processes and identity categories from current rigidities and playing with the ambivalences of appropriation.”

#introducing Joana Tischkau

Award ceremony

The Tabori Prize was awarded for the first time this year as part of the Theaterpreis des Bundes ceremony on October 2, 2024 at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The Fonds Darstellende Künste was not only honoring an artistic position, but also the independent performing arts as another important pillar alongside the diverse theater institutions and their aesthetic signatures and profiles in Germany. This conceptual enhancement of the award was accompanied by an increase in the prize money to a total of 100,000 euros. With this prize, the Fonds Darstellende Künste promotes the visibility and public perception of the award-winning artistic works as significant positions in the independent performing arts of their time.

Jury

The award is made on the basis of a jury decision, which includes members of the Fonds’ Board of Directors and Board of Trustees as well as proven experts in the independent performing arts. Holger Bergmann, Managing Director of the Fonds Darstellende Künste, supports the work of the jury in an advisory capacity.

We would like to thank Amelie Deuflhard, Prof. Dr. Joy Kristin Kalu, Anne-Cathrin Lessel, Dan Thy Nguyen, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schneider, Anna Wagner.

Jury