GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS Digital

A funding program within the framework of "Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung".

The GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program facilitates projects at the interface between the liberal arts and cultural education. The program has two funding priorities: artistic projects in rural areas and artistic projects in digital spaces.

The project formats of GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS in digital spaces are intended to address children and young people from the age of 6, especially those in social, financial or educational risk situations, children and young people with disabilities as well as children and young people with refugee experience. We are looking for projects that open up digital and hybrid spaces and techniques in various genres and disciplines and enable artistic, empowering, conscious and critical access to digital media. Thematic questions can deal with decidedly digital content, such as the Internet of Things, digital meeting spaces, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, self-learning machines, games, social media, theater for digital natives, as well as other socially relevant topics that are implemented with digital means. The funding project takes into account both the needs of the steadily growing target group of digital natives and the interest of artists in this field of expression and its potential for innovation.

With the program "Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education," the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has been funding extracurricular cultural education projects for children and young people who have little access to them since 2013. 27 program partners from the education, culture and social sectors implement the program and support local projects applied for by alliances for education or carry them out together with local partners. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides up to 50 million euros annually for this purpose, thus contributing to more educational opportunities in Germany. You can find out more about the program and how to apply here: www.buendnisse-fuer-bildung.de.

News

The Fonds Darstellende Künste expects the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to continue funding the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program as part of Kultur macht stark for the years 2026 and 2027. The next deadlines for applications and project durations will be announced subject to the continued approval of funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

A maximum project duration until 31.07.2025 is possible for the tender deadline of 1.10.2024 (project start from 01.01.2025) (subject to change).

What is supported?

Funding is available for open-ended artistic (including hybrid, analog and digital) projects, depending on the project duration, as well as artistic-participative approaches with children and young people between the ages of 6 and 18 in risk situations, in short, medium and long-term project durations, which are carried out by an alliance of at least 3 partners from art/culture, education and society.
The funding modules range from short-term laboratory projects with a maximum duration of 3 months up to a maximum of 1-year process projects (depending on current tender conditions).. Laboratory funding is recommended for new alliances, for example. Process funding can be applied for both as a continuation of successful laboratory funding and for longer-term new projects as well as regular offers. Concept funding is not being offered until further notice.

Who can apply?

Alliances consisting of at least 3 partners from the arts/culture, education and society. All alliance partners must be organized as legal entities (e.g. associations, public or private institutions, limited liability companies, etc.) or civil law partnerships (GbR) and must have their headquarters and main focus of work in Germany.

Eligible to apply from the alliance are: Actors of all genres and branches of the independent performing arts (including performance, acting, dance, musical theater, figure and object theater, theater in public space, contemporary circus, digital performing arts). Individuals are not eligible to apply. Schools and daycare centers are not eligible to apply, but can be alliance partners. All alliance partners make their own contributions.

How much can you apply for?

As of October 1, 2024, applications can be submitted for laboratory funding from EUR 5,000 to a maximum of EUR 15,000 (including a 7% administration fee) and for litigation funding from EUR 15,000 to a maximum of EUR 50,000 (including a 7% administration fee).

Depending on the application situation, the maximum funding amount may not be available. The allocation quota in GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS is: 2/3 of the projects to be funded are allocated to laboratory funding and 1/3 of the projects to be funded are allocated to process funding. In principle, there is no entitlement to funding.

This is full funding.

Application and funding deadlines

Applications to the Fonds Darstellende Künste for the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program are submitted exclusively online via the external database kumasta.

The next application deadline is 01.10.2024 (project start 01.01.2025 at the earliest).

The possible project duration for approved laboratory projects begins with the positive funding approval and is a maximum of three months from the start of the project. The possible project duration for approved process projects begins with the positive funding approval and is a maximum of 6 months rom the start of the project. The project term for all projects ends by 31.07.2025 at the latest.

Complete proof of use must be submitted no later than four weeks (by 31.08.2025 at the latest) after the end of the respective project.

Further assistance can be found in the regulations, FAQs and the online application form. There will be several information events on the program during each application period.

Prevention and child protection

Projects funded by GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS are committed to sensitive, non-discriminatory and respectful interaction and to measures that protect underage participants from all forms of violence, especially sexualized violence. In the case of funding, it must be ensured that the alliances inspect and document the extended certificates of good conduct of all persons who have direct and regular contact with participating children and young people.

As the inspection of extended certificates of good conduct is only one component of comprehensive protective measures, further steps are also required, in particular a protection concept.

Information on this can be found here:

The most important at a glance

Forms

All necessary information provided in the section forms.

FAQs

Please visit the FAQ section of the fund for general questions about the application process.

Consultation

If you have any questions about the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS funding program, please contact Eva Stöhr and Marlene Kunath. We will be happy to advise you before you apply.

Advice via mail:

eva.stoehr*fund-daku.de

marlene.kunath*fonds-daku.de

Advice via phone:

030 6293126-52

GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS is a funding program of the Fonds Darstellende Künste, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education Research within the framework of Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung.

Jury

  • Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Portrait of Irina Simona Bârcă © privat

    Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Irina-Simona Bârcă is a dramaturge and mediator. Born and raised in Romania, she studied acting in Bucharest and theater pedagogy at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. After working in Münster and Berlin, she was a dramaturge at the FFT (Forum Freies Theater) in Düsseldorf from 2017 to 2024, where she was responsible for the Young FFT section, including the programmatic focus "The Theater of Digital Natives". She has worked with pulk fiktion, Ives Thuwis, subbotnik, Leute wie die, machina eX and PINSKER + BERNHARDT, among others. She is part of various juries in German-speaking countries (Spielarten NRW, kicks! Theaternetzwerk Schweiz, Landesbüro freie darstellende Künste NRW) and was a member of the board of trustees at the Augenblick mal! 2021. As a lecturer, she gives seminars and training courses. Since January 2024, she has been Head of Artistic Mediation and Participation at Theater an der Parkaue.

  • Sarah Fartuun Heinze

    Freelance artist*, author*, cultural educator* | Hamburg

    Photo by Sarah Fartuun Heinze hidden behind houseplants © Claudia Friedrich

    Sarah Fartuun Heinze

    Freelance artist*, author*, cultural educator* | Hamburg

    Sarah Fartuun Heinze is a Black(-gender-)Queer*Feminist; (wage) works as a freelance artist & author & cultural educator:multiverse(neurodiverse) &/ world changer:with theatre, games, Music and Empowerment, sees itself as an aesthetic researcher, is part of the Creative Gaming initiative and the Neue Deutsche Medienmacher.

    Whether as a theater maker*, aesthetic researcher*, theater game designer*, musician*, as part of the Creative Gaming initiative or the New German Media Makers, as an author*, dramaturg* or cultural educator*: digital and analogue Basically, games have always moved Sarah Fartuun Heinze – and still do.

    Her favorite game is: Zelda: Ocarina of Time, probably because the key to most of the puzzles is the music. As so often, far away from screens and (theater) stages.

  • Micha Kranixfeld, M.Sc.

    Cultural Scientist | University of Koblenz-Landau

    Portrait of Micha Kranixfeld © Tony Franz

    Micha Kranixfeld, M.Sc.

    Cultural Scientist | University of Koblenz-Landau

    Micha Kranixfeld works as an artist and cultural scientist. He is a member of the syndicate Gefährliche Liebschaften (Dangerous Liaisons) and the Frl. Wunder AG (Miss Wunder AG), with whom he develops research-based art projects in social fields. In the process, he creates wanderings into the future of work, colorful evenings about meat, or radio plays about the queerness of rural spaces. As a cultural scientist, Micha Kranixfeld conducts research at the University of Koblenz on social art in rural areas and images of rural diversity.

  • Beata Anna Schmutz

    Dramaturg, director | Mannheim

    Portrait of Beata Anna Schmutz © Felix Grünschloß

    Beata Anna Schmutz

    Dramaturg, director | Mannheim

    Beata Anna Schmutz was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1975. After studying German at the University of Gdańsk, she continued her university education in the subjects of art history, educational science and literature at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg. She is the artistic director of numerous theater, art and media education projects and was a cultural education employee at the Haus der Jugend Heidelberg from 2005 to 2016, where she headed the art and theater departments. Freelance director and dramaturg since 2006, university lecturer in the fields of aesthetic education, post-dramatic theater and performance. In 2005 she founded the theater and performance group RAMPIG, where she works as a director and dramaturg. From 2016 to 2018 she was head of the Volkstheater department at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Since 2018 she has been directing the Mannheim City Ensemble at the National Theater Mannheim. Member of the board of the Dramaturgical Society since 2016.

  • Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Portrait of Irina Simona Bârcă © privat

    Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Irina-Simona Bârcă is a dramaturge and mediator. Born and raised in Romania, she studied acting in Bucharest and theater pedagogy at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. After working in Münster and Berlin, she was a dramaturge at the FFT (Forum Freies Theater) in Düsseldorf from 2017 to 2024, where she was responsible for the Young FFT section, including the programmatic focus "The Theater of Digital Natives". She has worked with pulk fiktion, Ives Thuwis, subbotnik, Leute wie die, machina eX and PINSKER + BERNHARDT, among others. She is part of various juries in German-speaking countries (Spielarten NRW, kicks! Theaternetzwerk Schweiz, Landesbüro freie darstellende Künste NRW) and was a member of the board of trustees at the Augenblick mal! 2021. As a lecturer, she gives seminars and training courses. Since January 2024, she has been Head of Artistic Mediation and Participation at Theater an der Parkaue.

  • Sarah Fartuun Heinze

    Freelance artist*, author*, cultural educator* | Hamburg

    Photo by Sarah Fartuun Heinze hidden behind houseplants © Claudia Friedrich

    Sarah Fartuun Heinze

    Freelance artist*, author*, cultural educator* | Hamburg

    Sarah Fartuun Heinze is a Black(-gender-)Queer*Feminist; (wage) works as a freelance artist & author & cultural educator:multiverse(neurodiverse) &/ world changer:with theatre, games, Music and Empowerment, sees itself as an aesthetic researcher, is part of the Creative Gaming initiative and the Neue Deutsche Medienmacher.

    Whether as a theater maker*, aesthetic researcher*, theater game designer*, musician*, as part of the Creative Gaming initiative or the New German Media Makers, as an author*, dramaturg* or cultural educator*: digital and analogue Basically, games have always moved Sarah Fartuun Heinze – and still do.

    Her favorite game is: Zelda: Ocarina of Time, probably because the key to most of the puzzles is the music. As so often, far away from screens and (theater) stages.

  • Micha Kranixfeld, M.Sc.

    Cultural Scientist | University of Koblenz-Landau

    Portrait of Micha Kranixfeld © Tony Franz

    Micha Kranixfeld, M.Sc.

    Cultural Scientist | University of Koblenz-Landau

    Micha Kranixfeld works as an artist and cultural scientist. He is a member of the syndicate Gefährliche Liebschaften (Dangerous Liaisons) and the Frl. Wunder AG (Miss Wunder AG), with whom he develops research-based art projects in social fields. In the process, he creates wanderings into the future of work, colorful evenings about meat, or radio plays about the queerness of rural spaces. As a cultural scientist, Micha Kranixfeld conducts research at the University of Koblenz on social art in rural areas and images of rural diversity.

  • Beata Anna Schmutz

    Dramaturg, director | Mannheim

    Portrait of Beata Anna Schmutz © Felix Grünschloß

    Beata Anna Schmutz

    Dramaturg, director | Mannheim

    Beata Anna Schmutz was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1975. After studying German at the University of Gdańsk, she continued her university education in the subjects of art history, educational science and literature at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg. She is the artistic director of numerous theater, art and media education projects and was a cultural education employee at the Haus der Jugend Heidelberg from 2005 to 2016, where she headed the art and theater departments. Freelance director and dramaturg since 2006, university lecturer in the fields of aesthetic education, post-dramatic theater and performance. In 2005 she founded the theater and performance group RAMPIG, where she works as a director and dramaturg. From 2016 to 2018 she was head of the Volkstheater department at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Since 2018 she has been directing the Mannheim City Ensemble at the National Theater Mannheim. Member of the board of the Dramaturgical Society since 2016.

  • Katharina Warda

    Soziologin, Literaturwissenschaftlerin | Berlin

    Portrait of Katharina Warda in front of a blue brick wall © Alena Schmick

    Katharina Warda

    Soziologin, Literaturwissenschaftlerin | Berlin

    Katharina Warda ist Soziologin und Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Warda arbeitet als freie Autorin mit Schwerpunktthemen Ostdeutschland, marginalisierte Identitäten, Rassismus, Klassismus und Punk. Seit 2021 ist sie Beiratsmitglied von „Kein Schlussstrich!“, einem bundesweiten Theaterprojekt zum NSU-Komplex. In ihrem Projekt Dunkeldeutschland erkundet sie die Nachwendezeit von den sozialen Rändern aus und beleuchtet blinde Flecken in der deutschen Geschichtsschreibung, basierend auf ihren eigenen Erfahrungen als Schwarze ostdeutsche Frau in der DDR und nach 1989/90.

  • Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Portrait of Irina Simona Bârcă © privat

    Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Irina-Simona Bârcă is a dramaturge and mediator. Born and raised in Romania, she studied acting in Bucharest and theater pedagogy at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. After working in Münster and Berlin, she was a dramaturge at the FFT (Forum Freies Theater) in Düsseldorf from 2017 to 2024, where she was responsible for the Young FFT section, including the programmatic focus "The Theater of Digital Natives". She has worked with pulk fiktion, Ives Thuwis, subbotnik, Leute wie die, machina eX and PINSKER + BERNHARDT, among others. She is part of various juries in German-speaking countries (Spielarten NRW, kicks! Theaternetzwerk Schweiz, Landesbüro freie darstellende Künste NRW) and was a member of the board of trustees at the Augenblick mal! 2021. As a lecturer, she gives seminars and training courses. Since January 2024, she has been Head of Artistic Mediation and Participation at Theater an der Parkaue.

  • Juliane Barz

    Theater mediator | Magdeburg

    Selfie of Juliane Barz © privat

    Juliane Barz

    Theater mediator | Magdeburg

    Juliane Barz studied educational science and theater studies in Hildesheim and trained as a theater pedagogue (BuT) in Berlin. Most recently, she was employed at the Puppentheater Magdeburg for four years. Since September 2022, she has been working as a freelance theater mediator, director and production/project manager - including for the BANDE '23 format at Schauspielhaus Magdeburg and for the Moritzhof's socio-cultural district project "#moritz4all". In her work, she constantly explores new interfaces with other arts and media as well as new forms, formats and spaces and negotiates sustainable topics using a research-based and empowering approach. She is also involved as a spokesperson for the Arbeitskreis Ost for children's and youth theater, as part of the Adultism working group and on the Magdeb Cultural Advisory Boardurg.

  • Katrin Breschke

    Project management FLUX Theater und Schule | Frankfurt am Main

    Portrait of Katrin Breschke © Ulrich Herding

    Katrin Breschke

    Project management FLUX Theater und Schule | Frankfurt am Main

    Katrin Breschke studied German, Romance languages and literature and philosophy at the TU Dresden and then dramaturgy at the Hessian Theater Academy. She worked as a dramaturg at the Theater und Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, at the state theaters in Nuremberg and Braunschweig and most recently at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. From 2017 to 2020, she was a member of the Performing Arts Working Group at the Office for Culture and Monument Protection of the City of Dresden. Since 2020, she has been one of three project managers at FLUX - Netzwerk Theater und Schule, a program to promote cultural participation in rural areas in Hesse. She also works as a freelance dramaturg at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, among others. For the 2022 and 2023 festival editions of the Hessian Children's and Youth Theater Week KUSS at the Landestheater Marburg, she was part of the selection committee for the productions of the AK-Südwest.

  • Tessa Hart

    Culture maker* Culture changer* | Berlin

    Portrait von Tessa HArt © Isaiah Koranchie

    Tessa Hart

    Culture maker* Culture changer* | Berlin

    Tessa Hart has been a culture maker and culture changer in the performing arts, film, community work and socio-cultural fields for over 15 years, working across interfaces and boundaries. Since July 2024, Tessa Hart has been a consultant for qualification programs at kultur_formen (Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education). In addition, Tessa Hart's ongoing activities range from curation and participation in selection committees, such as at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival since 2020, to mediation and educational work, to artistic direction of the collective company Goblin Baby Co. since 2013. Previously, Tessa was project manager and artistic director of AfroPolitan Berlin from 2020 to 2024, co-founder and artistic and managing co-director of the Bread & Roses Theatre in London from 2012 to 2022 and has contributed to seven book publications since 2018. Born in the GDR, raised near Berlin and in Brussels, Tessa Hart lived in London for almost a decade and has been back in Berlin since 2018. Throughout all of this, Tessa Hart has navigated very intersectional worlds of experience, with expertise critical of power and discrimination as well as a commitment to equal opportunities and cultural reflection on actual social realities always being a leitmotif.

  • Christopher Weymann

    Performer, computer scientist and theater maker | Hamburg

    Portrait of Christopher Weymann. Christopher has opened his mouth and is squeezing his cheeks with both hands. © Daniel Ladner

    Christopher Weymann

    Performer, computer scientist and theater maker | Hamburg

    Christopher Weymann (he/him) is a queer-feminist performer, computer scientist and theater maker for a transgenerational audience. At FUNDUS THEATER / Forschungstheater in Hamburg, he realizes projects and productions in co-creation with children and young people in the field of tension between society, science and art. With the preamble "Everything that is binary must be hacked!" he develops digital instruments and theater prototypes for the participatory deconstruction of heteronormative, classist and adultist power systems.

  • Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Portrait of Irina Simona Bârcă © privat

    Irina-Simona Bârcă

    Dramaturge, theater mediator | Berlin

    Irina-Simona Bârcă is a dramaturge and mediator. Born and raised in Romania, she studied acting in Bucharest and theater pedagogy at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. After working in Münster and Berlin, she was a dramaturge at the FFT (Forum Freies Theater) in Düsseldorf from 2017 to 2024, where she was responsible for the Young FFT section, including the programmatic focus "The Theater of Digital Natives". She has worked with pulk fiktion, Ives Thuwis, subbotnik, Leute wie die, machina eX and PINSKER + BERNHARDT, among others. She is part of various juries in German-speaking countries (Spielarten NRW, kicks! Theaternetzwerk Schweiz, Landesbüro freie darstellende Künste NRW) and was a member of the board of trustees at the Augenblick mal! 2021. As a lecturer, she gives seminars and training courses. Since January 2024, she has been Head of Artistic Mediation and Participation at Theater an der Parkaue.

  • Juliane Barz

    Theater mediator | Magdeburg

    Selfie of Juliane Barz © privat

    Juliane Barz

    Theater mediator | Magdeburg

    Juliane Barz studied educational science and theater studies in Hildesheim and trained as a theater pedagogue (BuT) in Berlin. Most recently, she was employed at the Puppentheater Magdeburg for four years. Since September 2022, she has been working as a freelance theater mediator, director and production/project manager - including for the BANDE '23 format at Schauspielhaus Magdeburg and for the Moritzhof's socio-cultural district project "#moritz4all". In her work, she constantly explores new interfaces with other arts and media as well as new forms, formats and spaces and negotiates sustainable topics using a research-based and empowering approach. She is also involved as a spokesperson for the Arbeitskreis Ost for children's and youth theater, as part of the Adultism working group and on the Magdeb Cultural Advisory Boardurg.

  • Katrin Breschke

    Project management FLUX Theater und Schule | Frankfurt am Main

    Portrait of Katrin Breschke © Ulrich Herding

    Katrin Breschke

    Project management FLUX Theater und Schule | Frankfurt am Main

    Katrin Breschke studied German, Romance languages and literature and philosophy at the TU Dresden and then dramaturgy at the Hessian Theater Academy. She worked as a dramaturg at the Theater und Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, at the state theaters in Nuremberg and Braunschweig and most recently at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. From 2017 to 2020, she was a member of the Performing Arts Working Group at the Office for Culture and Monument Protection of the City of Dresden. Since 2020, she has been one of three project managers at FLUX - Netzwerk Theater und Schule, a program to promote cultural participation in rural areas in Hesse. She also works as a freelance dramaturg at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, among others. For the 2022 and 2023 festival editions of the Hessian Children's and Youth Theater Week KUSS at the Landestheater Marburg, she was part of the selection committee for the productions of the AK-Südwest.

  • Nils Deventer

    Experience, theater and media pedagogue | Berlin

    Portrait of Nils Deventer © Mediale Pfade Jason Krüger

    Nils Deventer

    Experience, theater and media pedagogue | Berlin

    After completing his master's degree in theater pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012, Nils Deventer worked for the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Junges Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and the Theater an der Parkaue Berlin. During this time, he gained extensive experience in the curation, conception and realization of participatory projects and participation formats of various types and sizes. After his projects increasingly dealt with topics of the digital world, he moved to medialepfade.org e.V. in 2021, where he is now part of the management team for the nationwide educational program "Jugend hackt".

  • Tessa Hart

    Culture maker* Culture changer* | Berlin

    Portrait von Tessa HArt © Isaiah Koranchie

    Tessa Hart

    Culture maker* Culture changer* | Berlin

    Tessa Hart has been a culture maker and culture changer in the performing arts, film, community work and socio-cultural fields for over 15 years, working across interfaces and boundaries. Since July 2024, Tessa Hart has been a consultant for qualification programs at kultur_formen (Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education). In addition, Tessa Hart's ongoing activities range from curation and participation in selection committees, such as at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival since 2020, to mediation and educational work, to artistic direction of the collective company Goblin Baby Co. since 2013. Previously, Tessa was project manager and artistic director of AfroPolitan Berlin from 2020 to 2024, co-founder and artistic and managing co-director of the Bread & Roses Theatre in London from 2012 to 2022 and has contributed to seven book publications since 2018. Born in the GDR, raised near Berlin and in Brussels, Tessa Hart lived in London for almost a decade and has been back in Berlin since 2018. Throughout all of this, Tessa Hart has navigated very intersectional worlds of experience, with expertise critical of power and discrimination as well as a commitment to equal opportunities and cultural reflection on actual social realities always being a leitmotif.

  • Katrin Breschke

    Project management FLUX Theater und Schule | Frankfurt am Main

    Portrait of Katrin Breschke © Ulrich Herding

    Katrin Breschke

    Project management FLUX Theater und Schule | Frankfurt am Main

    Katrin Breschke studied German, Romance languages and literature and philosophy at the TU Dresden and then dramaturgy at the Hessian Theater Academy. She worked as a dramaturg at the Theater und Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, at the state theaters in Nuremberg and Braunschweig and most recently at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. From 2017 to 2020, she was a member of the Performing Arts Working Group at the Office for Culture and Monument Protection of the City of Dresden. Since 2020, she has been one of three project managers at FLUX - Netzwerk Theater und Schule, a program to promote cultural participation in rural areas in Hesse. She also works as a freelance dramaturg at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, among others. For the 2022 and 2023 festival editions of the Hessian Children's and Youth Theater Week KUSS at the Landestheater Marburg, she was part of the selection committee for the productions of the AK-Südwest.

  • Nils Deventer

    Experience, theater and media pedagogue | Berlin

    Portrait of Nils Deventer © Mediale Pfade Jason Krüger

    Nils Deventer

    Experience, theater and media pedagogue | Berlin

    After completing his master's degree in theater pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012, Nils Deventer worked for the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Junges Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and the Theater an der Parkaue Berlin. During this time, he gained extensive experience in the curation, conception and realization of participatory projects and participation formats of various types and sizes. After his projects increasingly dealt with topics of the digital world, he moved to medialepfade.org e.V. in 2021, where he is now part of the management team for the nationwide educational program "Jugend hackt".

  • Skadi Konietzka

    Lecturer for theater practice and theater mediation | Merseburg

    Portrait von Skadi Konietzka © Thomas Tiltmann

    Skadi Konietzka

    Lecturer for theater practice and theater mediation | Merseburg

    She studied scenic arts at the University of Hildesheim and at the Università di Bologna, Italy, and worked as a dramaturge for drama and puppet theater at the Bühnen Halle as well as a freelance theater maker in various projects with young people, including for the Goethe Institute in sub-Saharan Africa and the UNART performance festival. She is also involved in various expert juries, e.g. for the allocation of state funds in the field of independent performing arts in Saxony-Anhalt and the NEUSTART KULTUR - Junges Publikum (ASSITEJ) funding program. Since 2023, Skadi Konietzka has been on the board of the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft (BAG) Spiel & Theater.

  • Julia-Huda Nahas

    Freelance director, author and cultural educator | Kaarst

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    Julia-Huda Nahas

    Freelance director, author and cultural educator | Kaarst

    Julia-Huda Nahas initially trained as an advertising manager and worked for several years as a project manager, marketing and sales manager in the private sector. In 2011, she decided to change course and study cultural education at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, which she completed in 2015 with a bachelor's thesis on inclusive theater as part of the EU project “kunst verbind(e)t”. In addition to realizing independent productions and projects, she works for municipal and independent theatres. In addition, there are always thematically focused projects, such as the scenic reading “Heller Schatten”, a commissioned work on the occasion of the inauguration of the Nazi memorial in Neandertal. In 2020-2023, Julia-Huda Nahas led the project BITTER (SWEET) HOME, which she initiated with a focus on the promotion of BI*POC artists, anti-racist narratives and collaborative writing. In addition to her intensive networking work (theaterautor*innen-netzwerk, VThea, ASSITEJ), she is regularly represented on juries. She is currently a member of the jury for the German Federal Children's and Youth Theater Prize.

  • Christopher Weymann

    Performer, computer scientist and theater maker | Hamburg

    Portrait of Christopher Weymann. Christopher has opened his mouth and is squeezing his cheeks with both hands. © Daniel Ladner

    Christopher Weymann

    Performer, computer scientist and theater maker | Hamburg

    Christopher Weymann (he/him) is a queer-feminist performer, computer scientist and theater maker for a transgenerational audience. At FUNDUS THEATER / Forschungstheater in Hamburg, he realizes projects and productions in co-creation with children and young people in the field of tension between society, science and art. With the preamble "Everything that is binary must be hacked!" he develops digital instruments and theater prototypes for the participatory deconstruction of heteronormative, classist and adultist power systems.

  • Elisabeth Schmidt

    for the young jury | Anklam

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    Elisabeth Schmidt

    for the young jury | Anklam

    Elisabeth Schmidt from Anklam has been a member of the Anklam Youth Parliament since 2020 and chairwoman of the committee since winter 2023. Some of the youth parliament's achievements include a public barbecue area, “wish boxes” for Anklam's schools and several litter collection campaigns. The future title of “Blue Community” is also thanks to the parliament of 9 Anklam residents.
    Elisabeth was also involved in the “Testament” theater workshop held in Anklam in June 2024.

  • Josef Gershenzon

    for the young jury | Berlin

    Portrait von Josef Gershenzon © Ksenia Porechina

    Josef Gershenzon

    for the young jury | Berlin

    Josef Gershenzon is 20 years old and was born in Moscow. He is currently studying philosophy and art history. Josef Gershenzon is a member of BAM! - Kollektiv, which mainly offers creative and social activities for refugee children. Since his childhood, he has been influenced by a strong interest in art and culture as well as socio-political issues, in particular by the experiences of injustice and totalitarianism he had in Russia. After the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula, the family decided to emigrate to Germany. Since the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022, Josef Gershenzon has been working with friends to help refugee Ukrainian children. As he knows from his own experience what local initiatives and support can achieve, he would like to help support important artistic projects as part of the boys' jury.

  • Jette Zempel

    for the young jury | Anklam

    Jette Zempel

    for the young jury | Anklam

    Jette Zempel is 15 years old and comes from Anklam in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She has been interested in theater for years and, until four years ago, played in a theater group for children and young people herself. She also loves singing and playing the guitar. Jette Zempel has taken singing lessons for a total of 6 years and has now been teaching herself to play the guitar for a year. She is a passionate music listener and has a broad knowledge of different genres and bands. When she finishes school, she would like to move to a big city like Hamburg and train as an educator there.