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Award winners have been announced
10 Sep 2024
The 2024 Federal Theater Prize goes to the Schwankhalle in Bremen. The Ernst-Barlach-Theater, FELD Theater für junges Publikum and Hessisches Landestheater Marburg will be honored with the awards.
The Tabori Prize 2024 will be awarded to Joana Tischkau.
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Thuringia? Your problem!
© Joachim Dette
29 Jul 2024
Artistic director Lizzy Timmers, actress Pina Bergemann and dramaturge Hannah Baumann talk to Christine Wahl about the impact of the Theaterpreis des Bundes, which they won last year, their meteoric last season at Theaterhaus Jena and how things will now – hopefully – continue.
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A model project for Saxony
© Tom Dachs
23 Jul 2024
Anne-Cathrin Lessel, director of Leipzig-based LOFFT, and FORWARD DANCE COMPANY artistic project manager Gustavo Fijalkow talk to Christine Wahl about three forms of participation that will be implemented with the money from the 2023 Theaterpreis des Bundes.
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"Neighborliness is democracy’s lowest common denominator"
© Sebastian Bolesch
23 Jul 2024
The Phoenix Theaterfestival is an open-air event that brings five guest performances to the Platz der Völkerfreundschaft in Erfurt which, when it comes to involving different audiences, represent a counter balance to the Domstufen-Festspielen. Because sometimes the theater has to come to the audience.
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"We have tons of great projects"
© Dave Grossmann
16 Jul 2024
Managing Director Hendrik Frobel, in-house dramaturge Geordie Bookman and artist duo Ana Jordao and Vincent Kollar in conversation with Christine Wahl about the residency program that Chamäleon Berlin is implementing with the prize money from the 2023 Theaterpreis.
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Spaces to try things out
© Zé de Paiva
03 Jul 2024
Artistic director Wagner Carvalho, dramaturge Fabian Larsson, set designer Leonie Brüggenwerth and costume designer Mathieu Amadou from Ballhaus Naunynstraße talk to Christine Wahl about a new learning and exchange format that will be launched at the theater in October thanks to the prize money from the Theaterpreis des Bundes.
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No fear of new images of masculinity
© Jörg Baumann
26 Jun 2024
This weekend in Potsdam, THE ART OF STAYING MANY will explore new narrative forms in volatile times. Journalist and writer Nora Burgard-Arp will be exploring feminist perspectives on right-wing extremist narratives. For our magazine, she talks about her work as an author.
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Politics of the independent performing arts. Five short portraits of artistic processes.
© Dorothea Tuch
24 Jun 2024
On May 25, 2024, the documentary "BLICKWECHSEL - Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste" by Janina Möbius celebrated its premiere at HAU Hebbel am Ufer/HAU3 as part of the event series "DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN. Nationwide Forums for Art, Freedom and Democracy" premiere. The documentary was commissioned by the fund and takes a look at the relationship between the public and artists with a special focus on the increasing polarization of society. In his introductory lecture on the occasion of the film premiere, cultural scientist Sebastian Köthe portrayed five aesthetic methods of politicization in the performing arts of the present day.
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Geteilte Geschichte(n)
© Sebastian Bolesch
18 Jun 2024
Das Erinnern an die Vergangenheit ist ein oft strapaziöser Akt. Auch in Deutschland zeigt sich, wie schwer es ist, multiperspektivische Blicke auf die Erfahrungen eines diversen Umfelds zu richten. Die Journalistin Zonya Dengi erinnert sich aus ganz persönlicher Perspektive – und nutzt die emanzipatorische Kraft, die im Erzählen der eigenen Geschichte steckt. Ihr Beitrag ist Teil einer Artikelserie, der das Programm von DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN am 21. + 22. Juni in Berlin begleitet.
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Welcome!
© Falk Wenzel
10 Jun 2024
Our author traveled to Bitterfeld-Wolfen to observe the preparations for the OSTEN theater festival, where the THE ART OF STAYING MANY Theater Truck is also making a stop. She was surprised by many things she found there – a reportage.
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On artistic freedom and intersectionality
© Kathinka Schroeder
05 Jun 2024
The writer, political activist and theater maker Mirrianne Mahn questions the current debates about artistic freedom and finds that they are directly related to intersectional perspectives – which influence, among other things, work in the field of theater.
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Durchlässige und fragile Theater
© Dorothea Tuch
28 May 2024
In vielen kulturellen Räumen werden aktuell überkommene, hegemoniale und diskriminierende Strukturen hinterfragt, auch im Theater. Die Journalistin Esther Boldt schreibt darüber, wie kompliziert die entsprechenden Aushandlungsprozesse aussehen und wie fragil Orte der Vielfalt in diesen Tagen sein können.
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DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | Tour
21 May 2024
On May 24 and 25, 2024, the fund will open the series "DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN" with the kick-off event at HAU Hebbel am Ufer. In addition to a cultural policy panel, the film premiere "BLICKWECHSEL - Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste" by Janina Möbius and the German premiere of "La Obra", the theater truck, which will set off to the eight other stops on the tour, will be officially inaugurated.
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DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN | Tour
21 May 2024
On May 24 and 25, 2024, the fund will open the series "DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN" with the kick-off event at HAU Hebbel am Ufer. In addition to a cultural policy panel, the film premiere "BLICKWECHSEL - Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste" by Janina Möbius and the German premiere of "La Obra", the theater truck, which will set off to the eight other stops on the tour, will be officially inaugurated.
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DIE KUNST VIELE ZU BLEIBEN
29 Apr 2024
The series "THE ART OF STAYING MANY" starts with the kick-off event on May 24 and 25, 2024 in Berlin and then travels on to eight different theaters, festivals and production venues. Holger Bergmann, Managing Director of the fund, provides insights into the journey of the theater truck and pleads for the importance and strengthening of democracy through projects such as this one.
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"There are still many of us"
© Alexandra Polina
06 Dec 2023
At the B.A.L.L. at Kampnagel, there was intense discussion about how to meet the challenges of the present. Many artists also offered their opinions on how to deal with right-wing populist politics and right-wing extremist dangers. An approach to resistant arts.
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New connections, new narrative forms
© Alexandra Polina
17 Nov 2023
At the closing event of the Bundesweite Artist Labs 2023 (B.A.L.L.), it became clear just how committed the independent theater scene is to exchanging ideas with each other and with the audience – and how it cultivates mindful interaction with each other in challenging times.
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"Theater is not an instruction manual"
© Festival El Aleph Teatro UNAM
14 Nov 2023
Rimini Protokoll presented the production "Konferenz der Abwesenden" at the B.A.L.L. at Kampnagel. Annette Stiekele spoke to Daniel Wetzel, who, together with Stefan Kaegi and Helgard Haug, has been inviting audiences to exciting theatrical experiments for the last 20 years.
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With different eyes
© Alexandra Polina
13 Nov 2023
The debate about sustainability has long since reached the theater. In a lab presentation at the B.A.L.L., the kollektiv:proton showed just how flexibly the topic can be interpreted.
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Stärkung der Kultur als Stärkung der Demokratie
© Alexandra Polina
30 Oct 2023
Das Kulturpolitische Metalabor „Transformationen von Publika und Kulturlandschaft“ im Rahmen des zweiten B.A.L.L. – Bundesweites Artist Labor der Labore auf Kampnagel in Hamburg.
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