In Now-Time Mode. Worldliness and the present in this year’s Theatertreffen selection
The next Theatertreffen will take place from 2 to 18 May 2025. The 10 remarkable productions, selected by a jury of critics, will be announced in a press conference in late January/early February. The programme schedule will be published in April.
Eröffnung Theatertreffen 2024
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“Reviews are the worst thing about this job,” comments director Jette Steckel, invited to this year’s Theatertreffen with “Die Vaterlosen”, in a guest article written for the Theatertreffen-Blog. Here young art journalists take a critical look at the 10 productions and themes all around the Theatertreffen. Reviews, essays and interviews are published continuously throughout the festival. You can read, for example, about “Lord of the Rings” fan Leonard Haverkamp’s experience of the accessible installation “Riesenhaft in Mittelerde”™ or Marta Ivkić’s review of “Bucket List”. And you can also learn more about the creative interactions of the 29 participants in the International Forum in Elliot Douglas’s article “The power of collaborative theatre”.
The jury went to great lengths for this 2024 Theatertreffen: They viewed the tremendous number of 690 productions before the ten remarkable productions emerged after an eight-hour consultation in late January. For my first edition as director of Theatertreffen, it is hard to imagine a better selection. It shows the extensive range of German-language theatre – from Hamburg to Zurich, from Bochum to Jena, from literary classics to genre-defying formats; as strong aesthetic positings, as works of polished language art, superb performances by individual artists or captivating ensemble work.
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Every year, a jury of critics selects 10 remarkable productions from up to 600 productions from the German-language region to be presented in Berlin in May. The 2024 festival edition will feature discussions on aesthetic, social and culture-political issues with and in front of the audience.