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Aspiring arts journalists with a keen interest in the theatre will attend and critically reflect Theatertreffen on theatertreffen-blog.de as well as on Instagram.
Five bloggers are invited to cover Theatertreffen in a variety of journalistic formats and to provide critical reflection.
The Theatertreffen-Blog, headed conceptually and editorially by Grete Götze and Tamara Marszalkowski, sees itself as an editorial workshop where theatre and arts journalism can be tried out in the context of an ongoing festival. It intends to promote emerging journalists at the beginning of their career and aims to grant access to the world of culture and the media to a wide range of voices.
In this scholarship programme, around five aspiring arts journalists provide critical on-site coverage of Theatertreffen. Qualifications will be honed, journalistic writing skills will be developed and new formats will be tested.
Applications for participation in the Theatertreffen-Blog can be submitted in the context of an open call which is usually published towards the end of the previous year.
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Relocating the festival newspaper – which was produced from 2005 to 2008 in cooperation with the Berliner Zeitung – to the internet expanded the reach and transparency of the festival’s coverage: discussions on the productions invited to the festival could be followed independently of time or place, and audiences were able to contribute their views via the comments section. The expansion of the call for submissions to include not only German but also English-speakers participants led to a more international tenor in the debates. And not least of all, requiring participants to have their own blog produced a selection of contributors who were already active online.
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