These 78 productions were considered and discussed by the jury.
Die Dreigroschenoper
By Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill
Directed by Lars-Ole Walburg
Theater Basel
Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Tom Schneider
Theater Basel
Edward II.
By Christopher Marlowe
Directed by Sebastian Nübling
Theater Basel / Salzburger Festspiele
Fucking Amal
Geschichte einer ersten Liebe
Based on the film by Lukas Moodysson
Directed by Sebastian Nübling
Theater Basel / junges theater basel
Stiller
Based on the novel by Max Frisch
Directed by Lars-Ole Walburg
Theater Basel
Wie es euch gefällt
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Barbara Frey
Theater Basel
3 von 5 Millionen
By Fritz Kater
Directed by Armin Petras
Deutsches Theater Berlin
Bankenstück: das Geld, die Stadt und die Wut
By Lutz Hübner
Directed by Volker Hesse
Maxim Gorki Theater
Die Möwe
By Anton Chekhov
In a version with texts by Falk Richter
Directed by Falk Richter
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Koproduktion mit den Salzburger Festspielen und dem Schauspielhaus Zürich
Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Directed by Michael Thalheimer
Deutsches Theater Berlin
Ghost Machine
A video walk by
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)
Gier nach Gold
By Frank Norris
Directed by Frank Castorf
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz / Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
Kunst und Gemüse, A. Hipler [selected]
A Christoph Schlingensief Production
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Minna von Barnhelm
By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Directed by Barbara Frey
Deutsches Theater Berlin
PRATER-SAGA 3:
In diesem Kiez ist der Teufel eine Goldmine
By René Pollesch
Directed by Gob Squad
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Prater)
Sabenation: Go Home & Follow the News
Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)
A production of KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brüssel / TheaterFormen, Braunschweig/Hannover
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2)
Vater unser
By Ulrich Seidl
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf? [selected]
By Edward Albee
Directed by Jürgen Gosch
Deutsches Theater Berlin
Bluthochzeit
By Federico García Lorca
Directed by Jürgen Kruse
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Iwanow
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Matthias Hartmann
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Peer Gynt
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Jürgen Gosch
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Todesvariationen
By Jon Fosse
Directed by Matthias Hartmann
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Die Frau vom Meer
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Thirza Bruncken
Theater Bonn
Die Verschwörung das Fiesco zu Genua
By Friedrich Schiller
Directed by Michael Talke
Bremer Theater
Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Dusan David Parizek
Schauspiel Köln
Die Dresdner Weber
Eine Hommage an Gerhart Hauptmann
By Volker Lösch and Stefan Schnabel
Directed by Volker Lösch
Staatsschauspiel Dresden
Ein Volksfeind
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Markus Dietz
Staatsschauspiel Dresden
Revolver
Neuer Tanz
A piece by VA Wölfl
Marstall Schloss Benrath
Country Music
By Simon Stephens
Directed by Matthias Fontheim
Schauspiel Essen
Am Ziel
By Thomas Bernhard
Directed by Jan Bosse
schauspielfrankfurt
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe
By Heinrich von Kleist
Directed by Armin Petras
schauspielfrankfurt
Kollektives Lesen eines Buches mit Hilfe der Imagination in Frankfurt
Based on Vladimir Sorokin’s “Ljod – The Ice”
Directed by Alvis Hermanis
schauspielfrankfurt
Kränk
By Martin Heckmanns
Directed by Simone Blattner
schauspielfrankfurt
Mach die Augen zu und fliege oder Krieg Böse 5
By Fritz Kater and Pernille Sonne
Directed by Armin Petras
schauspielfrankfurt
Commissioned by schauspielfrankfurt and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in collaboration with Schauspiel Leipzig
Kabale und Liebe
By Friedrich Schiller
Directed by Stephan Rottkamp
Theater Freiburg
Der Bus (Das Zeig einer Heiligen)
By Lukas Bärfuss
Directed by Stephan Kimmig
Thalia Theater
Die Ratten
By Gerhart Hauptmann
Directed by Armin Petras
Thalia Theater
Don Karlos
By Friedrich Schiller
Directed by Laurent Chétouan
Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
Faust I
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Directed by Jan Bosse
Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Stephan Kimmig
Thalia Theater
Lulu [selected]
By Frank Wedekind
Directed by Michael Thalheimer
Thalia Theater
Othello [selected]
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Stefan Pucher
Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
Port
By Simon Stephens
Directed by David Bösch
Thalia Theater / Salzburger Festspiele
Spezialmensch
Eine Psycho-Opernschlacht
By Schorsch Kamerun
Directed by Schorsch Kamerun
Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
Bloody Mess
Forced Entertainment
Directed by Tim Etchells
TheaterFormen 2004
schauspielhannover – Niedersächsische Staatstheater
Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Christina Paulhofer
schauspielhannover – Niedersächsische Staatstheater
Hotel Paraiso [selected]
By Lutz Hübner
Directed by Barbara Bürk
schauspielhannover – Niedersächsische Staatstheater
So wild ist es in unseren Wäldern schon lange nicht mehr
By Theresia Walser
Directed by Schirin Khodadadian
Staatstheater Kassel
ERARITJARITJAKA
By Heiner Goebbels
Based on texts by Elias Canetti
Directed by Heiner Goebbels
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne E.T.E.
Miss Sara Sampson
By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Directed by Karin Henkel
Schauspiel Leipzig
Medea
By Euripides
Directed by Irmgard Lange
Staatstheater Mainz
Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern
By Lukas Bärfuss
Directed by Christian Hockenbrink
Nationaltheater Mannheim
Dantons Tod
By Georg Büchner
Directed by Jarg Pataki
Das Meininger Theater – Südthüringisches Staatstheater
Dantons Tod
By Georg Büchner
Directed by Roberto Ciulli
Theater an der Ruhr
Antigone
By Sophocles
Directed by Lars-Ole Walburg
Münchner Kammerspiele
Die Nibelungen [selected]
By Friedrich Hebbel
Directed by and stage design Andreas Kriegenburg
Münchner Kammerspiele
Die zehn Gebote
Based on the stories and films “Dekalog 1–10”
by Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Directed by Johan Simons
Münchner Kammerspiele
Hermes in der Stadt
By Lothar Trolle
Directed by Laurent Chétouane
Münchner Kammerspiele
Herzog Theodor von Gothland
By Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Directed by Tina Lanik
Residenz Theater – Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel
Kein Schöner Land
Ein Heimatliederabend von Franz Wittenbrink
Directed by Franz Wittenbrink, Stephanie Mohr
Münchner Kammerspiele
Mittagswende [selected]
By Paul Claudel (first version from 1905)
Directed by Jossi Wieler
Münchner Kammerspiele
Warten auf Godot
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Elmar Goerden
Residenz Theater – Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel
Was ihr wollt
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jorinde Dröse
Münchner Volkstheater
Die Ballade vom Nadelbaumkiller
By Rebekka Kricheldorf
Directed by Ernst Siedler
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Baumeister Solness
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Thomas Ostermeier
Burgtheater im Akademietheater / Wiener Festwochen
Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien [selected]
A dramatic poem by Friedrich Schiller
Directed by Andrea Breth
Burgtheater im Akademietheater
Ernst ist das Leben (Bunbury)
By Oscar Wilde / Elfriede Jelinek
Directed by Falk Richter
Burgtheater im Akademietheater
Hallo Hotel…!
By René Pollesch
Directed by René Pollesch
Burgtheater im Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz / TheaterFormen Braunschweig / Hannover
Untertagblues
By Peter Handke
Directed by Friederike Heller
Burgtheater im Akademietheater
Schwarzenbergplatz
Rimini-Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)
Burgtheater im Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz
Ten Chi. Ein Stück von Pina Bausch
Choreography Pina Bausch
Tanztheater Wuppertal (Schauspielhaus)
Die Orestie
By Aeschylus
Directed by Stefan Pucher
Schauspielhaus Zürich
Die Präsidentinnen
By Werner Schwab
Directed by Jan Bosse
Schauspielhaus Zürich
Elementarteilchen [selected]
Based on Michel Houellebecq
Theatre version by Tom Blokdijk / Koen Tachelet
Directed by Johan Simons
Schauspielhaus Zürich
Forgeries, Love and Other Matters
By Meg Stuart, Benoît Lachambre, Hahn Rowe
Damaged Goods, par b. l.eux.
Co-production Schauspielhaus Zürich / Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin / National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Homo Faber [selecte]
Based on the novel by Max Frisch
Fassung Stefan Pucher / Robert Lehniger
Directed by Stefan Pucher
Schauspielhaus Zürich
Junk Space
By Kathrin Röggla
Directed by Tina Lanik
Theater am Neumarkt
Koproduktion mit steirischer herbst, Graz
Nur noch heute
By Sabine Harbeke
Directed by Barbara David Brüesch
Theaterhaus Gessnerallee