The Shortlisted Productions 2012

These 34 productions were considered and discussed by the jury.

Aarau

Kapelle Eidg. Moos
Ein riskanter Unterhaltungsabend (vom Bund empfohlen)
By Ruedi Häusermann / Jan Ratschko / Herwig Ursin
Directed by Ruedi Häusermann
Theater Tuchlaube Aarau / Kaserne Basel / Kleintheater Luzern / Migros-Kulturprozent / Schlachthaus Theater Bern / Theater Chur

Basel

Lo stimolatore cardiaco
By Christoph Marthaler / Malte Ubenauf / Bendix Dethleffsen
Directed by Christoph Marthaler
Theater Basel

Berlin

Die vier Himmelsrichtungen
By Roland Schimmelpfennig
Directed by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Deutsches Theater Berlin / Salzburger Festspiele

Judith
By Friedrich Hebbel
Directed by Andreas Kriegenburg
Deutsches Theater Berlin

Über Leben
By Judith Herzberg
Directed by Stephan Kimmig
Deutsches Theater Berlin

Before Your Very Eyes [selected]
By Gob Squad & Campo
Directed by Gob Squad
Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin / Gob Squad / Campo, Gent / FFT Düsseldorf / Noorderzon, Grand Theatre, Groningen / Next Festival / Eurometropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai+Valenciennes / Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt / La Bâtie-Festival de Genève

Hate Radio [selected]
By Milo Rau
Directed by Milo Rau
International Institute of Political Murder / Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre / Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin / Migros-Kulturproduzent, Schweiz / Kunsthaus Bregenz / Schlachthaus Theater Bern / Beursschouwburg, Brüssel / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich / Kaserne Basel / Südpol Luzern / Verbrecher Verlag Berlin / Ishyo Arts Centre Kigali

Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe
By Heinrich von Kleist
Directed by Jan Bosse
Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

Der Kirschgarten
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Thorsten Lensing / Jan Hein
Sophiensaele, Berlin / Theater T1 / Kampnagel Hamburg / Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster / Grand Théâtre Luxembourg / TAK Theater Liechtenstein / Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden

Der Spieler
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Directed by Frank Castorf
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin / Wiener Festwochen

Die [s]panische Fliege [selected]
By Franz Arnold / Ernst Bach
Directed by Herbert Fritsch
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

John Gabriel Borkman. 4. Teil der Ibsen-Saga. Season 2 / Performances #20-25 [selected]
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Vegard Vinge / Ida Müller / Trond Reinholdtsen
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin / Norsk Kulturråd / Nordwind Platform und Festival

Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia [selected]
By René Pollesch
Directed by René Pollesch
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

Bonn

Ein Volksfeind [selected]
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Lukas Langhoff
Theater Bonn

Cologne

Demokratie in Abendstunden
By Joseph Beuys / John Cage / Rainald Goetz
&
Kein Licht
By Elfriede Jelinek
Directed by Karin Beier
Schauspiel Köln

Frankfurt

Die Wildente
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Karin Henkel
Schauspiel Frankfurt

Hamburg

Draußen vor der Tür
By Wolfgang Borchert
Directed by Luk Perceval
Thalia Theater, Hamburg

Faust I + II [selected]
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Directed by Nicolas Stemann
Thalia Theater, Hamburg / Salzburger Festspiele

Merlin oder Das wüste Land
By Tankred Dorst
Directed by Antú Romero Nunes
Thalia Theater, Hamburg

Ingolstadt

Winterreise
By Elfriede Jelinek
Directed by Michael Simon
Stadttheater Ingolstadt / Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Leipzig

Pension Schöller
By Carl Laufs / Wilhelm Jacoby
Directed by Sebastian Hartmann
Schauspiel Leipzig

Mainz

Winterreise
By Elfriede Jelinek
Directed by Jan Philipp Gloger
Staatstheater Mainz

Munich

Ludwig II.
After Luchino Visconti
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Münchner Kammerspiele

Gesäubert / Gier / 4.48 Psychose [selected]
By Sarah Kane
Directed by Johan Simons
Münchner Kammerspiele

Macbeth [selected]
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Karin Henkel
Münchner Kammerspiele

Three Kingdoms
By Simon Stephens
Directed by Sebastian Nübling
Münchner Kammerspiele / Theater NO99 Tallinn / Lyric Hammersmith Theatre London

Nuremberg

Woyzeck
By Georg Büchner
Directed by Christoph Mehler
Staatstheater Nürnberg

Oberhausen

Iphigenie auf Tauris
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Directed by Sarantos Zervoulakos
Theater Oberhausen

Schwerin

Der Diener zweier Herren
By Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Herbert Fritsch
Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin

Stuttgart

Dantons Tod
By Georg Büchner
Directed by Nuran David Calis
Schauspiel Stuttgart

Homers Ilias / Achill in Afghanistan
By Volker Lösch / Beate Seidel nach Homer
Directed by Volker Lösch
Schauspiel Stuttgart

Vienna

Die Kommune
By Mogens Rukov / Thomas Vinterberg
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Burgtheater im Akademietheater, Wien

Platonov [ausgewählt]
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Alvis Hermanis
Burgtheater im Akademietheater, Wien

Zurich

Platonow
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Barbara Frey
Schauspielhaus Zürich