The Shortlisted Productions 2015

These 36 productions were considered and discussed by the jury.

Basel

Die Wildente
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Amélie Niermeyer
Theater Basel

Berlin

Common Ground [selected]
By Yael Ronen & Ensemble
Directed by Yael Ronen
Maxim Gorki Theater

Erster Europäischer Mauerfall – Die Verwundeten
Eine Aktion des Zentrums für Politische Schönheit
Artistic Director Philipp Ruch
Maxim Gorki Theater / Zentrum für Politische Schönheit

Frühlingsopfer
She She Pop and their mothers
Directed by She She Pop
HAU Hebbel am Ufer / FFT Düsseldorf / Tanzhaus NRW / Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt / Kaserne Basel / brut Wien / Prager Theaterfestival deutscher Sprache / Archa Theater, Prag / Kyoto Experiment 2014 / Théâtre de la Ville – Festival d’Automne à Paris

The Past
By Constanza Macras / DorkyPark / Oscar Bianchi
Directed by Constanza Macras
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz / HELLERAU Europäisches Zentrum der Künste

Warten auf Godot [selected]
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Ivan Panteleev
Deutsches Theater / Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen

Woyzeck
By Georg Büchner
Directed by Sebastian Hartmann
Deutsches Theater

Dresden

Baumeister Solness
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Frank Castorf
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen
By Ragnar Kjartansson
Directed by Ragnar Kjartansson
Composition Kjartan Sveinsson
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Karamasow
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Directed by Thorsten Lensing
Sophiensaele / Kampnagel, Hamburg / Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster / Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg / Schauspiel Stuttgart / HELLERAU Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden / TAK Theater Liechtenstein

Tessa Blomstedt gibt nicht auf
By Christoph Marthaler
Directed by Christoph Marthaler
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Bochum

Freitag
By Hugo Claus
Directed by Eric de Vroedt
Schauspielhaus Bochum

Cologne

Dogville
Based on Lars von Trier
Directed by Bastian Kraft
Schauspiel Köln

Dresden

Drei Schwestern
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Tilmann Köhler
Staatsschauspiel Dresden

Faust 1
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Directed by Linus Tunström
Staatsschauspiel Dresden

Duisburg

Le Sacre du Printemps
Choreography for 40 Machines
with music by Igor Stravinsky
Directed by Romeo Castellucci
Ruhrtriennale – Gebläsehalle, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord / Manchester International Festival / Perm State Opera / Parc de la Villette Paris

Graz

Community
By Yael Ronen & Company
Directed by Yael Ronen
Schauspielhaus Graz

Hamburg

Die Schutzbefohlenen [selected]
By Elfriede Jelinek
Directed by Nicolas Stemann
Thalia Theater

Die Tragödie von Romeo und Julia
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jette Steckel
Thalia Theater

Front
Based on Erich Maria Remarque “Im Westen nichts Neues” and Henri Barbusse “Le Feu” / Time Documents
Directed by Luk Perceval
Thalia Theater / NTGent, Belgien

John Gabriel Borkman [selected]
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Karin Henkel
Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

Hannover

Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln [selected]
By Judith Schalansky
Directed by Thom Luz
Schauspiel Hannover

Munich

Baal [selected]
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Frank Castorf
Residenztheater

Faust
By Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Directed by Martin Kušej
Residenztheater

Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald
By Ödön von Horváth
Directed by Stephan Kimmig
Münchner Kammerspiele

Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? [selected]
Based on the film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler
Directed by Susanne Kennedy
Münchner Kammerspiel

Stuttgart

Das Fest [selected]
Based on the film by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov
Directed by Christopher Rüping
Schauspiel Stuttgart

Das kalte Herz
Based on Wilhelm Hauff
Directed by Armin Petras
Schauspiel Stuttgart

Herbstsonate
Based on Ingmar Bergman
Directed by Jan Bosse
Schauspiel Stuttgart / Deutsches Theater

Vienna

Die Krönung Richards III.
By Hans Henny Jahnn
Directed by Frank Castorf
Burgtheater

Die lächerliche Finsternis [selected]
By Wolfram Lotz
Directed by Dušan David Pařízek
Burgtheater im Akademietheater

die unverheiratete [selected]
By Ewald Palmetshofer
Directed by Robert Borgmann
Burgtheater im Akademietheater

Maria Magdalena
By Friedrich Hebbel
Directed by Michael Thalheimer
Burgtheater

Wunschloses Unglück
Based on Peter Handke
Directed by Katie Mitchell
Burgtheater im Kasino

Zurich

Matto regiert
Based on Friedrich Glauser
Directed by Sebastian Nübling
Schauspielhaus Zürich

Roberto Zucco
By Bernard-Marie Koltès
Directed by Karin Henkel
Schauspielhaus Zürich