In our multimedia stories, we highlight selected topics of the festival, explore background information and start conversations.

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<h3>Providing a Platform: Burning Issues</h3>The story “Providing a Platform: Burning Issues” serves to extend and consolidate the topics addressed at the conference at the 2022 Theatertreffen. We are living in times of change. This conference and this guide were an attempt to capture some “BURNING ISSUES” and to make a variety of voices heard.

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<h3>Who Has the Privilege to Not Know?</h3>The question of “Who has the privilege to not know?” was of special significance during the concept phase of the 2023 festival edition. With no claims of being complete, this story provides room for answers, viewpoints and considerations of young culture makers who attended the 2023 Theatertreffen in the context of the formats International Forum and Theatertreffen-Blog.

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<h3>Steps Towards Greater Sustainability</h3>The story “Steps towards more sustainability” provides an insight into the Theatertreffen's carbon footprint and the recycling-based Festival centre 2022.

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The 2025 Open Call

This Open Call for the International Forum is addressed at artists at the beginning of their artistic practice who have already gathered some initial professional experience. They may be from all sectors of the performing arts, especially from the fields of directing, acting, set and costume design, dramaturgy, text production, music, video, performance, media, choreography, production management and theatre education.Around 35 artists from around the world will be invited to come to Berlin, to watch theatre together, to talk, to (re-)consider, to experiment and to make connections. The fellows will have the opportunity to attend the festival, to take part in intensive workshops with international artists, to reflect together the productions invited to Theatertreffen and theatre in general and to exchange ideas.Deadline for applications: 5 December 2024 (23:59, CET)

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On 22 January, the Theatertreffen’s jury of critics announced their selection of 10 most remarkable productions for the 2025 Theatertreffen at a press conference. Our congratulations go to the nominated production teams and all participants!

The 10 Most Remarkable Productions 2025

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A new edition of “BURNING ISSUES x Theatertreffen” is in planning under the title “PERFORMING ARTS &amp; SOLIDARITY”, in co-operation with Szenografie-Bund as well as with Deutsches Theater Berlin and Sophiensaele. The Theatertreffen-programme, which will feature a range of discursive formats and keynotes, is being developed by Nora Hertlein-Hull together with dramaturgs Aljoscha Begrich and Sima Djabar Zadegan with reference to the ten selected productions.&nbsp; Nele Hertling will receive the Theatre Prize Berlin of Stiftung Preu&szlig;ische Seehandlung for her services to the theatre. As Theatertreffen’s long-standing media partner, 3sat will present especially produced TV-recordings of productions invited to the festival in its programme. This year’s “Starke St&uuml;cke” are: “Bucket List” (Schaub&uuml;hne am Lehniner Platz), “Laios. ANTHROPOLIS II” (Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg) and “Macbeth” (Schauspielhaus Bochum).&nbsp; The programme schedule of the 2024 Theatertreffen will be published on 5&nbsp;April; ticket sales begin on 19&nbsp;April.&nbsp;

Preparations Are Underway for the 2024 Edition of the Festival

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The Theatertreffen invites 30 exciting artists from all parts of the world to attend and reflect the festival and to exchange ideas and experiences across artistic and national boundaries. We are very much looking forward to welcoming all participants and thank everyone for their applications! More than 700 artists from 75 countries responded to the Open Call published in the autumn of 2023.

The 2024 International Forum Participants

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“Reviews are the worst thing about this job,” comments director Jette Steckel, who was invited to the 2023 Theatertreffen with “Die Vaterlosen”, in a guest article written for the Theatertreffen-Blog. Here young art journalists took a critical look at the 10 productions and themes all around the Theatertreffen. Reviews, essays and interviews were 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”.

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Theatertreffen 2024: Impressionen

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Each year, the 10 most remarkable productions are selected by a jury of critics from up to 600&nbsp;shows within the German-language region and the viewing period.

The 10 Productions

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The International Forum is an initial impetus for collaboration, the search for diverse local perspectives on global issues, and a free space for developing artistic ideas together.

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Aspiring arts journalists with a keen interest in the theatre&nbsp;will attend and critically reflect the Theatertreffen with the support of experienced mentors.

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“MOMO” has two souls. One sends long roots to the depths of the earth – a soul that embodies archetypes and myths of hardened, raw masculinity, and the other is in a constant search for an individual and distinct DNA. A shared passion of deep sorrow and beauty unfolds on stage.

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With three works created over a period of more than 40 years, the Performing Arts Season dedicates an evening to the American choreographer Trisha Brown, looking at her artistic work and its continuation after her death in 2017 as if under a magnifying glass.

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The 24th edition of MaerzMusik will present multidisciplinary projects and concerts that transcend traditional dualisms, presenting new interrelational perspectives that underscore the profound interconnectedness of social, technological and ecological systems. Get your tickets now for selected programme highlights that have already been published.

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Eight selected concert highlights of Musikfest Berlin 2025 have already been published and are on sale. These include guest performances by the world’s best symphony orchestras and choirs from the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Italy, which are rarely heard in Berlin.

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On three packed days devoted to this theme, prominent speakers discuss in a series of panel discussions, lectures and workshops the future of debate culture. Artistic perspectives on processes of social negotiation will be offered by the dance piece “Freedom Sonata” and the video installation “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: BELANCIEGE”.

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Marking twenty years since artist, writer and performer Vaginal Davis made Berlin her home, Gropius Bau presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of her work in Germany. In her expansive oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets Black counter-culture and resistance meets desire.

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The recordings of “Bucket List”, “Laios. ANTHROPOLIS II” and “Macbeth” – the three 2024 “Starke St&uuml;cke” of 3sat – will be accessible in the 3sat Media Library and the Media Library of Berliner Festspiele from 2 May to 30 August 2024 (“Bucket List” until 2 May 2027). Selected events, texts and archival material are also available in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library.

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The topics addressed in the selection inspire us to engage with the urgent issues of our times.

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The International Forum is the initial spark for global collaboration, alliances and actions as well as the platform for collective dialogue on global issues from diverse, local perspectives.&nbsp;

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Open Call 2024

This Open Call of the Theatertreffen-Blog is aimed at aspiring arts journalists, authors and theatre enthusiasts who would like to attend and critically reflect the 2024 Theatertreffen.Deadline for applications: 11 February 2024

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The next Theatertreffen will take place from 2 to 18 May 2025. The 10 most remarkable productions, selected by a <a href="${link:{uuid:{1c495102-7d10-43fc-b87c-f22293697438},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/theatertreffen/das-festival/ueber-die-10-inszenierungen/jurys/jury-2025}}}">jury of critics</a>, will be announced in a press conference on 22&nbsp;January. The programme schedule will be published in April.

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The ten most remarkable productions, selected by a <a href="${link:{uuid:{1c495102-7d10-43fc-b87c-f22293697438},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/theatertreffen/das-festival/ueber-die-10-inszenierungen/jurys/jury-2025}}}">jury of critics</a>, will be announced in a press conference on Wednesday, 22 January 2025, at 11:00 at Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The press confence will be available as a&nbsp;live stream in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library.

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The next Theatertreffen will take place from 2 to 19&nbsp;May 2024. The 10&nbsp;remarkable productions, selected by a <a href="${link:{uuid:{48cb521b-4064-44ff-8f92-f1c6581d87af},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/theatertreffen/das-festival/ueber-die-10-inszenierungen/jurys/jury-2024}}}">jury of critics</a>, will be announced in a press conference on Friday, 26&nbsp;January 2024, 11:00. The press confence will be available as a&nbsp;<a href="https://mediathek.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/theatertreffen/2024/pressekonferenz-theatertreffen">live stream in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library</a>. The programme schedule will be published in April.

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With its 2020 festival edition, the Theatertreffen introduced a female quota of at least 50 percent in the direction position for the ten most remarkable productions. The jury and the festival’s directors have agreed to extend this rule for another year, up to and including the 2025 festival.

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The volume of debate essays “Status Quote. Theater im Umbruch: Regisseurinnen im Gespr&auml;ch”, edited by Sabine Leucht, Petra Paterno and Katrin Ullmann and published at Henschel Verlag, presents all female directors who have been invited to Theatertreffen (inlucing the 2023 edition) since the female quota was introduced in 2020.

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Two award ceremonies, the traditional concluding jury discussion and more performances from among the ten remarkable productions concluded Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen on Monday 20th May. Nearly all 40 events of the 61st festival edition were sold out.“A good atmosphere, intensive participation in all formats, full houses: The remarkable productions as well as the strong interest of both audience and experts made the 2024 TT into a true celebration of the theatre.”— Nora Hertlein-Hull, Director of Theatertreffen

A True Celebration Of The Theatre

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37 productions were suggested and discussed for nomination for the 2025 Theatertreffen by the jury members.

The 2025 Shortlisted Productions

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Seven theatre critics determine the festival’s 10 most remarkable productions.&nbsp;

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The Theatertreffen’s database lists every production, theatre and director invited to the festival since 1964.

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Each year, 10 remarkable productions are selected by a jury of critics from more than 600&nbsp;shows within the German-language region and the viewing period.

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The Forum Ecological Sustainability in the Theatre was created as a space for theatre makers to educate themselves and develop networks for issues of sustainable cultural production.

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Each year, the Theatertreffen brings the 10 most remarkable productions from the German-language region as well as the works of emerging artists to Berlin.