Theatertreffen der Jugend

Theatertreffen der Jugend 2025

The next Theatertreffen der Jugend will take place from 30 May to 6 June 2025. Applications are now open again. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2025.

Theatertreffen der Jugend in the Media Library

In addition to the recording of the opening ceremony, the productions from Theatertreffen der Jugend will also be available in the Berliner Festspiele media library on the next working day after the respective performance until May 2025. The media library also offers on-demand content from previous years.

This year’s selection ranges from musicals and classic transmissions to collages, activist plays and a martial arts performance. In terms of content, the ensembles deal with unrequited love, queerness, fluid gender roles, the helplessness of society in the face of an uncertain future and the question of how peace can come about. 

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Epic Fail

© Berliner Festspiele / Treffen junge Szene

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Award Winners Theatertreffen der Jugend

All selected theatre productions since 1980

To the award winners

About Theatertreffen der Jugend

The Theatertreffen der Jugend sees itself as a platform and place of impulses and exchange, a place of learning where young theater makers can negotiate their working methods and their different themes and attitudes and are encouraged in their individual, artistic forms of expression. The focus is on the invited productions and the encounter and exchange between the young players and their directors in a wide variety of formats.

The Theatertreffen der Jugend is part of the Treffen junge Szene of the Berliner Festspiele and is sponsored as a national contest by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).