The Peter-Weiss-Preis of the City of Bochum goes to Yael Ronen!
The jury unanimously selected Yael Ronen as the winner in the “Theater” category. In her work, “theater becomes a place of debate, collective self-questioning, and the possibility of empathy, without smoothing over the contradictions of the present.” Many of her plays “deal with trauma, resentment, and discrimination, with fears and moral ambivalence, often against a backdrop of extreme violence, war, and displacement. It is the same dark terrain that already preoccupied Peter Weiss. Like him, she takes a critical stance in her theater work—from a position that is deeply oriented toward life and dialogue,” the jury said in its statement.
“Ran Chai Bar-zvi always handles even large, existential material with lightness and an incredible instinct for entertainment, […] yet he never runs the risk of trivializing the serious core of the plays,” emphasizes Almut Wagner – as in ‘Blutbuch’, the work for which Ran Chai Bar-zvi receives the prize.