15.05.2024: Eliza Petkova’s feature THE WORKER part of Brussels CoPro Market

Eliza Petkova’s new feature THE WORKER has been invited to the Brussels CoPro Market, where it will be presented to potential co-producers as part of a selection of 9 films in the “Up-and-coming Producers” section.

THE WORKER portrays of a young Roma from the Bulgarian province who sets off on a journey to Germany in quest for money and happiness.

THE WORKER
A feature film by Elza Petkova
Production: Rohfilm Factory (Karsten Stöter), Fourmat Film (Nicolas Kronauer)

Yael Ronen honored with B.Z. Culture Award

Front row: Yael Ronen, Constanza Macras and award winner Margot Friedländer (from left). Second row:Felix Lobrecht, Wim Wenders and Aylin Tezel (from left). Photo: Ralf Günther

For the 33rd time, the prize was awarded to outstanding artists who shine a special light on Berlin through their work. The award ceremony took place with a grand gala at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz.

Ayad Akhtar (USA)

Ayad Akhtar ist Romanautor und Dramatiker. Seine Werke wurden in über zwanzig Sprachen veröffentlicht und aufgeführt. Er ist Träger des Pulitzer-Preises für Drama, der Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction und eines Literaturpreises der American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Als Dramatiker schrieb er Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony-Nominierung); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony-Nominierung); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); und The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier- und Evening Standard-Nominierungen). Sein Stück McNeal wird im Herbst 2024 im Vivian Beaumont Theater des Lincoln Center uraufgeführt.

Akhtar ist der Autor von Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), das als „Meisterwerk“ (Publisher’s Weekly) und „eine Tour de Force“ (The Washington Post) bezeichnet und von der New York Times zu einem der zehn besten Bücher des Jahres gewählt wurde. Sein erster Roman, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), wurde in über 20 Sprachen veröffentlicht.

Neben anderen Auszeichnungen erhielt Ayad Akhtar den Steinberg Playwrighting Award, den Nestroy Award, den Erwin Piscator Award sowie Stipendien von der American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, dem Sundance Institute und Yaddo, wo er als Board Director tätig ist. Darüber hinaus ist Ayad Akhtar Kuratoriumsmitglied bei PEN America, wo er von 2020 bis 2023 als Präsident fungierte. Im Jahr 2021 wurde Akhtar zum Autor des Staates New York ernannt, als Nachfolger von Colson Whitehead.

 

Productions by Calle Fuhr and Ran Chai Bar-zvi are part of “radikal jung” Festival 2024

The Munich Volkstheater has announced the program for this year’s “radikal jung” festival:
included are the productions DAS GROSSE HEFT by Ágota Kristóf (directed by / stage adaptation by: Ran Chai Bar-zvi) and DAS KRAFTWERK – Ein Theaterabend über Wasser, Kohle und die Ewigkeit by Calle Fuhr (directed by: Afram Tafreshian).

DAS GROSSE HEFT plays on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.
DAS KRAFTWERK – a Theater Evening about Water, Coal and Eternity plays on Monday, April 22, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.

The aim of the festival is to promote the new generation of theater makers, to follow their thematic and aesthetic preferences and to present a modern theater landscape to both a professional audience and a broad public. The jury consisted of: Jens Hillje, Christine Wahl, C. Bernd Sucher and Florian Fischer.

The festival will take place from April 19 to April 27, 2024.
Program & tickets: link

30.03.2024: Premiere HOUSE OF KARLS from & with Dlé

HOUSE OF KARLS
A very entertaining rap spectacle about Charlemagne
from & with Dlé
Director: Florian Hertweck
Music & text: Dlé (Florian Hertweck, Malcolm Kemp, Tim Knapper)
at Theater Aachen

What do we really know about Charlemagne? Christian emperor and womaniser, illiterate and educational reformer, “Builder of Europe” and bloodthirsty warmonger – the sources are biased and thin – the best conditions for a theatre play!
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27.03.2024: Fritzi Wartenberg stages MALINA at Berliner Ensemble

MALINA
from Igenborg Bachmann
Stage adoptation: Fritzi Wartenberg
Directed by: Fritzi Wartenberg
am Berliner Ensemble

What does it feel like to be free in love and to be able to say “me” in a world that aknowledges no “us”?
Ingeborg Bachmann’s novel, adapted for the stage by Fritzi Wartenberg, examines what does it mean when one’s hopes do not coincide with social expectations.
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16.03.2024: Premiere AUFSTIEG UND FALL DES HERRN RENÉ BENKO by & with Calle Fuhr

AUFSTIEG UND FALL DES HERRN RENÉ BENKO
from & with Calle Fuhr
in cooperation with  DOSSIER
at Volkstheater Wien

In his play, Calle Fuhr uncovers the evil machinations behind property speculation, gentrification and fraud. As he unveils one scandal after another in the most entertaining way, one can’t help but stunning. At the end, you begin to ask yourself who can actually be trusted.

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