KISS KISS WOLF wins Best Short Film at the 28th Pink Apple Awards 2025

KISS KISS WOLF by lynn t musiol wins Best Short Film at the International Short Film Competition at the 28th Pink Apple 2025 Queer Film Festival in Zurich!

The jury said:
“A powerful and sensual intervention that weaves historical reality and queer utopia together in a fascinating way. The director takes us to a place that once stood for industrial production and patriarchal work structures—and transforms it into a laboratory of queer imagination. The result is a space of possibility where queer-lesbian perspectives are not only made visible, but celebrated. Resistant, lustful, and with a touch of glamour. The film won us over with its clever interplay of documentary and staged elements—and its stunning humor.
(https://pinkapple.ch/assets/Document/349/28PA_Laudatio_Kurzfilmwettbewerb.pdf)

09.05.25 DEATH IN PEACE at donaufestival in Krems

DEATH IN PIECE – Video performance and opera
Concept/direction: Ayla Pierrot Arendt

From May 9 to 11, DEATH IN PEACE will be presented as a video installation with the original score by Georgian composers Ani Zakareishvili & Nika Pasuri as part of the donaufestival in Krems.
The video opera offers an immersive experience, both visually and sonically — raising the deeply ambiguous questions: Who owns peace? Who deserves security? To whom do our voices and bodies belong?

The Austrian premiere will take place on May 9 at 9 p.m.

Calle Fuhr will become Author and Director in residence at Schauspiel Cologne

With the new artistic directorship of Kay Voges at Schauspiel Cologne, Calle Fuhr will become part of the artistic team. As resident playwright and director, he will join the team around the head dramaturg, Alexander Kerlin, starting with the 2025/26 season.

Calle Fuhr was born in Düsseldorf in 1994. He was an assistant director at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Wiener Festwochen and the Volkstheater Vienna. He has been working as an author and director since 2017 at Theater Basel, Volkstheater Vienna and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, among others.

Research theater and radio

Fuhr is considered one of the most renowned representatives of research theater. He regularly works with investigative media such as DOSSIER and CORRECTIV and has created works about real estate mogul René Benko, the fossil fuel companies LEAG and OMV, and the debt brake. Fuhr’s plays have been translated into several languages and invited to various festivals. His play Aufstieg und Fall des Herrn René Benko (The Rise and Fall of Mr. René Benko) by Volkstheater Vienna in cooperation with DOSSIER will be part of this year’s Radikal jung Festival in Munich.

He is also a regular guest at the Berliner Ensemble. The NDR wrote about his most recent work, Atlas, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: “We need theater like this. Wide awake, enlightening, sparkling with wisdom. Especially now.”

He also appears frequently on radio programs – including on Ö1, Deutschlandfunk and the BBC. He was invited to the Berlinale 2025 as part of the “Series Market” for his work on the series “Shit Happens”.

Theater Cologne

At Schauspiel Cologne, Calle Fuhr will continue his collaboration with CORRECTIV and take on responsibility for the focus area “Theater and Journalism”. As an integral part of the team, he will also build bridges to the city’s society and research innovative formats.

 

11.04.2025 Premiere: Fritzi Wartenberg stages ELISABETH! at Burgtheater Vienna

ELISABETH! by Mareike Fallwickl
Directed by: Fritzi Wartenberg
With Stefanie Reinsperger in the leading role
at Burgtheater Vienna

Together with author Mareike Fallwickl, Fritzi Wartenberg takes a multi-layered and feminist look at the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the Austrian superstar.

The world premiere will take place on April 11, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Burgtheater Vienna.
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10.04.2024 Premiere: Noam Brusilovsky stages QUEERinthia at Stadttheater Klagenfurt

QUEERinthia by Noam Brusilovsky
Director: Noam Brusilovsky
Assistance text & dramaturgy: Lotta Beckers

Stories about the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi era, memories of the victims of the Aids pandemic, whose deaths were shamefully concealed, merge in Carinthia’s past and present… A queer, alpine utopia. In other words, a folk festival.
The world premiere takes place on April 10, 2025 at Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
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5.04.2025 Premiere: BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA by & with Yousef Sweid, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA
A Lecture Performance by & with Yousef Sweid
Directed by: Isabelle Sedlack

BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA is a plea for sharing unheard stories and an invitation to bear witness to the complex story of a life that cannot choose a simple side.

The world premiere will take place on April 5, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. at Studio Я / Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.
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4.04.2025 World premiere: LANDSCAPES OF MAY by Penda Diouf at Theater Münster

MAY LANDSCHAFTEN by Penda Diouf
Directed by: Miriam Ibrahim
German translation: Remsi Al Khalisi

Commissioned by Theater Münster

May Ayim is the starting point of this evening, an evening of remembrance: French playwright Penda Diouf writes about the Afro-German poet who moved and saved so many lives, but ended her own at an early age. Diouf writes about how Black history is lived and remembered in Germany and about how Black sisterhood connects across generations.
A personal and communal evening about a Black reality of life in Germany.

The world premiere takes place on April 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Theater Münster statt.
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12.03.2025 German premiere: Marius von Mayenburg stages his play EX at Schaubühne Berlin

EX by Marius von Mayenburg
Directed by: Marius von Mayenburg

Daniel and Sibylle, married, two children, both have a career, both have settled into their upper middle class life without love and full of reproaches and resentment against each other. The picture-book façade seems to crumble when Daniel comes home late again and receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend Franziska. As Franziska appears at the door, the trio beginns a bitter game of power, truth and betrayal, at the end of which there are no winners.

The German premiere takes place on March 12, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Schaubühne Berlin.
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4.03.2025: Ayad Akhtar in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann about Art & AI, Deutsches Theater Berlin

Ayad Akhtar & Daniel Kehlmann: Art, AI and the Stories We Tell
Moderated by Jeffrey Goldberg

On March 5, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Welcome remarks by Daniel Benjamin, President, American Academy in Berlin; Karla Mäder, Head of Dramaturgy, Deutsches Theater Berlin.

What is the role of art in an age of technological change? How does artificial intelligence change the way we create and understand stories? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Ayad Akhtar and acclaimed German author Daniel Kehlmann discuss the intersection of art, technology and human experience.
Also, in his latest play MCNEAL (European premiere on March 1, 2025 at the Burgtheater Vienna) Ayad Akhtar explores these questions and reflects on topics such as authenticity, power and morality. Read more about the production DER FALL MCNEAL here.

The conversation is held in English without German translation.
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