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31.10.2024
8.11.2024: Premiere GRAND HORIZONS by Bess Wohl at Theater Bielefeld
GRANS HORIZONS (Dt. ROSIGE AUSSICHT)
by Bess Wohl
German translation by lynn t musiol & Christian Tschirner
Premiere at Theater Bielefeld
Director: Dariusch Yazdkhasti
After fifty years of marriage, Nancy says out of the blue at the dinner table: “I think I want a divorce.” Her husband agrees and continues eating undisturbed. Her two sons, on the other hand, don’t like the decision at all. They try to change their parents’ minds – and in doing so, they are fighting for themselves: one wants to save his image of family, the other fears cracks in his traditional role as a man and soon-to-be father. In the end, despite the divorce, everyone starts talking and listening to each other. And suddenly there it is: the possibility of loving each other!
22.10.2024
DER VEREIN by Steffen Link has been nominated for Nestroy Theater Award 2024
Steffen Link is nominated for Best Play – Nestroy Author Award with his debut DER VEREIN.
The award ceremony will take place on November 24, 2024 at the Volkstheater Vienna.
Click here for the jury’s statement
DER VEREIN (en. The Club) by Steffen Link
Free for a German premiere
The world premiere was in March 2024 at Schauspielhaus Wien (director: Theresa Thomasberger)
A housing estate on the edge of a small town – Stefan grows up in this idyllic terraced house. Between family strife and everyday school life, a third factor determines the teenager’s life: his parents have joined a free Christian church. The sheltered community has grown over the years. Who wouldn’t want to have the Savior himself as their best friend? But this friendship is not a gift. The members have to bear witness to each other about their lifestyle, their dreams and their desires. Those who disappoint Jesus are in danger of falling deeply. And Stefan must fear that this is exactly what will happen to him. Because he dreams of theater, and he desires men, which pleases neither the Messiah nor his club.
21.10.2024
World premiere for SILENT OBSERVERS by Eliza Petkova, IDFA 2024
On November 22, 2024, Eliza Petkova’s SILENT OBSEREVERS will celebrate its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The 37th edition of IDFA will take place from November 14 to 24, 2024.
SILENT OBSERVERS
DE/BG, 96 min, 2024
Director, screenplay, editor: Eliza Petkova
Director of photography: Constanze Schmitt
Production: Red Carpet, Wood Water Films, rbb
As the population declines in a remote, run-down Bulgarian village, a traditional way of life comes to an end: the camera follows the last remaining inhabitants from the perspective of domesticated animals. Did the neighbor punish her violent son and turn him into a donkey? Is the cat possessed by a vampire? The villagers’ superstitions are fascinating and mysterious, and their affection for the animals contrasts with the raw way of treating them. With great attention to detail and passion for her four-legged protagonists, Eliza Petkova concentrates on portraying the animals without attributing thoughts or feelings to them.
Trailer
21.10.2024
Prix Italia for “EXZESS: Eine Techno-Oper” by Noam Brusilovsky & Tobias Purfürst
The 76th edition of PRIX ITALIA took place in Turin from October 1 to 4, 2024 under the title “Loud and Clear”. The production “EXZESS: A Techno Opera” by Noam Brusilovsky and Tobias Purfürst won in the “Radio & Podcast Music” category.
16.09.2024
21.09.2024: MONOPOLY from and by Calle Fuhr at Theater Magdeburg
MONOPOLY – Eine Besteigung des deutschen Schuldenberges
from & by Calle Fuhr
at Theater Magdeburg
Co-produced by Festival OSTEN
The recession is in full swing, there is a lack of money in the next federal budget and Calle Fuhr wants to make his contribution to stabilizing the German economy. Because – if every citizen donates something to the state, he thinks – the debt hole can close quickly! But it’s not that simple.
The premiere takes place on September 21, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. at Theater Magdeburg.
Information & tickets
06.09.2024
14.09.2024: Premiere VERLANGEN by Lisa Wentz, an adaptation of DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS by Eugene O’Neill
VERLANGEN (DESIRE) by Lisa Wentz
an adaptation of DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS by Eugene O’Neill
German translation: Lisa Wentz
Director: Cilly Drexler
Three brothers long to free themselves from their father’s tyranny. While one of them wishes to inherit the barren farm, the others are in a gold rush. The struggle for power and love begins when Agnes – the old man’s new, young bride – enters the yard.
With VERLANGEN (German for desire), Lisa Wentz tells Eugene O’Neill’s DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS from a radical, feminine perspective.
The premiere took place on September 14, 2024 at Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck.
Information & tickets
12.09.2024
13.09.2024: Ran Chai Bar-zvi stages LIEBES ARSCHLOCH at Theater Münster
LIEBES ARSCHLOCH (orig.: “Cher connard”) by Virginie Despentes
Stage adoptation: Victoria Weich
Direction, set design, costume: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
at Theater Münster
06.09.2024
13.09.2024: DER DÄMON IN DIR MUSS HEIMAT FINDEN by Lola Fuchs at Theater Dortmund
DER DÄMON IN DIR MUSS HEIMAT FINDEN
Written & directed by: Lola Fuchs
Premiere at Theater Dortmund
In order to free herself from horrendous debts (and bff creditors), Mandy-Galadriel embarks on a consciousness-expanding encounter with her inner child. Guided by guru Veronika von Sonnen and her “soulmate” Markus, who promise to heal the negative “shadow energy”, Mandy-Galadriel slips into the depths of entrepreneurial nefariousness.
The premiere takes place on September 13, 2024 at Theater Dortmund.
Information & tickets
05.08.2024
5.–7.09.2024: BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱ Paranoia at Schaubühne Berlin
BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱
PARANOIA
by lynn t musiol & Marcus Peter Tesch
BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱ PARANOIA gazes at the secret histories of queer suspicion and suspicious queerness. In their performance, lynn t musiol and Marcus Peter Tesch explore paranoid queer theory from Sigmund Freud to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, examining the fusion between the theatrical and the performative, the pre-rehearsed and the unrehearsable.
The performance takes place on:
– Thursday, September 5, 2024, at 8:30 p.m.
– Friday, September 6, 2024, at 8:30 p.m.
– Saturday, September 7, 2024, at 8:30 p.m. at Studio / Schaubühne Berlin
Tickets
03.09.2024
“EXZESS – A Techno-Opera” by Noam Brusilovsky & Tobias Purfürst is shortlisted for Prix Italia
The 76th edition of PRIX ITALIA will take place in Turin from October 1-4, 2024 under the title “Loud and Clear”.
The competition features the production “EXZESS – A Techno Opera” by Noam Brusilovsky and Tobias Purfürst (category: Radio & Podcast Music).
Jessica and Brian, a tourist couple, visit Berlin’s most famous techno club. They are happy to have made it inside this huge industrial hall shrouded in legend. Their plan: dance, take drugs, indulge in the sound. A few hours later, Jessica is found by the club staff, collapsing on the floor. The diagnosis: intoxication with high doses of ecstasy. She is dead within a few hours.
The radiophonic techno opera EXZESS tells the story of dying in a club. In an uninterrupted techno set, the protagonist Jessica (Susanna Hurrell) sings her dying aria. The tragedy is that Jessica is fully aware that her organs are gradually failing and that time cannot be turned back. And as in classical opera, dying becomes spectacular in this technoid epic.
16.08.2024
Performances by Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss at Noorderzon Festival, NL
Two new performances by the critically acclaimed New York duo Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss can be seen at this year’s edition of Noorderzon Festival:
24 – 29 August, 2024 – WHILE YOU WERE PARTYING
A heady mix of vulnerable positions and hammer blows, a fresh and funny, uncompromising theatrical world that digs deep into the ugly side of us to reveal the humanity behind it.
27 – 29 August, 2024 – OPEN MIC NIGHT
A eulogy to an imaginary DIY hangout where crossing boundaries is the norm and no one cleans the toilets. With cheap beer!
16.08.2024
25.–26.08.2024: VACA by Guillermo Calderón part of Kunstfest Weimar
VACA (Cow) by Guillermo Calderón
Directed by: Guillermo Calderón
Guillermo Calderón is one of Chile’s most prominent playwrights. In his play VACA (“Cow”), three realities collide: a half-broken theater stage with a socially irrelevant program, a cheaply equipped TV-studio with radicalizing talk shows and a workshop of bicycle suppliers struggling for their own existence. And the whole thing revolves around a sick cow that suddenly gives too much milk!
The world premiere will take place on August 25 at 4 p.m. as part of the Kunstfest Weimar.
On August 26, following the performance (8 p.m.), Thomas Oberender, Chairman of the Goethe Medal Commission, will talk to Guillermo Calderón and Carmen Romero Quero, “Teatro a Mil” Foundation.
Information & tickets
18.06.2024
6.07.2024: BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱ live, laugh, love at Schaubühne Berlin
BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱
live, laugh, love
by lynn t musiol & guests
BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱ live, laugh, love enables an insight into queer-lesbian relationships, romances and porn stories in the GDR.
On Saturday, July 6, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. in Studio of the Schaubühne Berlin
Tickets
20.06.2024
21. + 22.06.2024: bitter fields by les dramaturx at sophiensæle Berlin
Bitter Fields – Eine Recherche-Revue
by & with les dramaturx
les dramaturx ask themselves whether there really is a connection between the rise of the political right and climate change, and come to the bitter realization that they themselves are much more involved than they would like.
Guest performances on June 21 & June 22, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 70 min
Hochzeitssaal @ sophiensæle Berlin
Tickets
A production by les dramaturx in cooperation with OSTEN-Festival Bitterfeld-Wolfen. The guest performance takes place as part of the series DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN. Nationwide Forums for Art, Freedom and Democracy, a series of events by the Fonds Darstellende Künste in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Chamäleon Berlin, fabrik Potsdam, FFT Düsseldorf, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Impulse Theater Festival, Kunstfest Weimar 2024, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, OSTEN Festival Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Plattenstufen-Festspiele presented by PHOENIX Theaterfestival Erfurt, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Societaetstheater Dresden, Sophiensӕle Berlin, Zentralwerk e. V. Dresden. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
02.05.2024
20.06.2024: spinne by Maja Zade premieres at Schaubühne Berlin
spinne
a monologue by Maja Zade
Director: Maja Zade
spinne (spider) is a monologue about the difficulty of talking to each other despite different political views and lifestyles.
The premiere will take place on June 20, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Schaubühne Berlin.
Information & tickets
11.06.2024
IT’S BURNING by Erol Afşin screens at Raindance Film Festival London
Erol Afşin’s feature film IT’S BURNING will screen at the London Raindance Film Festival! Based on a true story, the movie portrays an Arab family living in Germany whose life has been turned upside down after a racist attack.
IT’S BURNING is nominated for Best Debut Director, Best Director Feature and Best Performance in a Debut.
The Raindance Festival is the largest indie film festival in the UK and will take place for the 32nd time from June 19 – 28, 2024 in London’s West End.
Dates, venues & tickets
13.06.2024
14.06.2024: Marco Damghani stages ENDGAME at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
ENDGAME by Juri Strenburg
Director: Marco Damghani
A play about soccer, the corrupt machinations behind the scenes and a determined person who finds him:herself in the right place (VIP box of the Berlin Olympic Stadium) at the right time (July 14, 2024 – final of the European Football Championship).
Premiere on June 14, 2024 at 7 p.m. in the Studio of Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
Tickets & infos
23.04.2024
9.06.2024: ÖDIPUS IN DER GIFTFABRIK Performance Lecture by les dramaturx, Osten Festival
ÖDIPUS IN DER GIFTFABRIK –
EINE KLEINE GESCHICHTE DES ARTENSTERBENS
Lecture Performance by les dramaturx
In cooperation with Theater Magdeburg
On June 6, 2024 at 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Rathaus Wolfen, Hörsaal
Free entrance, in German language
More information
03.06.2024
6.06.2024: Calle Fuhr stages ALPHABET at Kasemattentheater Luxemburg
ALPHABET
Director & set designer: Calle Fuhr
Inspired by the New Yorker’s story “Climate Change from A to Z”, author and director Calle Fuhr has created his own ‘climate alphabet’: the result is a cartography of the climate crisis from the invention of the carbon footprint, over climate denialist lobby organizations, to solutions that have been existant for years!
The premiere takes place on June 6, 2024, at 8 p.m.
More information & tickets: link
23.04.2024
26.05.2024: BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱ POESIEN EINES CUTS part of the Britney Festival Cologne
BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱
POESIEN EINES CUTS
by lynn t musiol & guests
POESIEN EINES CUTS (Poerty of A Haircut) explores aesthetics of rupture and beginning as a mixture of upbeat pop, conversation and the shine of hairdressing scissors.
On May 26, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. in Kupferzug,
Schauspiel Köln
Tickets
02.05.2024
25.05.2024: Fritzi Wartenberg stages MONTE ROSA at Theater Luzern
MONTE ROSA by Teresa Dopler
Directed by: Fritzi Wartenberg
Fritzi Wartenberg stages the Swiss premiere of Teresa Dopler’s MONTE ROSA: a play about alpinism, climate change, meritocracy and youth mania.
The premiere will take place on May 25, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.
Information & tickets
21.05.2024
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)
08.05.2024
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.
18.04.2024
4.05.2024: Premiere STATE OF AFFAIRS by Yael Ronen & Roy Chen at Thalia Theater Hamburg
STATE OF AFFAIRS
by Yael Ronen & Roy Chen
Director: Yael Ronen
at Thalia Theater Hamburg
A play about interpersonal entanglements, private and collegial sensitivities and the question of the responsibility of art in times of crisis and war.
The premiere will take place on May 4, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Thalia Theater Hamburg.
Tickets & info
29.04.2024
27.04.2024: Opera ZAÏDE/ADAMA, director & set designer: Ran Chai Bar-zvi, Theater Aachen
ZAÏDE/ADAMA
fragments by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Chaya Czernowin
in a version with choir by Chaya Czernowin & Ludger Engels
Director & stage designer: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
at Theater Aachen
07.03.2024
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
18.04.2024
15.05.2024: BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱ POESIEN EINES CUTS by lynn t musiol
BUCCI × ꒰(・ ‿ ・)꒱
POESIEN EINES CUTS
by lynn t musiol & guests
POESIEN EINES CUTS (Poerty of A Haircut) explores aesthetics of rupture and beginning as a mixture of upbeat pop, conversation and the shine of hairdressing scissors.
On May 15, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio of the
Schaubühne Berlin
Tickets
26.03.2024
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
26.03.2024
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
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.
26.03.2024
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.
07.03.2024
8.03.2024: Premiere KEIMZELLEN by Rébecca Déraspe at Theater Duisburg
KEIMZELLEN by Rébecca Déraspe
Director: Michael Steindl
German translator: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
Aude and Lou are best friends. For 35 years they have been able to find solace in each other’s sorrows. Now Aude is pregnant and her fetus has trisomy 21. Lou insists on an abortion, Aude wants to keep the child.
The two ruthlessly argue about life and their own values – a declaration of love to female friendship.
The premiere will take place on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets & further dates: link
07.03.2024
7.03.2024: Premiere DER VEREIN by Steffen Link at Schauspielhaus Wien
DER VEREIN (THE ASSOCIATION) by Steffen Link
Director: Theresa Thomasberger
There’s not much to do in a small German town, which is why a group of adults get together to form a Bible reading group. Gradually, the self-appointed pastor becomes a fanatical leader who makes decisions about the lives of the members of his ‘association’.
The world premiere will take place on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Schauspielhaus Wien.
Tickets & further dates: link
30.01.2024
24.02.2024: ELLEN BABIĆ by Marius von Mayenburg at Berliner Ensemble
ELLEN BABIĆ by Marius von Mayenburg
Director: Oliver Reese
When Astrid invites her supervisor Wolfram Balderkamp for an informal work meeting, her partner Klara is outraged. Balderkamp teaches at the same school where Klara was Astrid’s pupil ten years ago. What happens when he remembers her?
Like a spider, Wolfram prowls through the apartment and weaves a dangerous questioning web: where did the two of them meet? and when exactly? What happened with this one girl on the school trip?
The German-language premiere will take place on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets & further dates
01.02.2024
20.02.2024: Berlin premiere for IT’S BURNING by Erol Afşin
Following its successful premiere at the 40th Munich Film Festival, Erol Afşin’s drama IT’S BURNING (ES BRENNT) has toured through national and international festivals.
The debut will screen for the first time in Berlin on February 20, 2024 at Maxim Gorki Theater at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets available under this link.
IT’S BURNING
D, feature, 88 min., 2022
Directed & written by: Erol Afşin
Amal, Omar and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. In the playground, they meet a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. A court case is initiated. During the hearings, an incident occurs that will completely change the family’s life.
Based on a true story.
16.01.2024
16.02.2024: Ran Chai Bar-zvi directs JUPITER BRÜLLT at Staatstheater Mainz (Premiere)
JUPITER BRÜLLT (Premiere)
Text by: Annika Henrich
Director: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Scenes from the marriage of Martin and Katja – he is a coach, she is a therapist, both now are astronautics trainees – who fly to Jupiter in a space capsule…
The premiere will take place on February 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm.
Tickets & further dates under this link.
11.01.2024
9.02.2024: Seth Bockley’s Opera THE CRASH at Staatstheater Oldenburg
The Crash
A financial tragicomedy in two acts
Libretto: Seth Bockley
Composition: Russell Hepplewhite
It is 2008 and the US real estate bubble bursts. The Lehman Brothers investment bank announces insolvency. What follows is a global financial crisis and the search for the culprits.
British composer Russell Hepplewhite and American librettist Seth Bockley create a blackly humorous farce about a system that enabled a few players to amass wealth at the expense of ordinary people.
In English language with German surtitles.
Premiere on Februar 9, 2024 at 8:oo p.m.
Tickets & futher dates under this link
05.02.2024
8.02.2024: Tina Satter’s debut REALITY in German movie theaters
German cinema release for Tina Satter’s film REALITY starts on February 8, 2024. REALITY premiered to rave reviews at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
Reality Winner, a young U.S. Air Force employee, is suspected of being a whistleblower. First, the FBI agents search her house. Then a grueling interrogation begins… Based on true events.
REALITY
Written and directed by: Tina Satter
Based on Tina Satter’s play IS THIS A ROOM, 2019
Starring: Sydney Sweeney (as Reality), Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
USA, 2022, Seaview production
30.01.2024
BUCKET LIST by Yael Ronen & Shlomi Shaban part of the Theatertreffen 2024
BUCKET LIST by Yael Ronen and Shlomi Shaban is one of the ten most remarkable productions invited to the Theatertreffen 2024. This was announced by the jury, consisting of Eva Behrendt, Janis El-Bira, Valeria Heintges, Martin Thomas Pesl, Katrin Ullmann, Theresa Luise Gindlstrasser (was involved until the end of 2023) and Sascha Westphal, on January 26, 2024.
The musical BUCKET LIST reflects on human memory mechanisms and questions artificial interventions in these mechanisms. The evening unfolds like gaps in the memory of a man for whom nothing seems the same after October 7, 2023.
BUCKET LIST premiered on December 9, 2023 at the Schaubühne Berlin in co-production with Théâtre de Liège.
Link to the complete jury’s statement.
Link to tickets & dates at the Schaubühne Berlin.
30.01.2024
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay is part of FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS Campaign
The FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS initiative shines a spotlight on some of the most influential German talent currently working in the industry, representing just some of the many dynamic “faces” of German filmmaking today. Since its first edition, the annual campaign has established itself as a platform to give German film talent international visibility and draw the attention of the global film industry to some of the country’s most sensational newcomers and professionals.
The faces of the 2024 FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS – THE FILMMAKERS campaign are:
Jan Bülow (DIE UNIVERSELLE THEORIE, LINDENBERG, KAFKA), actor
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay (ORAY, LOVE, GERMAN MARK AND DEATH), writer, director, producer
Banafshe Hourmazdi (NO HARD FEELINGS, LOVING HER, NO BEAST SO FIERCE), actor
Moritz Müller-Preißer (WIR SIND DATEN, HAEBERLI, GOTTES ANDERER PLAN), screenwriter and director
Mona Cathleen Otterbach (FRANKY FIVE STAR, MILK TEETH), production designer
Eva Trobisch (ALLES GUTE, IVO), screenwriter and director
Soleen Yusef (SAM A SAXON, DEUTSCHLAND 89, WINNERS), screenplay and director
26.01.2024
arte TV Premiere for Roman Wegera’s WHEREVER PARADISE IS
Roman Wegera’s short film WHEREVER PARADISE IS has its TV premiere on January 27, 2024 on ARTE and can be streamed afterwards in the arte-Mediathek.
WHEREVER PARADISE IS
Script by: Roman Wegera
Directed by: Roman Wegera
DE, 28 min., 2023
For Anja – a Russian-German teenager, – Germany is nothing more than a gray backdrop. During the day she skips the school and makes up gangster scenes with her little brother, at night she eats sausage or challenges her boyfriend’s courage. Anja dreams of leaving for America one day, meanwhile the Russian-Ukrainian war in is also making itself noticeable in Germany.
As one day her mother receives a phone call, Anja decides to take care of herself and her younger brother.
15.12.2023
15.12.2023: Ran Chai Bar-zvi stages BLUTBUCH by Kim de L’Horizon at Staatstheater Hannover
BLUTBUCH by Kim de L’Horizon
Director, set & video designer: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
What happens to a person when their tyrannical grandmother dies? Does a formative piece of a family history become buried or is one suddenly empowered to rewrite their own biography, to reinvent their identity, even their mother tongue?
Director and costume & set designer Ran Chai Bar-zvi stages Kim de L’Horizon’s cult novel BLUTBUCH (German premiere), exploring new narrative forms and switching between genres.
The premiere will take place on December 15, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets & more information
21.11.2023
9.12.2023: Premiere BUCKET LIST by Yael Ronen & Shlomi Shaban at Schaubühne Berlin
BUCKET LIST by Yael Ronen & Shlomi Shaban
Directed by: Yael Ronen
In BUCKET LIST, Yael Ronen reflects on memory mechanisms: What would we to keep in memory before kicking the bucket? Can memories of unpleasant, painful and conflict-ridden events be readjusted with technological help? And if we start to artificially edit our personal memories, what does this step mean for the entire collective memory culture?
This musical marks Yael Ronen’s second collaboration with Israeli songwriter Shlomi Shaban. The duo impressed critics and audiences alike with their hit production SLIPPERY SLOPE at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin (invited to the 2022 Theatertreffen).
The premiere of BUCKET LIST is on December 9, 2023 at 8 p.m. at the Schaubühne Berlin.
Further dates are: 13 Dec., 14 Dec., 15 Dec., 16 Dec. 2023, at 8 p.m.
Tickets & info
10.10.2023
9.11.2023: Premiere MITLÄUFER by Noam Brusilovsky at Marstall/Bayerisches Staatstheater Munich
MITLÄUFER (Followers) from Noam Brusilovsky
Directed by: Noam Brusilovsky
Research & Text Assistance: Lotta Beckers
With this research project, author & director Noam Brusilovsky works for the first time at the Munich Residenztheater. MITLÄUFER (Followers) is a historical examination of the contradictory biographies of those who reached the top echelons of the theater due to close cooperation with the Nazi regime.
The play premieres on 9 November 2023 at 8:30 p.m.
Following dates & tickets
09.11.2023
7.11.2023: Michel-Tremblay Award for Rébecca Déraspe
Rébecca Déraspe winns this year’s prestigious Michel Tremblay Prize for Drama. Déraspe was awarded for her latest play LES GLACES, which had its premiere at Théâtre de La Bordée in co-production with Théâtre de La Manufacture in fall 2022.
“With a mixture of clarity and hope, anger and humour, Rébecca Déraspe presents a complex, committed and deeply human fiction about sexualized violence… One recognizes the undeniable talent, the great sensitivity and all the experience of the author in the harrowing monologues, the wonderful symbolic web that haunts the text, the dialogues of impeccable precision and the impeccably taut thread of the dramatic structure.” – from the jury’s statement
30.10.2023
IT’S BURNING by Erol Afşin at the 37th International Film Festival Braunschweig
Following its successful premiere at the 40th Munich Film Festival, Erol Afşin’s drama IT’S BURNING (ES BRENNT) is currently touring through festivals in Germany and Turkey. At the 37th Braunschweig International Film Festival, the debut will screen in the “New German Films“-category on November 7 and 11, both at 6:00 p.m.
Tickets available under this link.
IT’S BURNING
D, feature, 88 min., 2022
Directed & written by: Erol Afşin
Amal, Omar and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. In the playground, they meet a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. A court case is initiated. During the hearings, an incident occurs that will completely change the family’s life.
Based on a true story.
24.10.2023
THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES in competition at the Cottbus Film Festival
Ádám Czászi’s second feature film THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES celebrates its German premiere at the Cottbus Film Festival. The film, which bitterly portrays the exploitation of a Romani theater troupe, is running in the competition with two screenings: on November 10th, at 5:00 p.m. in the Stadthalle & on November 11th, at 4:00 p.m. in Weltspiegel (Saal 2).
Tickets & information
THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES
Directed by: Ádám Császi
Written by: Ádám Császi, Balázs Lengyel
HUN, 2022, 93 min.
23.10.2023
Erol Afşins drama IT’S BURNING winns Audience Award at the 3. Film Festival Oberschwaben
After the successful premiere at the 40th Munich Film Festival, Erol Afşin’s drama IT’S BURNING tours through festivals in Germany and Turkey.
At the 3rd Oberschwaben Film Festival, Afşin’s directorial debut wins the Audience Award.
IT’S BURNING (ES BRENNT)
DE, feature, 88 min., 2022
Written & directed by: Erol Afşin
Amal, Omar, and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. At the playground, they encounter a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. The case goes to court, but an incident during the hearing changes everything for the family.
Based on real events.
12.10.2023
23.10.2023: Ádám Czászi’s film will open the 7th International Festival of Romani Film
THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES
Directed by: Ádám Császi
Written by: Ádám Császi und Balázs Lengyel
Hungary, 2022, 93 min.
A white director is rehearsing a play with five marginalized Roma actors. His play is supposed to reflect on their true life stories of abuse, drug addiction, and crime. However, instead of portraying the depth of their experiences, the actors are being exploited and their pain is being capitalized.
THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES
23 October 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Screening & FAQ at Babylon Berlin
17.10.2023
20.10.2023: Film evening with Eliza Petkova, Goethe-Institut Kyoto
Eliza Petkova, Shirin Sabahi and Zora Rux are three female filmmakers from Berlin and the current fellows at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto. On October 20, at 4:00 p.m., they will show selected works from their cinematic oeuvre. Thus, Eliza Petkova will present her feature film ZHALEIKA (Director: Eliza Petkova, BG/DE, 92 min., 2016).
The artists will be available for direct exchange afterwards.
3 x Berlin
Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
Kyoto, Japan
18.09.2023
1.10.2023: Ran Chai Bar-zvi directs DAS GROẞE HEFT at Volkstheater München
Premiere DAS GROẞE HEFT by Ágota Kristóf
Directed by: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
at Volkstheater Munich
In search of his brother, a now grown-up twin reflects on their joint childhood in times of war, hunger and misery.
Ran Chai Bar-zvi directs for the first time at the Munich Volkstheater and incorporates into the narrative Ágota Kristóf’s two other books, “The Proof” and “The Third Lie”.
Premiere on October 1, 2023 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets & more information
30.08.2023
29.09.2023: Kate Tarker’s MONTAG – premiere at Staatstheater Karlsruhe
MONTAG
from Kate Tarker
Director: Lily Sykes
German by Cornelia Enger
German premiere on 29 September at 7:30 p.m.
Faith and Novella live in a small German town near an American military base. The two friends hide in Novella’s basement apartment and fantasize about an attack – probably fatal. Novella, a sex worker of Turkish descent, is disgusted by the contempt of her neighbors, and she is afraid of her ex-partner’s violent jealousy. Faith rebels against the hierarchies of the military. For seven sleepless days, they’ve been training, building barricades from the furniture and dancing until exhaustion to Beyoncé and club music.
A comedy about obcessions and a cheer for female friendship!
Further information and tickets
23.08.2023
23.09.2023: Premiere DAS KRAFTWERK from Calle Fuhr at Staatstheater Cottbus
DAS KRAFTWERK
A theater evening about coal, water and eternity
by Calle Fuhr, in cooperation with CORRECTIV
Director: Aram Tafreshian
Premiere was on 23 September 2023
Carla, a young journalist, returns to her hometown Cottbus. Shortly before his death, her late grandfather left her a folder with documents about the LEAG company, around Vattenfall, the Jänschwalde power plant, the Baltic Sea and the Gigawatt Factory. Carla’s research begins, and she encounters completely different characters: an activist whose home has already been dredged twice, a young man who is committed to LEAG’s green future. And the CEO of the company, who in turn has to ensure supply security in the event of a coal phase-out.
An interwoven story about the coal industry, based on exclusive research by the investigative journalistic collective CORRECTIV on the region’s water supply.
15.08.2023
22.09.2023: Broadcast EXZESS – A Techno Opera by Noam Brusilovsky & Tobias Purfürst
EXCESS: A Techno Opera
Libretto: Noam Brusilovsky
Composition: Tobias Purfürst
22 September, 7:00 p.m.
rbbKultur
Jessica and Brian, a tourist couple, visit Berlin’s most famous techno club. They are glad to have made it in, as not everyone is allowed inside the huge legendary industrial hall. Their plan: dance, take drugs, surrender to the sound. A few hours later, Jessica is found on the floor by club staff. The reason: intoxication with high a dosis of ecstasy. She passes away after a few hours.
The radiophonic techno opera EXCESS tells of dying in a club. In an uninterrupted techno set, the protagonist Jessica (Susanna Hurrell) sings her death aria. The tragedy is that Jessica is aware of her organs gradually failing but time cannot be flushed back. As in a classical opera, death becomes spectacular in this technoid epic.
18.09.2023
FAUST (HAB’ ICH NIE GELESEN) nominated for Prix Europa
The radio play FAUST (HAB’ ICH NIE GELESEN) by Noam Brusilovsky is nominated for the Prix Europa, category: Audio Fiction.
For naturalization in Germany, Israeli-born theater director and audio-play author Noam Brusilovsky needs a confirmation of his outstanding artistic achievements in Germany from his employer the ÖRR. In return, the employer demands that Brusilovsky spontaneously steps in for a colleague and stages Goethe’s “Faust” as a radio play in the shortest possible time. Brusilovsky, however, has never read the classic – THE German-language oevre – which in no way prevents him from getting involved in the deal!
FAUST (HAB’ ICH NIE GELESEN) by Noam Brusilovsky
Duration: 75 min.
With: Bibiana Beglau, Itay Tiran, Walter Kreye, Matthias Leja, Almut Henkel a. o.
Music: Tobias Purfürst
Director: the author
Production: SWR / Deutschlandfunk 2022
The award ceremony will take place on Fritag, October 27, 2023 at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin.
Accreditation & Information
19.09.2023
Eliza Petkova arrived in Kyoto
Over the next three months, Eliza Petkova will be staying in Artist Residency at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, where together with screenwriter and director Zora Rox she will be working on a joint project consisting of several short films. The results will be presented to the public in December in the presence of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany. The residency program is funded by the Goethe-Institut Japan.
01.09.2023
EL CONDE by Guillermo Calderón & Pablo Larrain wins the Golden Lion for Best Screenplay at Venice Film festival
Guillermo Calderón, one of Chile’s most prolific theater and film makers, has been awarded the Golden Lion for Best Screenplay for EL CONDE, co-written with Pablo Larrain and directed by Pablo Larrain. The film premiered to critical success and will be streaming on Netflix starting September 15th. Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larrain are frequent collaborators (EL CLUB, NERUDA, etc.) and Larrain’s production company fabula just produced Guillermo’s directing debut MAQUILLAME OTRA VEZ (available on NETFLIX).
EL CONDE
Chile, feature film, 110′
Production:Fabula (Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue)
Image: Guillermo Calderón © Sandra Then
02.05.2023
16.09.2023: les dramaturx to curate a symposium at Schauspielhaus Hamburg
CRUISING MYTHOLOGY searches for queer-feminist concepts in Greek mythology and makes an attempt in transferring them into today’s life practices through performances, installations and lectures. What can we learn about plants and animals from the adventure dyke Artemis? What does the six-armed Scylla tell us about polyamorous relationships? What does the song of the sirens reveal about male fears? Varios topics and theses related to antiquity will be examined for their usefulness for the city of tomorrow.
Symposium at Schauspielhaus Hamburg
16 – 23 September 2023
Tickets are availbale from ow on under this link (external)
22.08.2023
11.09.2023: Staged reading from Guillermo Calderón’s COLINA at Volkstheater Rostock
50 YEARS OF MILITARY COUP IN CHILE
50th anniversary of the death of Salvador Allende / 49th anniversary of the Chilean Exile Ensemble at the Volkstheater Rostock
11 September, at 8:00 p.m.
Patriotischer Weg 33
18057 Rostock
With this event, the Volkstheater Rostock commemorates the military coup in Chile and the death of Allende 50 years ago and honors the founding of the Chilean exile ensemble Teatro Lautaro at the house. Readings will include excerpts from Guillermo Calderón’s play COLINA (German translation by Franziska Muche).
More information and tickets under this link.
20.07.2023
PLANET B by Yael Ronen & Itai Reicher nominated for Friedrich Luft Prize
PLANET B from Yael Ronen & Itai Reicher has been nominated for this year’s Friedrich Luft Prize amongst other nine theater productions from the Berlin and Potsdam area (2022/23 season). PLANET B, directed by Yael Ronen, premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin on 6 June 2023 and has been acclaimed by critics accross Germany.
The Friedrich Luft Prize, named after the Berlin theater critic, has been awarded since 1992, and since 2021 jointly by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the Berliner Morgenpost. It honors the best Berlin or Potsdam theater performance and is endowed with 7500 euros. The winning play will be announced on 25 August 2023.
12.06.2023
20.07.2023: Premiere 7 MORTAL SINS with texts from Calle Fuhr & Lisa Wentz
7 MORTAL SINS
Texts from: Helena Adler, Uli Brée, Calle Fuhr, Felix Mitterer, Hubert Sauper, David Schalko, Johannes Schmidl and Lisa Wentz
Directed by: Gregor Bloéb
Shows on July 20 – August 12, 2023
Theater am Birkenberg, Telfs, AT
What is sin? What is virtue? There cannot be a right life amidst wrongs, can it?
The Tiroler Volksschauspiele have commissioned various playwrights to each rethink one sin. Lisa Wentz, who was recently awarded the 2023 Drama Prize by CAA Berlin, reimagines anger whereas Calle Fuhr explores the modern arrogance. In this way, seven short plays emerge between heaven and hell, dystopia and utopia, dance of death and lustful celebration of life at the same time.
Premiere is on July 20, at 8:00 p.m.
More information & tickets under this link (external content)
11.07.2023
MAKING IT UP by Guillermo Calderón is available on Netflix
MAKING IT UP is a story of Ana and Rita, two make-up artists who are completely broke. When the unpredictable Alex offers them a job, they just have to say yes – to the gig and to a big ol’ mess.
Guillermo Calderón’s flashy, electrifying directorial debut is now on Netflix.
10.07.2023
Production development funding for Eliza Petkova’s THE WORKER
Hessen Film & Media Fund 2023 has awarded Eliza Petkova’s new feature THE WORKER with a Grant for Production Development.
DER ARBEITER (THE WORKER)
Produced by: Fourmat Film
Direction + script: Eliza Petkova
D/BG, 90 min.
07.07.2023
SACD Prize for Upcoming Talent goes to Penda Diouf
Every June, the SACD Board of Directors honors established and young talents who have made their mark throughout the year, and awards prizes corresponding to the disciplines and repertoires of the SACD in France and Europe.
The Board of Directors, chaired by Anne Rambach, has decided to award 33 author:s again this year. The Upcoming-Talent Prize went to Penda Diouf.
12.06.2023
6.07.2023: Premiere SLIPPERY SLOPE. Almost a Musical, Metropoltheater Munich
„The five [Emre Aksızoğlu, Anastasia Gubareva, Riah Knight, Lindy Larsson, Vidina Popov] can all really belt out an excellent song, which they do, one timely and versatile Shlomi Shaban hit after another moving the action forward, to much applause, and ultimately even a standing ovation after the earworm finale. It’s a hell of a lot of fun.“ – Sandra Sarala, Exberliner
SLIPPERY SLOPE. Almost a musical
by Yael Ronen & Shlomi Shaban
Directed by: Philipp Moschitz
Premiere on July 6, at 7:30 p.m.
Metropoltheater Munich
A musician who has been canceled is now celebrating his comeback. He wants to save his sweetheart from a greedy producer. A promising newcomer launches her solo career and accuses her ex-partner of a power abuse. An editor stands up for the rights of the oppressed. And a young journalist aims to enveil the Truth. The good guys are the good guys and the bad guys are the bad guys.
But can it really be that simple? Who benefits most from which narrative – and whose narrative ultimately prevails? In this story, everyone uses everyone else, and the search for love and truth is also the aspiration for fame and power.
In German language, w/ songs in English.
Dates & tickets under this link (external content)
30.05.2023
27.06.2023: Premiere IT’S BURNING by Erol Afşin, Filmfest Munich
DE, feature movie, 88 min., 2022
Script & direction: Erol Afşin
Amal, Omar, and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. At the playground, they encounter a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. The case goes to court, but an incident during the hearing changes everything for the family.
Based on real events.
Further screenings & tickets under this link.
11.05.2023
18.06.2023: Premiere MINNA VON BARNHELM in Heidelberg, costumes + stage set: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Minna von Barnhelm
or the Soldiers’ Happiness
from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Directed by: Ronny Jakubaschk
Costume & stage design: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Premiere on 18 June at 8:30 p.m. in Dicker Turm, Heidelberg
As part of Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele festival
Tickets & information under this link (external)
02.05.2023
World premiere for Yael Ronen’s PLANET B at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
“In “Planet B”, Yael Ronen and her co-writer Itai Reicher have not solely made a drama out of the highly topical environmental theme, but rather spun a witty sci-fi comedy in the light, Ronenian twist and development style. […] Errors and confusions, in which edge and center, cause and effect, but above all all all social themes and discourses fly around in the most beautiful way and unleash truths that are stuck in hard, is what makes Ronen’s theater so bright, funny and extremely human.” – Doris Meierhenrich, Berliner Zeitung (the quote originally in German)
PLANET B
World premiere was on June 8
Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
Text: Yael Ronen & Itai Reicher
Directed by: Yael Ronen
A not-so-distant future: climate change has continued unabated, many species have already extincted, vast land areas are barely inhabitable… A race begins to see who deserves to survive. Welcome to the alien entertainment reality show, where humans compete with chicken, panda, ant, etc. for the repopulation of the Earth as the only surviving species!
Dates & tickets under this link (external)
05.06.2023
10.6.2023: Athena Farrokhzad invited to poesiefestival berlin
The 24th edition of the poesiefestival berlin will take place from June 9 to June 16, 2023 at Akademie der Künste on the Hanseatenweg.
Panel WRITING VIOLENCE on language of violence, w/ Athena Farrokzhad amongst others on Saturday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Panel WRITING MOTHERHOOD on describing existential questions of motherhood and its archetypes, w/ Athena Farrokzhad amongst others on Wednesday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m.
poesiefestival berlin is a project by Haus für Poesie in cooperation with Akademie der Künste and is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and by Deutscher Literaturfonds e.V. as part of the “Neustart Kultur” program of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Full festival program & tickets under this link (external)
24.04.2023
16.06.2023: Helene Weigel Award ceremony for Fritzi Wartenberg
This year’s Helene Weigel Theater Prize for outstanding artistic achievements goes to the emerging director Fritzi Wartenberg. The prize is awarded by the Berliner Ensemble ehere Fritzi Wartenberg has already staged two productions – Ella Hickson’s THE WRITER and ALIAS ANASTASIUS based on a text by Matter*Verse.
The award ceremony will take place on June 16 as part of the WORX-Werkschau, following the performance of THE WRITER (starts at 5:00 p.m.) at the Neues Haus.
Furthermore, Fritzi Wartenberg sets up a staged reading KANYE WEST ODER DIE VEGANEN FRIKADELLEN VON ALDI (text: Fritzi Wartenberg) at the Berliner Ensemble/Werkraum on Saturday, June 17 at 4:00 p.m.
The last production of ALIAS ANASTASIUS can be also seen there on June 17 at 6:00 p.m.
25.05.2023
9.06.2023: CAA award for Lisa Wentz, staged reading at Schaubühne Berlin
Lisa Wentz has been awarded the Contemporary Arts Alliance (CAA) Berlin Prize for Drama 2023.
The Contemporary Arts Alliance (CAA) Berlin is a platform for private commitment to the promotion of contemporary culture in Berlin. CAA Berlin awards a one-time scholarship to an emerging playwright in the Studio of the Schaubühne Berlin.
On 9th of June, at 7:30 p.m.: award ceremony and staged reading with ensemble members
Studio / Schaubühne Berlin
Tickets under this link (external)
07.06.2023
SILENT OBSERVERS by Eliza Petkova in postproduction
Eliza Petkova has finished shootings for hew new film SILENT OBSERVERS in Bulgaria. The project was supported by EURIMAGES and is now in the postproduction phase.
10.05.2023
7.06.2023: Tag XYZ – Lorenz Just’s book launch in Volksbühne Roter Salon
Tag XYZ is a text about the vicissitudes of political action and activism, about dreading collectives and yet sensing the urge to leave your own comfort zone, and about the dilation of your pupils in the dark.
Wolfram Lotz in conversation with Lorenz Just
On Wednesday, 7 June at 7:30 p.m. in Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin
05.06.2023
29.05.2023: Tina Satter’s debut REALITY airs on HBO
HBO Films’ REALITY debuts MONDAY, MAY 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The film will air on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. REALITY celebrated it’s premiere on 18 February 2023 to rave reviews at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
Written and directed by: Tina Satter
Based on Tina Satter’s play IS THIS A ROOM, 2019
Starring: Sydney Sweeney (as Reality), Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
10.05.2023
24.06.2023: Fritzi Wartenberg in conversation with Franka Frei on her new book
Franka Frei writes in her new book “Überfällig. Warum Verhütung auch Männersache ist.” (en. “Overdue. Why contraception is also a man’s business“) about pill policies, masculinity myths and a revolution that starts in the testicles.
Reading & talk with Franka Frei, Fritzi Wartenberg
On Saturday, 24 June at 8:15 p.m. in Werkraum of the Berliner Ensemble
16.05.2023
22.05.2023: US cinema release for Natalia Sinelnikova’s debut
Natalia Sinelnikova’s feature debut WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD had its world premiere at Berlin International Film Festival in 2022. It finally toured through over 20 international festivals.
It will preview at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg in Brooklyn on May 22 before opening at Manhattan’s IFC Center on May 26. The film will then screen at LA’s Lumiere Cinema on June 2, with more cities and dates to follow.
05.05.2023
„Ask, Mark Ve Ölüm – Love, Deutschmark, Death“ nominated for the German Film Award
The successful documentary film by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay and Cem Kayas has been nominated for the German Film Award in the category “Best Documentary Film”.
After winning the German Film Critics’ Award in February, this nomination is another great success for the film, which through the music scene of Turkish guest workers tells and passionately revives the often forgotten piece of German history.
11.04.2023
4.05.2023: DYKE DOGS SALON at schaubühne berlin
4 May 2023, 8:30 p.m.
DYKE DOGS SALON: »Vollversammlung/Prololesben«
A queer-lesbian cultural party by Lynn Takeo Musiol, Eva Tepest & guests
Tickets and information under this link
19.04.2023
30.04. + 1.05.2023: ANOUK & ADOFA from Marco Damghani is part of Autor:innentheatertage in Berlin
ANOUK & ADOFA from Marco Damghani will be on view on 30 April and 1 May as part of Autor:innentheatertage at Deutsches Theater Berlin. The play is a production of Schauspiel Leipzig and has been running to sold-out audiences ever since.
ANOUK & ADOFA
Written & directed by Marco Damghani
Marco Damghani tells sensitively and honestly the story of a young couple trying to fulfill their lives, goals and dreams, even though they keep coming up against social limits. But both are also struggling with their own inner demons and these struggles put pressure on the relationship.
On view on 30 April at 6:30 p.m. and
on 1 May at 4:00 p.m. and at 8:00 p.m.
will takes place on 1 May at 9:45 p.m. in the Box of Deutsches Theater.
11.04.2023
28.04.2023 Premiere: DIE REDAKTION from Calle Fuhr at Volkstheater Wien
Premiere on 28 April 2023, 7:30 p.m.
From Calle Fuhr, in cooperation with DOSSIER
Directed by: Calle Fuhr
With THE EDITORIAL Calle Fuhr has written a Hollywood-worthy thriller: we follow a team of journalists who uncover a major scandal. Based on true events around the journalist collective DOSSIER, Calle Fuhr leads us into the machinations of the environmentally destructive corporation (OMV), which uses taxpayers’ money to support corruption, washes its hands of the matter by subsidizing high cultural institutions, and undermines the freedom of press through targeted advertising policies and bullying.
19.04.2023
28.04.2023 Premiere: THE TROJAN WOMEN at Schauspiel Cologne, costume: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
THE TROJAN WOMEN, adapted from Euripides
In German
Direction: Lucia Bihler
Costume: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
For THE TROJAN WOMEN, director Lucia Bihler and her team search for a contemporary narrative method to make the ancient material about the three surviving women and their fate after the 10-year siege of Troy tangible in a sensual way. Thus, in the first part of the play, the audience becomes part of the Trojan women’s home on stage, before being able to observe the suffering of the characters from the safe distance of the auditorium.
Premiere on 28 April at 7:30 p.m.
More information & tickets unter this link.
16.02.2023
19.04.2023 DSE: HOUSE OF DANCE from Tina Satter (US) at the Schaubühne Berlin
Foto: Gianmarco Breadola
Having already opened the FIND Festival in 2022 with her production IS THIS A ROOM, Tina Satter will now direct at the Schaubühne for the first time. The German-language premiere of her play HOUSE OF DANCE goes deep into the heart of America, where the American Dream is still fighting for its life.
„I just wanna be ready for tryouts. I hate this town, and I am going to leave here and be a millionaire by the time I am 40.“
11.04.2023
14.04.2023: TV-series FEELINGS runs at 19th achtung berlin film festival
Director and screenwriter Sueheyla Schwenk shot four episodes of the coming-of-age mystery series FEELINGS, presented at Berlinale Series Market 2023, produced by Studio Zentral for ZDF.
16-year-old Alva has the feeling of being different and not belonging to the world around. After moving to the countryside, she meets Esma, who doesn’t care about what others think. FEELINGS portrays teenage self-doubt and the power of friendship, hope and love.
Screenings take place on:
Fr., 14.4. at 6:00 p.m. in Acud
Sa., 15.4. at 5:45 p.m. in Babylon
Tickets under this link
24.04.2023
13.04.2023: Calle Fuhr’s podcast KEIN KOMMENTAR is now online
Podcast KEIN KOMMENTAR
with Alina Schaller, Ashwien Sankholkar, Calle Fuhr
Since 2020, the journalists of the Austrian investigative magazine DOSSIER (including Ashwien Sankholkar) have been researching the OMV group and its former CEO Rainer Seele. There was hardly any critical reporting on the billion-dollar corporation before – because OMV is one of the biggest advertising partners in the Austrian advertising business and a major sponsor. However, it is not possible to advertise in the DOSSIER magazine due to it’s ad-free policy.
That’s why the research collective decides to embark on a high-risk investigation of the OMV’s shady businesses…
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music & Podbean.
16.02.2023
13.04.2023 Swiss Premiere of GRAND HORIZONS from Bess Wohl (US) at the stages in Bern
Translation: Lynn Takeo Musiol and Christian Tschirner
Directed by Roger Vontobel
“…an absolute theater must-see …” – Berliner Morgenpost
After the successful German premiere in December 2022 at the Schillertheater , the Swiss premiere at the Bühnen Bern now takes place.
Further dates in Berlin: Komödie am Kurfürstendamm at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz.
from March 10, 2023.
11.04.2023
6.04.2023: Premiere of Ádám Császi’s THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES
The film THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES by Ádám Császi will have its Hungarian premiere on 6 April 2023. It shows rehearsals for a play about Hungarian romani lead by an outlived white director at a fictional Berlin city theater.
The world premiere of the film was in November 2022 at the Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn.
22.03.2023
1.04.2023 Premiere: MEISTER RÖCKLE by les dramaturx at Theater Magdeburg
MEISTER ROECKLE
A fairy tale based on Karl Marx
After bitter fields, it is now les dramaturx‘ (Lynn Takeo Musiol and Christian Tschirner) second production at the Theater Magdeburg. Visitors can expect a political fairy tale about Karl Marx’s preliminary studies for Capital, retold and performed by the two authors.
Premiere: 1 April 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets & information under this link (external)
27.03.2023
26.03.2023: 20th Sofia Meetings Award for Eliza Petkova’s DISSONANCE
We congratulate Eliza Petkova on the 20th Sofia Meetings Award for her project in development DISSONANCE (BG). Eliza and her producer Veselka Kiryakova have been granted a script consultancy in the amount of 5.000 Euro with Steven Goldsmith, an Irish-American script doctor and writer.
22.03.2023
9.03.2023 Cinema release for Eliza Petkova’s MAYOR, SHEPHERD, WIDOW, DRAGON
DE / BG, 2020, 97 min, OV with German subs
A film by Eliza Petkova
According to the legend, a dragon named Gincho is responsible for the disappearance of young women in the Bulgarian mountain village of Pirin. Almost only old people still live there without a doctor or priest, whose many empty houses are gradually being swallowed up by nature. But the committed mayor has not given up faith in the future. He wants to turn Pirin into a tourist attraction – and is trying to find a girlfriend on the Internet along the way. (Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2022)
German cinema release: 9 March 2023 at 8 p.m., in presence of the movie team at
Kino Krokodil, Greifenhagener Str. 32, 10437 Berlin.
Further details & tickets under this link (external)
21.03.2023
Süheyla Schwenk is co-director of a new series for Disney+
Disney+ has announced a new in-house production. HABIBI BABA BOOM, written by Sascha Vredenburg and Omar El-Saeidi, is produced by Bantry Bay.
16.02.2023
10.03.2023 premiere: ALIAS ANASTASIUS (AT) by Selma Matter and Marie Lucienne Verse directed by Fritzi Wartenberg
ICH KANN ALLES FÜR DICH SEIN will be Fritzi Wartenberg’s second work at the Berliner Ensemble. After her successful production of THE WRITER by Ella Hickson, she seeks a historical approach to the themes of gender, feminism and representation in her new directorial work.
16.02.2023
02.03.2023 World premiere: BAVARIA from Guillermo Calderón in Marstall at Residenztheater München
After works in NYC, Basel and Stockholm, a new work by Guillermo Calderón appears. A piece about Chile and Germany, new beginnings and colonialism, folk songs and missionary work.
Director: Guillermo Calderón
22.02.2023
Award of the German Film Critics for the film „Ask, Mark Ve Ölüm – Liebe, D-Mark, Tod“
On the occasion of the Berlinale, the film by Cem Kaya and Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay was awarded the prizes for best documentary and best editing by the Association of German Film Critics on Sunday.
This continues the success story of the film, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2022 and won the Panorama Audience Award.
16.02.2023
FEELINGS – TV Series at Berlinale Showcase Up Next: Germany
Director and screenwriter Süheyla Schwenk has shot four episodes of the coming-of-age mystery series FEELINGS, which will be presented at the 2023 Berlinale Series Market, produced by Studio Zentral for funk on behalf of ZDF.
Süheyla Schwenk is currently shooting a series for Bantry Bay and is in preparation for a television film for degeto/ARD.
16.02.2023
18.02.2023 World premiere of Tina Satter’s debut film REALITY at the Berlinale
Tina Satter’s film is based on her successful play IS THIS A ROOM and will be screened at the Berlinale in the Panorama section.
IS THIS A ROOM was initially created as an Off-Broadway production. Due to its great success, the play then also ran on Broadway starting in the fall of 2021. Subsequently, the production made guest appearances at international festivals in Europe (including the Wiener Festwochen, FIND Festival/Schaubühne Berlin).
In parallel, Tina shot REALITY, starring Sydney Sweeney (pictured) and Josh Hamilton.
Young U.S. Air Force employee Reality Winner is suspected of whistleblowing. FBI agents first search her home, then begin a grueling interrogation.
16.02.2023
07.02.2023 Premiere MAQUÍLLAME OTRA VEZ – the new Film from Guillermo Calderón
The cinema comedy by Guillermo Calderón, produced by Juan and Pablo Larraín’s company Fabula, will celebrate its world premiere in Mexico City on February 07.
In this Mexican-Chilean co-production, Guillermo, who has written numerous film scripts, including for Pablo Larraín (NERUDA, EL CLUB), makes his debut as a film director.
01.02.2023
PISTEN by Penda Diouf awarded as AUDIO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
“In speaking of these deep, lingering wounds that colonialism and racism have inflicted, and how she speaks of them, Diouf does the only thing that can perhaps help heal trauma at least a little bit: She brings them out of the repressed, the concealed, the forgotten into our consciousness, and she does it in such a poetic and empathetic way that when we listen to them, they also deeply touch white people, descendants of the European colonial powers, and move them to think about the causes of these wounds and to relate to them.” – The jury’s statement on the selection of the 2022 Radio Play of the Year.
The award ceremony will take place on Friday, March 3, 2023, at the Funkhaus Köln.
Start: 6:30 pm, free admission,
Registration required at <koelner-kongress.de>.
PISTONS by Penda Diouf
dt. by Annette Bühler-Dietrich
Director: Christine Nagel
Production: NDR
length: 80 min
For the radio play and the jury’s detailed statement, please follow this link.
16.02.2023
23.02.2023 Dyke Dogs Salon from Lynn Takeo Musiol, Eva Tepest and guests
DYKE DOGS SALON is an event series curated by the eponymous collective consisting of Eva Tepest and Lynn Takeo Musiol. Together they have been writing, curating and performing since 2018.
Their maxim: Dyke is a riot. Dyke is tragic. Dyke is always inadequate.
Date: 23.02.2023, 19:30
Venue: Schaubühne Berlin and online
16.02.2023
24.02.2023 ICH BIN ALLES – ALS MIR DIE STADT GEHÖRTE with Magda Woitzuck, stage adaptation: Calle Fuhr and Charlotte Sprenger
The phenomenal podcast “SHIT HAPPENS – Memories of a Big Dealer” by Magda Woitzuck is brought to the stage by Calle Fuhr and Charlotte Sprenger in the districts of the Volkstheater.
The ex-drug dealer Andrea M. tells about her life as the biggest hashish dealer in Vienna in the 90s.
Direction: Charlotte Sprenger
You can listen to the podcast in the SWR Mediathek.
16.02.2023
06.01.2023 Eliza Petkova selected for Villa Kamogawa Residency in Kyoto, Japan
Congratulations to Eliza Petkova and her co-writer Zora Rux, who have been awarded a three-month residency at the beautiful Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan to work on their new project development.
16.02.2023
Start of filming for Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s new film HYSTERIA
After Mehmet’s stirring film debut ORAY, with which he won the BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD at the Berlinale 2019, among others, the shooting of his new film HYSTERIA is about to begin.
Screenplay and direction: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Production: filmfaust Cologne