Most bemerkenswert, according to the TT-Bloggers 3 Last night this year’s 3sat prize was awarded to Nicolas Stemann’s Faust I + II. Some said it was a… – Kyoko Iwaki • 21. Mai 2012
Theatric-O-Meter 0 We knew from the start that all ten of the productions invited to Theatertreffen were in some way „remarkable,“ that… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 21. Mai 2012
Theatertreffen Acting Fact-File 0 The 5,000€ Alfred-Kerr-Preis for the best performance at the Theatertreffen was announced today, decided and presented by actress Nina Hoss.… – Nadine Loës & Miriam Rose Sherwood • 20. Mai 2012
Platonov – The Premiere 0 The final Theatertreffen 2012 production to premiere is the black sheep of the family. All its other relatives have been… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 20. Mai 2012
Your Day at TT (17) 0 It’s not over just yet: we have one more action-packed day of Theatertreffen 2012 ahead of us before everything gets… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 20. Mai 2012
The Surtitle Situation 0 For several years now, surtitles have featured on a number of the chosen productions at the Theatertreffen – this year… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 19. Mai 2012
Gob Squad: Simon Will on time and collectives 2 Gob Squad’s Before Your Very Eyes combines two of the 2012 Theatertreffen’s “remarkable” aspects: time and collectives. More specifically, this transnational… – Adrian Anton • 18. Mai 2012
Watching the Clock 2 After the jury’s selection was announced, Theatertreffen director Yvonne Büdenhölzer named two defining features of this year’s choices: “Collective” and… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 17. Mai 2012
The TT-bloggers on Ein Volksfeind 0 Heiner Müller, Shakespeare, Ibsen’s patriarchal issues, East German comedy, Fukushima, Haribo, „the modern marriage,“ fascism, capitalism, communism, racism, and even the delay of… – Kyoko Iwaki • 17. Mai 2012
What Is Hate Radio? 0 Of the five Berlin-based productions invited to the Theatertreffen this year, Hate Radio is the only one I managed to… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 16. Mai 2012
How German Theatre responded to Fukushima 0 Question: When you walk into a supermarket to grab some groceries for dinner, what’s the most important information for you?… – Kyoko Iwaki • 16. Mai 2012
We Need To Talk About Markus 0 Last night saw the performance of the first-ever collective to be selected for the Theatertreffen’s Stückemarkt. Alongside the straight-up scripts… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 15. Mai 2012
Running the Faust-Marathon 0 Director Nicolas Stemann appeared on stage with a microphone at the start of nearly every section of his Faust I+II to… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 14. Mai 2012
Your Day at TT (11) 0 Today’s the day the winners of the three Stückemarkt prizes will be announced (10.30pm), following the staged reading of the… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 14. Mai 2012
The D-Word 0 I set myself a task during my year in Berlin to find the answer to a question that has been… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 13. Mai 2012
A failed attempt to sum up John Gabriel Borkman (3) 10 John Gabriel Borkman is the next-to-last play that Norwegian heavyweight playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote. Completed in 1896, it was first performed… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 12. Mai 2012
Stückemarkt Opening and Round One: Wolfram Höll/Pamela Carter 0 Last night was the launch of the Theatertreffen Stückemarkt, the play competition that takes pride of place in the festival’s… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 11. Mai 2012
"I'm an anorexic writer" – Interview with Pamela Carter 0 Pamela Carter is a UK playwright, director, and dramaturg. Her 2009 play Skåne was selected by this year’s TT Stückemarkt… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 10. Mai 2012
Dennis Kelly opens the Stückemarkt 11 He was planning to attend in person, but a last-minute change of plans meant that the British playwright Dennis Kelly… – TT-Redaktion 2012 • 10. Mai 2012
Questions from an Ausländer 0 I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. And that’s not poetry, just blatant fact. Here I am,… – Kyoko Iwaki • 9. Mai 2012
The Sleeping Room – Macbeth Audience Discussion 13 “I have lost all hope,” announced Stefan Merki as Macduff, three quarters of the way through Karin Henkel’s Macbeth. “Me… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 9. Mai 2012
Your Day at TT (4) 0 Having opened the festival with their Sarah Kane trilogy, the Münchner Kammerspiele continue to set the tone at this year’s… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 7. Mai 2012
Opening: Gesäubert/Gier/4.48 Psychose 4 Elongated paper lanterns suspended over the auditorium of the Berliner Festspiele’s main stage added a little visual interest to the… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 5. Mai 2012
Theatertreffentickettime 0 Showcasing the ten most outstanding plays of the past season’s German-speaking theatre, Theatertreffen 2012 is set to be bigger than… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 12. April 2012
My First Volksbühne 0 The Volksbühne Berlin raced ahead at this year’s Theatertreffen, producing 3 of the 10 best productions of the season and… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 22. März 2012
[Offstage: An ominous rumbling] … Theatertreffen is coming! 0 This is it. The almighty jury has travelled Germany, Austria and Switzerland searching for the “most remarkable” German-speaking theatre productions… – Miriam Rose Sherwood • 18. Februar 2012
We want you! 0 When we started Theatertreffen-Blog in 2009, developing the young arts‘ journalists section of the theatre festival Theatertreffen from a print… – nikola • 2. Dezember 2011
Live-Blog of the „Via Intolleranza II“ talkback 0 Tonight is the last official night of the Theatertreffen, and we are blogging up to the final minute, with the… – Cory Tamler • 23. Mai 2011
Via Intolleranza II – Soundcheck photos 0 30 minutes before Via Intolleranza II directed by Christoph Schlingensief starts, the actors are doing a soundcheck. I documented a… – Yehuda Swed • 23. Mai 2011
Art is Magic / It Cannot Succeed 0 The man himself finally appears 80 minutes into the 90-minute show, a projection on a curtain of a man standing… – Matt Cornish • 22. Mai 2011
Getting to know you: the Ballhaus and Heimathafen meet their audiences 2 The term „audience development“ is a new one in Germany – so new, there’s not even one of those wonderful… – Cory Tamler • 22. Mai 2011
Faust in Ethnic Drag? 0 C: The dog that plays Hitler’s German shepherd Blondie only plays himself. He is always universally a German shepherd. So… – Matt Cornish • 21. Mai 2011
All Horse 0 I had the honor of meeting and speaking with Halito (16 years old, Arabian), a horse who has often appeared… – Matt Cornish • 20. Mai 2011
Staging the gender imbalance: women in theater 4 From the theme of the Talentetreffen, to a women-in-directing exhibit, to yesterday’s „Feminism: Today a Dirty Word?“ discussion and more,… – Cory Tamler • 19. Mai 2011
An American Melodrama 0 After watching the Theatertreffen premiere of „Death of Salesman“, directed by Stefan Pucher, we’re sitting on the banks of the… – Leopold Lippert & Matt Cornish • 19. Mai 2011
Seitenrang links: Death of a Salesman 0 After every premiere, we ask one audience member four questions about their experience during the show. Tonight’s interviewee was Tomoya… – Cory Tamler • 18. Mai 2011
Nora: Hinter den Kulissen 1 This gallery shows the actors preparing for „Nora oder Ein Puppenhaus“, a play by Henrik Ibsen, direction and stage design by Herbert… – Yehuda Swed • 16. Mai 2011
Der Biberpelz: Before/After Shoots 1 This gallery shows the change that the actors go through, getting ready to perform Gerhart Hauptmann’s „Beaver Coat“, directed by… – Yehuda Swed • 16. Mai 2011
I saw the Lion King: American theater through German eyes 4 During Friday night’s discussion in HAU 2, a panel of performance artists, artistic directors, dancers, and cultural politicians debated the state… – Cory Tamler • 15. Mai 2011
Plagiacriticism: German Theatre through English Eyes 0 Our favorite guest blogger, Dr. Herr Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, is back – this time, with a critique of German theatre… – Cory Tamler • 13. Mai 2011
Ably and Competently 1 Don Carlos staged thoroughly as Don Carlos The men who hold the power stand at the back of the stage, literally behind… – Matt Cornish • 13. Mai 2011
Live-Blog zum Verrückten Blut 1 Live-Blog: a heated talkback with audience after the second performance of Verrücktes Blut (Mad Blood), Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Related: the tt-Blog Verrücktes… – Cory Tamler • 12. Mai 2011
She He Chat 0 In Testament, the performance group She She Pop brings their own fathers onstage. Through questions, through songs, and through re-enactments… – Cory Tamler & Matt Cornish • 12. Mai 2011
Konradin Kunze auf Skype 0 In foreign angst, Stückemarkt playwright Konradin Kunze sets a German sort-of journalist in a sort-of Arabic country, war-torn and rundown… – Cory Tamler • 12. Mai 2011
Booing, wtf? 1 Srsly, what’s up with booing? Just as at The Cherry Orchard’s Berlin premiere on Monday, Tuesday’s matinee had a few… – Florian Duijsens • 11. Mai 2011
A „post-migrant theatre“ lexicon 3 Self-titled „post-migrant“ theater Ballhaus Naunynstraße sits just a stone’s throw from the infamous Kottbusser Tor, birthplace of Döner Kebap and… – Cory Tamler • 11. Mai 2011
Margarita Broich’s exhibition – less is more 1 Yesterday I went to see Margarita Broich’s exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau. The exhibition presents 60 portraits of actors in the subject… – Yehuda Swed • 11. Mai 2011
Seitenrang links: Testament 0 After every premiere, we ask one audience member four questions about their experience during the show. For Testament, the 2011… – Cory Tamler • 11. Mai 2011
We just want to play 1 When you open your festival with a three-hour stream-of-consciousness deluge of text, tragedy, and water, what can possibly follow? The… – Cory Tamler • 9. Mai 2011
U – S – A! 0 A German, a Pole, a Romanian, and an Englishman sit down for a discussion in front of an audience in… – Matt Cornish • 9. Mai 2011
Write a Play, Practice Remembrance 0 I sat down for a short discussion with Polish playwright Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk after the staged reading of her play Burmistrz,… – Matt Cornish • 8. Mai 2011
Waters Rising 1 Elfriede Jelinek and Karin Beier explore natural, man-made disasters. Waves of light ripple across the ceiling of the Berliner Festspielhaus… – Matt Cornish • 8. Mai 2011
Water, water everywhere 0 The first of this year’s invited productions, Das Werk/Im Bus/Ein Sturz, is actually three shorter plays, written by Austrian playwright… – Cory Tamler • 7. Mai 2011
Plagiacriticism: Berlin’s ‚Theatre Meeting‘ Explained 1 Guttenberg introduces the Theatertreffen Dr. Herr Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the former German defense minister better known to some as Baron… – Matt Cornish • 6. Mai 2011
Saying No in a Yes-world 2 Retweet, share, rate, join, check in, like: we live in a time of constant affirmation. But what does all this… – Cory Tamler • 5. Mai 2011
The first press conference – live 1 Live-blogging (almost – there were some internet problems) the first press conference of Theatertreffen 2011. 12:56pm All are gathering, getting… – Matt Cornish • 3. Mai 2011
Video means „I can see“ 2 We’re all visual people, this is why we’d like to link to the new image video of Theatertreffen here. It… – nikola • 11. April 2011
The Future Archive of Theater 2 Over the course of the festival, I’ve been asking theater makers within and without tt10 about the state of German… – Shane Anderson • 25. Mai 2010
The Contract of the Audience 0 99 pages of text, 4 hours of theater, no scheduled intermissions. Sounds like a marathon, right? Sounds potentially aggressive, potentially… – Shane Anderson • 24. Mai 2010
Notes on Money and Science Fiction 0 Money – It Came From Outer Space! No, this is not a long lost Sun Ra record, it’s the working… – Shane Anderson • 22. Mai 2010