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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