Germany

"Materiali per una tragedia tedesca" ("Materialien für eine deutsche Tragödie") by Antonio Tarantino has been chosen by Itz Berlin for three activities: two workshops and a play. The play will be presented with two previews: on 28th November at TATWERK Berlin/Kreuzberg, on 5th December at HAUSER Berlin/Neukoelln. The show will be present on 13th December VIERTE WELT Berlin/Kreuzberg, with Lea Barletti, Armin Dallapiccola, Elettra de Salvo, Carlo Loiudice, Lajos Talamonti, Archil Svimonishvili, Werner Waas, Barbara Weigel, Harald Wissler. One of the workshop will be with the classmates of Albert Einstein Gymnasium, Europaschule Berlin/Neukoelln and the other one with a group of ageings of Theater der Erfahrungen Berlin/Schoeneberg.

Theater an der Parkaue will produce the Mihaela Michailov text Copii Răi (in en. Bad kids, in de. Böse Kinder). The preview will be on 8th April 2016 and the national premiere will be on 10th April 2016. Other dates will be from 12sd to 14th April and June 16th, 17th 18th, 20th, 30th and July 1st. Böse Kinder Director Katrin Hentschel Translator Luisa Brandsdörfer Scenography  Jochen Hochfeld Music  Judith Retzlik Dramaturgy  Lina Zehelein Theater education  Irina-Simona Barca Actors Konstantin Bez, Joseph Konrad Bundschuh, Jonas Lauenstein, Thomas Pasieka, Nina-Maria Wyss This eleven year old girl won’t stay put. She plays with rubber-bands in class as the teacher speaks. She plays as if she were a free kid. She dreams of giraffes and cannot sit as still as her classmates do. Her mother has moved her to yet another school because she does not fit in. She’s not a leading student. Not a productive kid. Something of a misfit. The history teacher handcuffs her with the coloured elastic bands she’d been playing with during the lesson about democracy. The educator who teaches about democracy disciplines the little girl in an aggressive and authoritarian way, restricts and restrains her. Violence creeps over to her classmates. They emulate their teacher’s conduct and attack the girl. The class teams up to silence their classmate. The girls falls silent. She stops dreaming of anything. Tomorrow her mother will remove her to yet another school. But which school will allow her to remain herself: an unsubdued, free child? Bad Kids is a play about violence and submission. About imagination being reprimanded as it dares express itself. About rules and abuse which weigh down on the children’s freedom. Bad Kids is a one-woman-show in which the actress performs the several social parts each of us plays in this increasingly brutal society where school mirrors the dynamic of the adult world we live in. Bad Kids is a play about the education system in Romania, about the shapes violence can take when apparently harmless discipline-keeping turns into a collective threat and about the balance of power among teachers, parents and schoolchildren. For more information visit parkaue.de

Theater an der Parkaue produced the Mihaela Michailov text Copii Răi (in en. Bad kids, in de. Böse Kinder). Dates: June 16th, 17th 18th, 20th, 30th and July 1st. On the 20th of June, after the show, will be an aftertalk with the author Mihaela Michailov and the translator Luisa Brandsdörfer. From 21st to 23rd of June, Mihaela Michailov will lead a workshop with the students of Johann Gottfried Herder high school and University of Arts (UdK) Berlin. Böse Kinder Director Katrin Hentschel Translator Luisa Brandsdörfer Scenography  Jochen Hochfeld Music  Judith Retzlik Dramaturgy  Lina Zehelein Theater education  Irina-Simona Barca Actors Konstantin Bez, Joseph Konrad Bundschuh, Jonas Lauenstein, Thomas Pasieka, Nina-Maria Wyss This eleven year old girl won’t stay put. She plays with rubber-bands in class as the teacher speaks. She plays as if she were a free kid. She dreams of giraffes and cannot sit as still as her classmates do. Her mother has moved her to yet another school because she does not fit in. She’s not a leading student. Not a productive kid. Something of a misfit. The history teacher handcuffs her with the coloured elastic bands she’d been playing with during the lesson about democracy. The educator who teaches about democracy disciplines the little girl in an aggressive and authoritarian way, restricts and restrains her. Violence creeps over to her classmates. They emulate their teacher’s conduct and attack the girl. The class teams up to silence their classmate. The girls falls silent. She stops dreaming of anything. Tomorrow her mother will remove her to yet another school. But which school will allow her to remain herself: an unsubdued, free child? Bad Kids is a play about violence and submission. About imagination being reprimanded as it dares express itself. About rules and abuse which weigh down on the children’s freedom. Bad Kids is a one-woman-show in which the actress performs the several social parts each of us plays in this increasingly brutal society where school mirrors the dynamic of the adult world we live in. Bad Kids is a play about the education system in Romania, about the shapes violence can take when apparently harmless discipline-keeping turns into a collective threat and about the balance of power among teachers, parents and schoolchildren. For more information visit parkaue.de

On 13-14 October it’s time for Dramatische Republik, a new format, in collaboration with Theater im Aufbauhaus Kreuzberg. All over the two days, there will be presented 8 readings of Fabulamundi texts by Anne-Jelena Schulte, Elise Wilk, Kai Grehn, Kevin Rittberger, Roberto Scarpetti, Claudius Lunstedt, Werner Fritsch, Roman Sikora

In October there will start the rehearsal of Die hockenden by Miroslava Svolikova, directed by Rolf Kemnitzer and of Extremophile by Alexandra Badea with the direction of Irene Mattioli.

Das Wunder vom Wedding by German playwright Katharina Schlender will be on stage at TAK Kreuzberg / Probebühne from 7-9 December, from 14-16 and on 21 and 22 December. directed by Rolf Kemnitzer with Artur Albrecht, Ike Eickholz, Oksana Loidova, Jessica von Randow, Luise Schlender, Susanne Schultze-Jungheim, Klemens Schwabe, Erik Thews, Marianne Wagner, Harald Wissler u.a music by Harald Wissler, Denitsa Stoyanova, Punkband Panika costumes design by Viale Lucyna

On March 23-24 Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin will run a new edition of Dramatische Republik at  TAK Probebühne of  Theater im Aufbau Haus, with readings in German of two play by Gerard Watkins, who will be there for the occasion. During the first reading, the audience will be invited to read publically the text Der Turm (La tour) while for the second one, there will be a mise en espace of Identities directed by Paolo Costantini, young director hosted thanks to Erasmus Programme.

Fabulamundi - Call for Associate Researcher Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as Associate Researcher for our academic research project ‘Fabulamundi Workbook: Mapping Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation Practices in Europe’, led by Dr Margherita Laera, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This is a highly flexible part-time role which would suit a recently appointed Lecturer, post-doc, or PhD student based at any higher education institution in the EU, who could freely choose to spend their paid research time on this project. The position starts in June 2019 and ends in July 2020. The Associate Researcher will receive a small honorarium.

From 23-25 September, Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin will host the Mob-Pro Germany, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in contemporary society. The theme of this session will be Translation and it will see the involvement of international experts with the participation of eleven Fabulamundi playwrights: Katja Brunner (Germany), David Drabek (Czech Rep.), Azar Mortazavi (Austria), Artur Pałyga (Poland), Pier Lorenzo Pisano (Italy), Guillaume Poix (France), Gabriel Sandu (Romania), Fabrizio Sinisi (Italy), Robert Woelfl (Austria), Joan Yago (Spain), Petr Zelenka (Czech Rep.). During the MobPro, on September 23rd, there will also be presented a short version of Natura morta con attori by Fabrizio Sinisi and Nationalstrasse by Czech author Jaroslav Rudis  at Haus der Statistik.

The suitcase (Der Koffer) by playwright Malgorszata Sikorska Miszczuk will be on stage in Berlin on 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 June, in the frame of Dramatische Republik. The play is the story of a Frenchman named Michel Leleu left home and went to a museum. There he found his father’s suitcase, though his father hadn’t left it there. His remarkable story made the papers. In The Suitcase, an answering machine and a Narrator figure speak directly to the audience... More information are available here.