| Authors | Plays | Premiere |
| Roland Schimmelpfennig | "Der goldene Drache" | 5.09.2009, Burgtheater Vienna (Akademietheater) Director: Roland Schimmelpfennig |
| Dea Loher | "Diebe" | 15.01.2010, Deutsches Theater Berlin Director: Andreas Kriegenburg |
| Fritz Kater | "we are blood" | 5.05.2010, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin Director: Armin Petras |
| Dirk Laucke | "Für alle reicht es nicht" | 30.10.2009, Staatsschauspiel Dresden Director: Sandra Strunz |
| René Pollesch | "Ich schau dir in die Augen, gesellschaftlicher Verblendungszusammenhang" | 13.01.2010, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin Director: René Pollesch |
| Oliver Kluck | "Das Prinzip Meese" | 8.02.2010, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin (Gorki Studio) Director: Antú Romero Nunes |
| Nis-Momme Stockmann | "Kein Schiff wird kommen" | 19.02.2010 Staatstheater Stuttgart (Theater im Depot) Director: Annette Pullen |
| Jan Neumann | "Fundament" | 27.11.2009, Staatstheater Stuttgart Director: Jan Neumann |
| Rebekka Kricheldorf | "Villa Dolorosa. Drei missratene Geburtstage" | 15.10.2009, Theaterhaus Jena Director: Markus Heinzelmann |
| Juliane Kann | "Bleib mein schlagendes Herz" | 13.03.2010, Schauspiel Frankfurt Director: Daniela Löffner |
Since 1999/2000 the Goethe-Institut theatre library has provided a summary of each season's major new plays. Details given include a brief synopsis of the play and short biography of the author, a list of works and information on the cast, premiere and translations of the work, providing interested parties abroad with an insight into what's currently going on in German theatre.
For easy access this information is also supplied in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian.
The plays are selected by an expert jury.
