Theatre

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Dance and Theater Stories: Panoptikum, the Festival for Children’s Theatre

In February 2012, the Seventh Festival for Children’s Theatre from Bavaria and Europe took place in Nuremberg.More ...
Philipp Löhle „supernova (wie gold entsteht)“, Uraufführung 2011, Mannheimer Nationaltheater; © Hans Jörg Michel

Mercantile Mentalities – The Financial Crisis and the Theater

Classics such as Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard are currently being performed particularly often. But when it comes to the crisis, theater makers are also looking for new ways of presenting a problem.More ...

The Alpha Animals of the Stage – Paths to Theater Directing in the German-Speaking World

“The task of the director consists in producing works for the stage”. This is the lapidary beginning of the German Theater Association’s job description of theatre director. More ...
“Onkel Wanja” by Anton Tschechow, director: Jürgen Gosch, (Deutsches Theater Berlin 2008); © Iko Freese/DRAMA

Heating Up and Accelerating – How Theater Photography Has Changed

The theater has changed and so has theater photography. The perception of reality as under construction has become a defining characteristic.More ...
The chorus; photo: David Graeter

The Train Station, the Citizens, and the Protest: Theatre on the Streets

In Stuttgart, the citizens are protesting. The theatre director Volker Lösch foresaw the conflict, put it on stage and is now energetically putting his oar in.More ...
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Explorations of the Alien – the 8th Politics in Independent Theater Festival in Dresden

The 8th Politics in Independent Theater Festival is taking place in Dresden from October 27 to November 6, 2011.More ...

Theatre in Germany: Children and Young People

A brief Overview of Plays for Children and Young People

Languages on Stage

Learning German by playing theatre in school: a project of the Goethe-Institutes in South-Western Europe

Theatre in Germany

Articles and Links on Selected Topics