New Drama

Neue Dramatik © Iko Freese/DRAMA

Since the start of the 90s a generation of authors has developed, which has formatively characterised the genre of new German dramatic art. From the classical drama text to collectively compiled stage adaptations, these pages are a collection of authors and plays selected by a jury of experts covering a period from 1999/2000 onwards.  

Magazine

Wolfram Höll's “Und dann”, Schauspiel Leipzig © Rolf Arnold

Plays of the Season 2013/14
The Question of Authorship

It was above all linguistically and formally experimental texts that made for surprises the  theatre season 2013/2014. [more …]
Award ceremony of the Mülheim Theatre Festival 2014: Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel / Rimini Protocol, Wolfram Höll and Milena Baisch with Dagmar Mühlenfeld, Lord Mayor of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr Photo: Michael Kneffel

Mülheim Theatre Festival 2014
Authors Remain Centre Stage

Criticism of young authors has recently been booming. Not so at the Mülheim Theatre Festival. At this year’s competition for the Dramatist and Children’s Play Prizes, the debutants came out on top. [more …]
Royal Exchenge Theatre Production: „There Has Possibly Been an Incident“, directed by Sam Pritchard. © Jonathan Keenan © Jonathan Keenan

The Change in the Concept of the Author
Play Development versus Drama?

The concept of the author has evolved considerably in recent years. Even the Play Market at the Berlin Theatre Meeting has been re-oriented. [more …]
Marius von Mayernburg; © Katharina Birus © Katharina Birus

Playwrights
New Scope – The Concept of Writer-in-Residence at Theatres

The German-speaking theatre has been increasingly integrating playwrights into specific theatres. The concept of the writer-in-residence has been greatly expanded. [more …]
Katja Brunner „Von den Beinen zu kurz” (Too Short in the Legs), Hanover Schauspiel, awarded with Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 2013; © Katrin Ribbe © Katrin Ribbe

Mülheim Theatre Festival 2013
Networked Plays

Festivals have their own dynamics. This is also true of the Mülheim Theatre Festival, which has in recent years spun an ever finer web of cooperation. [more …]
Moritz Rinke „Wir lieben und wir wissen nichts” (i.e., We Love and We Know Nothing), premiere at Schauspiel Frankfurt © Birgit Hupfeld

Plays of the 2012/2013 Season
A good vintage

The 2012/2013 season surprised with a variety of outstanding plays and was also otherwise full of eye-openers. [more …]