52nd Theatertreffen 2015 in Berlin
What is Theatertreffen?
As Rivka Jacobson put it "every year, a seven-member jury zips across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, taking in scads of th...
In conversation with Susanne Kennedy
(A summary of Q&A held with the Theatertreffen 20 visitors)
Susanne Kennedy is a leading figure in European theatre. Still young at just thirty...
Nora Amin in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Nora Amin, an Egyptian theatre director, performer, chorographer, and theatre educator. In 2000 she founded Lamusica Independent Theatre Group in Cair...
In conversation with Ivan Panteleev
Ivan Panteleev’s production of Waiting For Godot* is among the 10 ‘most remarkable’ 2014 productions and fittingly has been awarded the Theatertreffen...
Face to face with John von Düffel: German theatre and adaptation of novels for the stage
John von Düffel is a successful novelist, dramaturg and Professor of dramatic writing.
Over the past two decades John von Düffel has offered a myriad...
Waiting for Answers: In conversation with Samuel Finzi and Wolfram Koch
Samuel Finzi and Wolfram Koch recently featured alongside one another as Vladimir and Estragon, the troubled twosome at the heart of Beckett’s Waiting...
Warum läuft Herr R. Amok (Why Does Mr R Run Amok?)
Susanne Kennedy’s production resembles a sadistic human experiment – just as sadistic towards its characters as the petit bourgeois conditions which t...
Warten auf Godot (Waiting for Godot)
A spotlight flits across a light-coloured width of material on Mark Lammert’s set, which contracts as if to form the hub of the world, disappearing in...
John Gabriel Borkman
In the interpretation of Karin Henkel and designer Katrin Nottrodt, the realms of upstairs and downstairs, described by Ibsen as strictly separated li...
die unverheiratete (the unmarried)
Three women, three generations, an unresolved past that stinks of betrayal and blind obedience: “the unmarried” connects April 1945 with the present. ...