German Academy of Performing Arts
The German Academy of Performing Arts eV is a representative academy founded in 1956 with headquarters in Bensheim . Its around 360 members come from the fields of theater , film and radio . The events and activities of the academy are supported by foundations, the public sector such as television and radio stations and sponsors.
Organization and goals
The academy has the legal form of an association and pursues charitable purposes. The objectives are to represent the interests of the performing arts in public, to discuss the fundamentals and working conditions in the performing arts, to promote young talent, to comment on current issues in cultural life and to maintain relationships with institutions with similar interests at home and abroad.
The organs are the Presidium and the General Assembly. People from the German-speaking area who have distinguished themselves through their work in the fields of theater, film, radio, television or similar are accepted as members. Each academy member can submit proposals for the admission of new members with the support of two other members. Admission is made by secret ballot by the general assembly.
In March 2016, Hans-Jürgen Drescher was elected President of the Academy to succeed Hermann Beil . Vice-presidents are Bettina Reitz and Anselm Weber , treasurer Christoph Buggert . Günther Rühle is Honorary President.
history
Erwin Piscator , the first president of the academy, had designed it as a work and teaching academy, for which, however, there were no realizations. The academy is a purely representative academy and not a teaching academy.
The Experimenta weeks of experimental theater are closely linked to the history of the Academy . They took place in 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1975. After a long break, the 6th Experimenta followed in 1990 after the fall of the Wall with works by Heiner Müller and in 2001 the 7th Experimenta in the Frankfurt Theater am Turm .
The academy was initially located in Hamburg , and from 1962 to 2003 in Frankfurt am Main . In 2004, the city of Frankfurt canceled the grant to the academy, which it had made annually until then, due to its increasing budget constraints. The academy thereupon accepted an invitation from the city of Bensheim, where the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring and the sponsorship award for directing had already been awarded, and moved its headquarters there.
activities
Baden-Baden TV Film Festival
Together with the television broadcaster 3sat, the association is the sponsor of the annual Baden-Baden television film festival .
Gertrud Eysoldt Ring
In March each year, the association with the city of Bensheim and the Ringelband Foundation located there awards an actress or a theater actor with the Gertrud Eysoldt Ring for the best role design.
Advancement award for directing
The academy annually awards the Kurt Huebner Prize for Directing to a young theater director .
German Theater Prize Der Faust
The Academy is co-organizer of the German Theater Prize Der Faust . The basis for the award are suggestions from the theater. A jury of artistic reporters and the Committee for Artistic Issues of the German Stage Association, consisting of artistic directors, ballet directors, directors, dramaturges and cultural politicians, nominates three artists for each of the individual categories from the incoming proposals. A five-person jury consisting of members of the German Academy of Performing Arts will vote on these proposals. The prize is awarded in the following categories: directing drama, actor / actor drama, directing musical theater, singer / singer actor musical theater, choreography, actor / actor dance, directing children and youth theater, stage / costume.
Radio play of the month
Since 1977, the academy, in cooperation with ARD, has had an annually changing, three-member jury that awards a monthly radio play ( radio play of the month ) in order to, as it says in its own presentation, "ensure the endangered genre permanent attention and quality". Since 1987, the radio play of the year has been chosen from the twelve radio plays of the month. In 2017 a documentary entitled Seismography of the radio play was published.
Young Actors Week
To promote young theater makers, the Academy organized jointly with the city of Bensheim, the Sparkasse Cultural Foundation of Hesse-Thuringia, the state of Hesse and other supporters since 1996 the week of young actors (since 2019 week young actresses and actors ) in Bensheim. There are productions with young actors from German-speaking theaters, from the independent scene and from state drama schools. The selection of the performances is made by a jury, chaired by Dagmar Borrmann since 2019 . The Günther Rühle Prize, endowed with € 3000, has been awarded for the best acting performance since 2003 .
literature
- Erwin Piscator: Representation and poetry. Lecture for the German Academy of Performing Arts e. V. Hamburg, annual meeting in Bayreuth on August 16, 1959 . In: the same: The ABC of theater . Edited by Rudolf Wolff . Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1984, pp. 91-108.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Statutes of the German Academy of Performing Arts
- ↑ Christoph Buggert, German Academy of Performing Arts (ed.): Seismography of the radio play. 40 years of radio play of the month 1977–2017, 30 years of radio play of 1987–2017. Belleville Verlag Michael Farin, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-946875-21-5 , pp. 380 .