German amateur theater award
The German amateur theater award “amarena” is an award from the Federation of German Amateur Theater (BDAT), with which outstanding achievements in the field of amateur theater are recognized. The prize is awarded every two years and is endowed with 10,000 euros. Funding is provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and other sponsors.
The prize is awarded in five categories: drama , children's and youth theater , senior theater and two changing categories such as B. Comedy, dialect, overall work, open theater forms, open air etc.
The following award ceremonies have taken place so far:
September 18, 2010 // Berlin
September 8, 2012 // Rudolstadt (Thuringia)
September 13, 2014 // Ransbach-Baumbach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
September 24, 2016 // Offenbach am Main
September 29, 2018 // Leipzig
Selection process
All German amateur theaters are eligible to participate, regardless of their membership in the BDAT. 189 productions applied for the 2018 award ceremony. From all the applications received, a board of trustees first selects three productions for each category that are nominated for the award. A second jury (the “Prize Jury”) then selects the respective award winner from among the nominees.
Prize winners 2018
The first award was given on September 18, 2010 in Berlin by the President of the BDAT Norbert Radermacher and Gitta Connemann MdB, Chairwoman of the Enquête Commission of the German Bundestag “Culture in Germany” from 2003 to 2007.
The 2018 winners were:
- Acting division: The stage - the theater of the TU Dresden : “Burning Walls and Urgent Calls” by Mathias Kammerer and ensemble, director: Mathias Kammerer
- Children's and youth theater division: Die SCHOTTE , Erfurt: “Tschick” by Robert Koall based on Wolfgang Herrndorf, director: Matthias Thieme
- Senior theater division: Senior theater in the old town (SeTA) , Düsseldorf: “Peer Gynt” by Henrik Ibsen, director: Kathrin Sievers
- Open theater division: Deutschordensmuseum Bad Mergentheim gGmbH : “Odyssey of Life”, play development based on Homer's Odyssey, director: Florian Brand
- Overall work: Theater-Club Kattendorf (Schleswig-Holstein)
A special “Nah Dran! - A prize for democracy theater “ was given to" Wilhelm Tell - attempts by stellwerk weimar, directed by Stephan Mahn "and to" KRG. - A home view of the Piccolo youth club with texts by Janne Teller, Falk Richter and ensemble members, director: Matthias Heine, choreography : Zaida Ballesteros Parejo "awarded.
2010 (Berlin)
- Drama: The Suicide (Erdmann), Steinhaus Theater Bautzen
- Music and dance theater: entanglements ( after Dostojewski), Leipziger Tanztheater Juniorcompany der Elderen
- Children's and youth theater: The grids are silent (in-house production), piccolo theater staging youth club , Cottbus
- Senior theater: The petty bourgeois wedding (Brecht), senior theater in the old town (SETA), Düsseldorf
- Open-air theater: Vanity Fair (Martin / Thackeray), Coesfeld open-air theater
- Life's work: Renate Lichnok
2012 (Rudolstadt)
- Music, dance and movement theater: The Little Prince - Maly Ksiaze (in-house production based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), SpinaTheater / Young Ensemble Solingen
- Drama: Romeo and Juliet (drama by William Shakespeare), DIE SCHOTTE, Erfurt www.theater-die-schotte.de
- Senior theater: Ká síra diyá - grandparents tell the story of a journey (based on Mike Kenny's “The boy with the suitcase”), Consol Theater Gelsenkirchen www.consoltheater.de
- Newer / current forms of theater: Elsa - I am not allowed to speak (in-house production by Annette Müller), Theater im Gewölbe in cooperation with Offenburg schools
- Comedy: Homage to LORIOT (in-house production with texts by Vicco von Bülow), TOB (Theater Oberschwaben-Bodensee)
2014 (Ransbach-Baumbach)
- Play : " Leonce and Lena" by Georg Büchner, Stellwerk - the young theater Weimar (Thuringia)
- Children's and / or youth theater: 90/60/90 Rollenscheiß, JugendtheaterBüro Berlin
- Senior theater : Bertha, die at last, Theater of Experiences (Berlin) - Hospice Schöneberg-Steglitz
- Dialect and folk theater: The Swabian Tartüff, Das Glasperlenspiel in Asperg
- Open theater forms: 99 percent, spinaTheater - young ensemble solingen
2016 (Offenbach a. M.)
- Drama: The (Self) Natural, Cammerspiele Leipzig
- Children's and youth theater: "TOUCH DOWN", Piccolo Theater Cottbus
- Senior theater : “The visit of the old lady”, Theater Uhu, Bonn
- Music, dance or movement theater: “I am. But I haven't yet. ”, Leipziger Tanztheater Juniorcompany der Older
- Open theater forms: "walking in between", HEYOKA-THEATER, Ulm
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BDAT press release: "Five theater ensembles awarded - Lifetime Achievement Award for Renate Lichnok" from September 22, 2010, accessed on August 12, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
