European Theater Convention

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The European Theater Convention (ETC) is a European theater association founded in 1988 with headquarters in Berlin .

The ETC is funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union . As a network of public theaters in Europe, it has 36 member theaters and 2 honorary members (as of January 2020). The ETC organizes projects that promote European theater as a platform for dialogue, democracy and interaction and offers the possibility of international networking for theater professionals.

Projects

The four-year program "ENGAGE - Empowering today's audience through challenging theater" of the ETC focuses on the topics of participatory theater, youth theater and theater in the digital age. In addition, every year the ETC organizes conferences on plural topics for theater professionals and offers financial and organizational support for an international artistic exchange.

One project is the artistic cooperation Young Europe, in which ETC member theaters stage new theater texts on the subject of identity and integration for a young and international audience. In 2015, Young Europe was recognized by the EU as a “European Success Story”. Furthermore, the Nadia project funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation should be mentioned , an international theater project in which the reasons for the radicalization of young people in Europe were investigated with artistic means and in exchange with young people.

Between 2016 and 2018, the ETC researched the future of theater in the digital age with the project "European Theater Lab: Drama goes digital" and thus won the Pearle award "Spotlight on Heritage in Culture and the Arts". Another ETC project was "The Art of Aging" in which the challenges of a demographically changing society were highlighted in four productions.

Member theater (as of 1/2020)

  • Albania: National Theater of Albania (Tirana)
  • Belgium: Théâtre de Liège
  • Bulgaria: Theater and Music Center Kardjali (Kardjali)
  • Germany: Deutsches Theater (Berlin) , State Theater Braunschweig , Dresden State Theater , Theater Dortmund , theater and orchestra Heidelberg, Baden State Theater Karlsruhe
  • France: CDN Nancy Lorraine, La Manufacture (Nancy)
  • Georgia: Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theater (Tbilisi), Lepl Kutaisi Lado Meskhishvili Professional State Drama Theater (Kutaisi)
  • Great Britain: Belarus Free Theater (London)
  • Italy: Fondazione del Teatro Stabile di Torino (Turin), Fondazione Teatro Due (Parma), Teatro Koreja (Lecce)
  • Croatia: Croatian National Theater (Zagreb)
  • Luxembourg: Escher Theater (Esch-sur-Alzette), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg - Le Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg (Luxembourg City)
  • Netherlands: De Toneelmakerij (Amsterdam)
  • Norway:  Det Norske Teatret (Oslo)
  • Austria: Landestheater Linz , Schauspielhaus Graz
  • Portugal: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbon)
  • Romania: Teatrul National Marin Sorescu (Craiova), Teatrul National Timisoara, "Alexandru Davila" Theater (Pitești)
  • Slovakia: Slovak National Drama Theater (Bratislava)
  • Slovenia: Slovensko Narodno Gledališče Nova Gorica
  • Czech Republic: Národní divadlo / National Theater (Prague)
  • Hungary: Pesti Magyar Színház (Budapest), Weöres Sándor Színház (Szombathely)
  • Ukraine: Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theater (Kiev), Dakh Theater - Center of Contemporary Arts (Kiev), TEO Theatrical Space (Odessa)
  • Cyprus: Cyprus theater Organization (Cyprus)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ European Theater Convention: ENGAGE - Empowering today's audiences through challenging theater. November 4, 2014, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Web team: Securing the future of European theater. December 14, 2016, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ NADIA - project at ETC. Retrieved December 5, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Home. Retrieved December 5, 2019 (UK English).
  5. ↑ Default: Pearle * 2018 Awards Winners Announced! Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Home page. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .