Free Workshop Theater Cologne
The Freie Werkstatt Theater Köln e. V. (FWT) is operated in a non-profit manner. It is funded by the city of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The Freie Werkstatt Theater Köln was founded in 1977 as part of the nationwide model experiment for artists and students. Since 1995, it has had a redesigned theater in Cologne's Südstadt , in a listed building. Since then, the FWT has two venues, two foyers, rehearsal, office and workshop rooms on five floors.
Elderly theater division
Since 1979, the FWT has been the first theater in the Federal Republic of Germany to develop theater pieces with its own old-age theater ensemble that reflect the life and contemporary history of those involved, address the retirement age and life as an elderly person today.
Artistic Director
Until 2012 the theater was directed by Dieter Scholz, co-founder of the FWT, and Ingrid Berzau. After a good three decades, they were replaced by Inken Kautter and Gerhard Seidel. Gerhard Seidel has headed the FWT alone since the 2015/16 season. Dieter Scholz received the Federal Cross of Merit in 1995 and the Cologne Honorary Theater Prize in 2007. Ingrid Berzau was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2010 for her special commitment as artistic director of the FWT.
Guest directors
Roland Bertschi, Folke Brabant, Rolf Johannsmeier, Johannes Kaetzler , Kay Link .
effect
The theater has made a name for itself primarily through its adaptations and dramatizations of literature as well as through unconventionally staged classics. For its concept, the FWT was the first theater to receive the funding award for independent theaters of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was awarded for the first time in 1990.
Prices
- Awarded the Cologne Theater Prize 2008: the FWT first dramatization "The Raging of the Whole World"
- FWT Altentheater Main Prize Winner of the Otto Mühlschlegel Prize "Future Age" 2008 from the Robert Bosch Foundation
- In December 2007 Dieter Scholz received the Cologne Prize of Honor
- FWT-Altentheater awarded as a future project within the framework of the Robert Jungk Prize 2007
- Prize "Transnational Commitment for Seniors" 1999
- Sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1992 for "The Big Book"
- Sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1990 for the overall artistic concept
- EXPRESS audience award 1990
Nominations
A total of 23 nominations for the Cologne Theater Prize:
- 2015 for mother tongue Mameloschn by Marianna Salzmann, production and equipment by Kay Link
- 2013 for lock up - forever (WP) A critical inspection tour based on original interviews by Inken Kauter and Nico Dietrich. Production by Nico Dietrich
- 2008 The raging around the world Erstdramatisierung based on the novel by Maarten 't Hart for the FWT by John Kaetzler , staging John Kaetzler
- 2007 for Woyzeck³ , three fragments of drama by Georg Büchner, play version by Gerhard Seidel and Kay Link, production by Kay Link
- 2006 for Irrungen, Wirrungen , stage version by Gerhard Seidel based on the novel of the same name by Theodor Fontane, staged by Roland Bertschi
- 2004 for The Story of the Maid Zerlina by Hermann Broch, directed by Kay Link
further nominations: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003
Festivals
Organization of several festivals in the field of children and youth theater and in the field of adult theater, including the First World Altentheater Festival 1999 in Cologne's Gürzenich; Participation in the "Festival of Children's and Youth Theater NRW" 1985 to 1989, 1992; further festival participation, u. a. "Theaterzwang '90", "Spurensuche" 1992, 3rd Festival "Politics in Free Theater" 1996; "Theatrical Compulsion '98"; Participation in domestic and foreign festivals with the Altentheater (including Mâcon, Brussels, Vienna, London, Copenhagen)
Web links
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