German Theater Abroad
German Theater Abroad (GTA) is a project that has been promoting international theater festivals, productions and staged readings of contemporary drama and the like since 1996. a. produced in New York, Düsseldorf and Berlin. The projects experiment with new theatrical forms of events that closely involve the audience in the events.
history
German Theater Abroad was founded in 1996 by Ronald Marx, Christian Kahrmann and Jarreth Merz in New York. In 1998, the subsidiary German Theater Abroad eV (GTA eV) was founded in Berlin. In the same year, GTA organized the New German Voices festival in the Cherry Lane Theater in New York, which presented the texts of seven German authors in staged readings. The festival was among others in collaboration with the 1999, 2004 and 2006 Labyrinth Theater Company of Philip Seymour Hoffman continued.
In 2000, the play "Suzuki" by Alexei Schipenko, presented as a reading in the New German Voices 1998, was performed by German and American actors in New York City.
In 2001 GTA produced the Playstation festival for new German drama in collaboration with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . In the same year GTA began the scenic reading series Tisch und Werk in Berlin, in which actors (including Nicolette Krebitz , Hans-Michael Rehberg , Burghart Klaußner ) regularly presented contemporary drama, for example by Albert Ostermaier and Roland Schimmelpfennig .
In 2003 GTA organized the Red Eye Series 01 festival for young American drama at the FFT in Düsseldorf, which was continued in 2004.
In 2006 GTA presented the New York City Theater project at the HERE Arts Center in New York with productions of the plays Die Frau von alten by Roland Schimmelpfennig and a slipped disc by Ingrid Lausund, the Festival New German Voices and an international symposium entitled The Theater We Want! .
In 2007, for the 50th anniversary of the House of World Cultures , GTA initiated a site-specific reading series with new American drama under the title Roof of Great Promise . In the same year the theater project Road Theater USA took place. On a six-week trip from New York to Los Angeles, Roland Schimmelpfennig's commissioned work Start Up was presented at different locations in the so-called flyover states . The project documented by ZDF came to an end in 2008 with the guest performance Coming Home in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele .
In 2008 GTA presented the German-American theater festival Gimme Shelter in coproduction with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .