Impulse (theater festival)

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The international Impulse Theater Festival (until 2011 Theater Festival Impulse ) presents productions from the independent theater scene from Germany , Austria and Switzerland every year . It has become an important platform for independent, experimental theater. Later successful artists and groups such as René Pollesch or Rimini Protokoll were presented to a wider audience for the first time.

The festival has taken place in several cities in North Rhine-Westphalia since it was founded, and since 2015 in Düsseldorf , Cologne and Mülheim an der Ruhr . The festival was held biennially between 2009 and 2013, and has been held annually since 2015. The main program is now presented alternately in one of the partner cities, the other two remain present as satellites with context-specific special projects. In future, a new artistic director is to be appointed for all three editions. The organizer is the NRW culture secretariat.

The festival was founded in 1990 by Dietmar N. Schmidt and directed up to and including 2006, followed by Matthias von Hartz and Tom Stromberg (2007–2011) and Florian Malzacher (2013–2017). Haiko Pfost was appointed artistic director for the years 2018–2020 .

Alignment and Concept

As of 2018, the festival will have a changed profile, which the new artistic director is expected to present in spring 2018.

history

1990 to 2006

In 1990, the director of the NRW KULTURsekretariat in Wuppertal, Dietmar N. Schmidt, founded the Impulse theater festival as a theater meeting for the independent scene. Every year, outstanding theater productions by independent groups and theaters were presented together. Under Schmidt's direction until 2006, an expert jury selected the best theatrical work on the scene every year.

2007 to 2011

Between 2007 and 2011 the former theater director and cultural producer Tom Stromberg took over the artistic direction of the festival together with the director and festival organizer Matthias von Hartz. Every two years, the festival presented new aesthetic and content-related positions within German-speaking independent theater. In its time, the festival showed outstanding productions and co-productions from the German-speaking theater area. Among the innovations introduced by the two were the special guests , i. H. international theater productions, which supplemented the festival program apart from the competition, as well as a visitor program for international curators, through which the international marketing of the productions shown and the German scene was specifically promoted.

2012 to 2017

From 2013 to 2017 the festival took place with a different concept under the artistic direction of the curator and author Florian Malzacher. This shifted the focus away from a pure best show towards more curatorially motivated connections and thematic issues. The selection and award jury has been abolished, instead an open call and an artistic advisory board support the programming.

At its core, there are still around ten invitations for outstanding works by artists who live in German-speaking countries. They are supplemented by commissioned works developed by international artists in the partner cities - including Yael Bartana , Phil Collins , Ahmet Öğüt and Lotte van den Berg . The international commissioned works in 2016 were presented by the New York Nature Theater of Oklahoma , the Israeli performance group Public Movement under the direction of Dana Yahalomi and artists such as B. Chto Delat , Mårten Spångberg and Fourth World Collaborations from Berlin contributed.

During this time, the impulses were accompanied by an advisory board from science and art. In 2013 the advisory board included the curator Ellen Blumenstein , the ethnologist Thomas Hauschild , the theater scholar Hans-Thies Lehmann , and the comparativeist Winfried Menninghaus . For the 2015 and 2016 editions, the art historian Beatrice von Bismarck , the philosopher Boris Buden and the sociologist Oliver Marchart formed the advisory board. For the 2017 edition, the advisory board included the visual artist Ulf Aminde , the curator Ekaterina Degot , the poet Cristian Filips , the journalist Margarita Tsomou , the philosopher Marcus Steinweg and the theater scholar Joy Kristin Kalu .

Competition from 1990 to 2011

Up to and including 2011, an independent jury together with the artistic director selected the productions participating in the festival. In addition, a jury assessed the works shown during the festival and awarded various prizes. In 2011 the Dietmar N. Schmidt Prize was awarded in memory of the deceased festival founder for the best individual artistic achievement worth 1500 €.

literature

  • Christian Esch, Matthias von Hartz, Tom Stromberg (eds.): There is another way: Theater-Festival-Impulse. 2007 to 2011 . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942449-43-4 .
  • Florian Malzacher u. Stefanie Wenner (Ed.): Two Minutes of Standstill. A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana . Sternberg Press et al. NRW KULTURsekretariat, Berlin / Wuppertal, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95679-061-4 .
  • Florian Malzacher, Ahmet Öğüt, Pelin Tan (Eds.): The Silent University. Towards a Transversal Pedagogy . Sternberg Press et al. NRW KULTURsekretariat, Berlin / Wuppertal, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95679-245-8 .
  • Florian Malzacher, Dominik Müller, Felizitas Stilleke (Eds.): Keywords. Impulse Theater Festival 2013 - 2017 . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89581-475-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronny von Wagenheim: “Impulse” will no longer exist in Bochum. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. February 14, 2014, accessed February 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dorothea Marcus: Theater Festival Impulse 2015: Playing Ernst. In: goethe.de. June 2015, accessed April 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Festival: “Boris will definitely not just dance!” - WELT. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Haiko Pfost from 2018 head of the Impulse Festival. In: darstellende-kuenste.de. Federal Association of the Independent Performing Arts V., March 16, 2017, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Heiko Pfost becomes director of the "Impulse" theater festival - WELT. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  6. ↑ geka: Changed profile. Nachtkritik.de, March 16, 2017, accessed August 15, 2017 .
  7. ^ Season of the Theatertreffen on the Rhine and Ruhr
  8. ↑ Detlev Baur, Stefan Keim: Changed impulses . Interview with Florian Malzacher. In: The German Stage . No. 6 , 2013, p. 22nd f . ( Digitized version [PDF; accessed on September 13, 2019]).
  9. ↑ More than 300 submissions to the first open call. (No longer available online.) In: festivalimpulse.de. October 15, 2012, archived from the original on June 6, 2014 ; accessed on May 13, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Martin Krumbholz: Theater: Is Death a Performance? In: sueddeutsche.de. June 23, 2015, accessed on December 14, 2017 (registration required).
  11. ↑ Deutschlandfunk: Off-Theater from Berlin to Graz , accessed on June 5, 2014
  12. ↑ Impulse Advisory Board 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 2013.festivalimpulse.de
  13. ↑ Impulse Advisory Board 2015 , accessed on June 5, 2014.
  14. ↑ Advisory Board 2017. In: impulsefestival.de. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .