Mülheim Dramatist Prize
The Mülheim Dramatist Prize is awarded by a jury made up of theater professionals, critics and playwrights. The discussion takes place in public.
Since 1976 the Mülheim Theater Days "Plays" have taken place in May / June . Seven to eight pieces in the most effective performance - mostly the world premiere - are shown on the stages in Mülheim an der Ruhr . The pre-selection is made by a selection jury, consisting of five theater critics, from the German-language plays premiered in the respective season. The award jury, which is not identical, meets at the end of the Mülheim Theater Days after all performances have been shown. Around 2018 it consisted of an artistic director, two dramaturges and two theater journalists.
The Theatertage is still unique in its conception: New plays are evaluated - not their productions . The author of the best play will receive the Mülheim Dramatist Prize, endowed with 15,000 euros (as of 2019) . In addition, an undoped audience award will be awarded. The audience's ratings can differ greatly from the jury's award decision, as was shown by the 2018 vintage, when the jury's award-winning piece came last among the audience.
Since 2010, the “KinderStücke” festival has also been held as a competition on five of the 14 days in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The Mülheim Children's Piece Prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.
The winners
- 1976 Franz Xaver Kroetz - The Nest
- 1977 Gerlind Reinshagen - Sunday children
- 1978 Martin Sperr - The tip leather
- 1979 Heiner Müller - Germania - death in Berlin
- 1980 Ernst Jandl - From abroad
- 1981 Peter Greiner - Kiez
- 1982 Botho Strauss - Kalldewey, Farce
- 1983 George Tabori - Jubilee
- 1984 Lukas B. Suter - Schreber's garden
- 1985 Klaus Pohl - The old country
- 1986 Herbert Achternbusch - Gust
- 1987 Volker Ludwig - Line 1
- 1988 Rainald Goetz - War
- 1989 Tankred Dorst - Korbes
- 1990 George Tabori - Weisman and Red Face
- 1991 Georg Seidel - Villa Jugend
- 1992 Werner Schwab - People's Destruction or My Liver is Pointless
- 1993 Rainald Goetz - cataract
- 1994 Herbert Achternbusch - The boot and its socks
- 1995 Einar Schleef - Trumpets of the Dead
- 1996 Werner Buhss - Before we became old people
- 1997 Urs Widmer - Top Dogs
- 1998 Dea Loher - Adam Geist
- 1999 Oliver Bukowski - guests (tragedy)
- 2000 Rainald Goetz - Jeff Koons
- 2001 René Pollesch - world wide web-slums
- 2002 Elfriede Jelinek - Never mind
- 2003 Fritz Kater - time to love time to die
- 2004 Elfriede Jelinek - The Work
- 2005 Lukas Bärfuss - The Bus (The stuff of a saint)
- 2006 René Pollesch Cappuccetto Rosso
- 2007 Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel ( Rimini Protokoll ) Karl Marx: Das Kapital, first volume
- 2008 Dea Loher - The last fire
- 2009 Elfriede Jelinek - Rechnitz (The Choking Angel)
- 2010 Roland Schimmelpfennig - The golden dragon
- 2011 Elfriede Jelinek - winter trip
- 2012 Peter Handke - Still storm
- 2013 Katja Brunner - legs too short
- 2014 Wolfram Höll - And then
- 2015 Ewald Palmetshofer - the unmarried one
- 2016 Wolfram Höll - We are three
- 2017 Anne Lepper - Girls in Need
- 2018 Thomas Köck - playing paradise (occident. Ein sang)
- 2019 Thomas Köck - atlas
Web links
- Links to individual years
- Festival portal from nachtkritik.de for the 33rd Mülheim Theater Days 2008
- Festival portal from nachtkritik.de for the 34th Mülheim Theater Days 2009
- Festival portal from nachtkritik.de for the 35th Mülheim Theater Days 2010
- Blog about the 39th Mülheim Theater Days from Theater heute
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mülheim Dramatist Award for Thomas Köck: Ambitious Welttheater , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, June 2, 2018, accessed June 4, 2018
- ↑ Mülheim Dramatist Award 2017 Anne Lepper is Dramatist of the Year , Der Tagesspiegel from June 4, 2017, accessed on June 4, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Thomas Köck receives Mülheim Dramatist Prize . Article dated June 3, 2018, accessed June 3, 2018.
- ↑ Thomas Köck receives Dramatist Prize for the second time in a row , SPon, published and accessed June 2, 2019