New pieces from Europe

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The theater biennial New Plays from Europe is an international theater festival for contemporary drama. Presentations of current theater texts will be shown, performed in their original language and translated simultaneously for the audience.

history

The origin of the festival lies in the Bonn Biennale , which was founded in 1992 and took place every two years until 2008. The New Pieces from Europe festival has been taking place in the Rhine-Main region since 2004. The main venue is the Wiesbaden State Theater . Among the discoveries at the festival were Jon Fosse , Biljana Srbljanović and Enda Walsh .

organization

New pieces from Europe are based on a network of so-called godparents. These are renowned playwrights, "godparents" from 41 European countries, including Biljana Srbljanović (Serbia), Özen Yula (Turkey), Bernhard Studlar (Austria), Gianina Carbunariu (Romania), Simona Semenić (Slovenia), Mark Ravenhill (United Kingdom) , Paul Pourveur (Belgium), Hristo Boytchev (Bulgaria), Laura Ruohonen (Finland), Ákos Németh (Hungary) and Tena Štivičić (Croatia) (as of 2014). They propose new theater texts and productions to the artistic director and provide information on current theater events in their country.

The artistic direction of New Pieces from Europe consists of Manfred Beilharz , director of the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden, Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler , who together founded the Bonn Biennale in 1992. This team is supported by changing theater makers at each festival.

Since its inception, the Theater Biennale has been a work festival with five workshop programs. The Forum for Young Authors has been led by dramatists in a German and an English-language workshop since 1998, such as Mark Ravenhill and Martin Heckmanns , Biljana Srbljanović, Theresia Walser , Nicoleta Esinencu and Enda Walsh .

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