Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen

The Stückemarkt of the Berliner Theatertreffen was founded in 1978 as the first funding initiative for new drama in German-speaking countries. It is a platform for plays that have not yet been performed and a writing school for budding dramatists. The Stückemarkt is committed to bringing new pieces to the theater schedules.

history

Since it was founded, a total of 203 authors have taken part in the Stückemarkt, including those who later became known such as Elfriede Jelinek , who with her play Was Happened after Nora had left her husband or was invited to support society in the first year and was still considered an Austrian insider tip at the time.

In the first twenty years of the festival, the Stückemarkt management selected five pieces each year from those free to premiere in order to present them to a wider audience at the Theatertreffen. There was no jury at the time - the Stückemarkt manager was solely responsible for the program.

In 2003, the Stückemarkt opened to authors from all over Europe who could submit theater texts in the original language. The presentation of new dramas for theater people turned into a competition for as yet unknown authors. A jury of experts has since sifted through hundreds of plays, of which between five and seven will be presented in staged readings during the Theatertreffen.

Awards and work contracts, collaborations with partner theaters and a radio station were later introduced, an international network was established and the translation of the plays into English, the realization of master classes and dramatist workshops and the assumption of one-year sponsorships for the authors were established. With the Theatertreffen symposium “Schleudergang Neue Dramatik” (2009), the Stückemarkt initiated further steps in the cooperation between dramatists and theaters, such as the expansion of in-house authorship. In 2012, the Stückemarkt expanded its definition of the author: for the first time, project work by theater collectives was admitted to the competition. A performer duo was invited to develop their submitted concept in the newly established project laboratory and to present the result at the Stückemarkt.

On its 35th anniversary in 2013, the Stückemarkt took stock and looked into the future: 35 authors who were invited to the Stückemarkt were presented with new works. 30 authors wrote short texts on the topic “Where to? Decline and fall of western civilization ”, u. a. Herbert Achternbusch, John von Düffel, Elfriede Jelinek, Oliver Kluck, Dirk Laucke, Anne Lepper, Philipp Löhle, Wolfram Lotz, Marius von Mayenburg, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Einar Schleef, Werner Schwab and Nis-Momme Stockmann.

In 2014, the examination of new models of authorship, which had already begun by the project laboratory in 2012 and the anniversary in 2013, was pursued: for the 36th edition of the Stückemarkt, three Theatertreffen sponsors looked for artists who would develop new theater languages.

In 2015, the selection process for the Stückemarkt was changed. A five-person artist jury and an open competition were reintroduced, as well as new selection criteria that can be applied equally to theater texts and theater projects. Since 2016, the Stückemarkt has been awarding a work contract together with the Federal Agency for Civic Education / bpb.

The competition was announced internationally for the first time with the 2019 Stückemarkt. Authors and theater collectives can apply equally with theater texts and theater projects. A five-person jury of artists will select five works from the entries. As part of the Theatertreffen, the selected works will be presented according to their form - as guest performances, staged readings, performances, site-specific formats, etc.

Maria Nübling has been the head of the Stückesmarkt since the 2018/19 season.

Invited artists and award winners

Promotion Prize for New Drama (2003–2012)

From 2003 to 2012, the Stückemarkt awarded the Heinz und Heide Dürr Foundation's sponsorship prize for new drama (endowed with 5,000 euros), which was accompanied by a world premiere in a well-known theater. Another text was adapted and broadcast as a radio play by Deutschlandradio Kultur .

2003 David Lindemann for Koala Lumpur (donated by Dresdner Bank); World premiere on December 19, 2003, Schauspielhaus Bochum
2003 Anja Hilling for Stars (donated by Dresdner Bank); Premiere on January 28, 2006, Bühnen der Stadt Bielefeld
2004 Laura Sintija Cerniauskaite for Lucy auf Eis
2005 Oliver Schmaering for Seefahrerstück ; World premiere on September 17th, 2005, Neues Theater Halle
2006 Thomas Freyer for rampaging my child's game ; Premiere on May 28, 2006, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
2007 Maria Kilpi for Harmin Paikka - plus zero point five calm ; World premiere on December 20, 2007, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
2008 Klaas Tindemans for Bulger ; Premiere on December 17th, 2008, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
2009 Oliver Kluck for The Principle Meese ; World premiere on February 6, 2010, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
2010 Claudia Grehn for harvest ; Premiere on December 19, 2010, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
2011 Juri Sternburg for the penner is already somewhere else ; Premiere on January 15, 2012, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
2012 Michel Decar for Jonas Jagow ; World premiere on March 15, 2013, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

Work orders

Since 2007, the Stückemarkt, together with the Federal Agency for Political Education, has been awarding a work contract that is connected with a world premiere at a well-known theater.

2007 Philipp Löhle Called Gospodin ; Premiere of Die Kaperer or Tear down the house and build a ship (work commission from TT Stückemarkt 2007) on March 20, 2008, Schauspielhaus Wien. German era performance on September 18, 2008, Staatstheater Mainz
2008 Anne Habermehl Last Territory ; Premiere by Daddy (commissioned by TT Stückemarkt 2008) on June 20, 2009, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich
2009 Nis-Momme Stockmann The man who ate the world ; Premiere of No Ship Will Come (commissioned by TT Stückemarkt 2009) on February 19, 2010, Schauspiel Stuttgart
2010 Wolfram Lotz The Great March ; Premiere of Some Messages to the All (commissioned by the TT Stückemarkt 2010) on February 24, 2011, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
2011 Anne Lepper for dog where are we going ; Premiere by Seymour (commissioned by TT Stückemarkt 2011) on January 8, 2012, Schauspiel Hannover
2012 Pamela Carter for Skåne - on the plain ; Premiere of Almost Very Close - Your War is Our War (work commission from TT Stückemarkt 2012) on April 6, 2013, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
2013–2015 not awarded
2016 Bara Kolenc and Atej Tutta for Blackholes ; Premiere 2017 at the Schauspiel Dortmund
2017 Bonn Park ; Premiere 2018/19 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
2018 Maya Arad Yasur; Premiere 2019/20 at the Schauspiel Köln
2019 Manuela Infante; Premiere 2020/21 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum

Invited artists

2014: Mona el Gammal, scenographer, with the space and time installation Haaus / Nummer8Null ; Chris Thorpe, writer and performer, with There Has Possibly Been An Incident ; Miet Warlop, visual artist and performer, with the performance Mystery Magnet
2015 Alexandra Badea, Pulvérisés / Zersplittert ; Daniel Cremer / Talking Straight, Talking Straight Festival ; Alexander Manuiloff, The State ; Tom Struyf, Another great year for fishing ; Stefan Wipplinger, bicycle woman pants
2016 Friederike Heller / Dino Pešut, The (before) last panda or Die Statik ; Bara Kolenc / Atej Tutta, Metamorphoses 3 °: Retorika ; Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen / Jonathan Bonici, Two-Women-Machine-Show, Trans- ; Philipp Preuss / Pat To Yan, A Concise History of Future China ; Bettina Bruinier / Simone Kucher, A Version of the Story
2017 Armin Petras / Petra Hůlová , cell number ; Johanna Castell, Katharina Kellermann, Rosa Wernecke / Swoosh Lieu, Who cares ?! - a multi-part staff meeting of the carers ; Markus Heinzelmann / Bonn Park , The growl of the Milky Way ; Johannes von Matuschka / Tanja Šljivar, We Are the Ones Our Parents Warned Us About ; Friederike Heller / Rainer Merkel , run and bring us your bare life ; Alice Buddeberg / Tine Rahel Völcker, Adam and the Germans (Die Mühle)
2018 Nora Schlocker / Olivia Wenzel, 1 yottabyte of live , Friederike Heller / Maya Arad Yasur, Amsterdam ; Turbo Pascal , Bad Houses ; Old Masters, Fresque ; Li Lorian, Exodus ; Branko Janack / Leon Engler, The naming of animals
2019 Julia Wissert / Nazareth Hassan, Vantablack ; Lilja Rupprecht / Amir Gudarzi, The Assassin's Castle ; Bonn Park , BAMBI & The Themes ; Manuela Infante, Estado Vegetal ; Sashko Brama, Fall on Pluto ; Elsa-Sophie Jach / Gracie Gardner, Pussy Sludge