St. Gallen Author Days

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The St. Galler Autorentage was a literary competition that was held every two years from 2005 to 2009 by the St. Gallen Theater , then in collaboration with the Konstanz Theater . The competition was founded by then St. Gallen drama director Josef Köpplinger . The St. Gallen Theater has given up participation in this competition in favor of the Dramenprozessor writing workshop .

requirements

1st to 3rd Author Days (2005, 2007, 2009)

Authors of new German-language theater plays that had already been accepted by theater publishers but were not allowed to be publicly performed or published by the deadline could take part.

4th to 6th Author Days (2011, 2013, 2015)

The call for tenders was new for concepts for pieces that had not yet been created and first scene sketches.

Prices

Up to 2009, three pieces were selected from all submissions for the sponsorship award and the audience award of the Author Days. Towards the end of the season, the nominated pieces were presented in readings. The winning play was premiered in the following season at the St. Gallen Theater . In addition, an expert jury awarded the CHF 10,000 sponsorship award from the local community of St. Gallen.

As of 2011, due to the changed tender, one of the three piece drafts presented to the audience in staged readings was developed into a piece together with the dramaturgy during the author's two-month stay at the Theater St. Gallen or the Theater Konstanz and then performed at the other theater as Guest performance shown.

Finalists 2005

2007 finalists

Finalists 2009

  • The matchstick palace of Dirk Dobbrow
  • Silent Song by Simone Kucher
  • Chicken. Hawks. by Charlotte Roos, (audience and jury award)

Finalists 2011

  • This train from Julia Kandzora
  • lucky unlucky by Jean-Michel Räber (audience award)

Finalists 2013

  • grief and disillusionment OR wretchedness burns hotter than the sun OR perfidy and sweat of fear in times of Katja Brunner's inability to relate
  • Mal was Afrika by Dmitrij Gawrisch (Jury Prize)
  • Murder burner by Johannes Hoffmann
  • What remains by Rebecca C. Schnyder (audience award)

Finalists 2015

  • The tenderness of the dogs by Uta Bierbaum (audience award)
  • About my corpse from Stefan Hornbach
  • Mummies of Mehdi Morad Pour (Jury Prize)
  • Dog  of Sarah Trilsch

success

Almost all of the works that took part in the final were then performed: Chickens. Hawks. experienced 13 January 2010 on the studio stage of the Theater St. Gallen in co-production with the Theater an der Winkelwiese in Zurich under the direction of Tea Kolbe its premiere . Other pieces have been shown at Theater Osnabrück , Theater Würzburg , Thalia Theater Hamburg, Schauspiel Hannover , Theater Heidelberg , Theater Biel-Solothurn , Kosmos Theater Wien , Landestheater Tübingen , Theater Chur and at the Berliner Ensemble . Nordost was also successful outside of German-speaking countries, premiered at Dramaten Stockholm and then played at Theater Winkelwiese in Zurich, in Kaiserslautern, Graz, Dresden, Erlangen, Turku ( Finland ), Stuttgart, Lübeck, Nuremberg, Athens, Copenhagen ( Denmark ) , Helsinki (Finland), Salzburg, Gothenburg ( Sweden ) and at the Theater St. Gallen .

Previous jurors (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Surber, Strings: The Processor in St. Gallen .