Theater to the western city stag
The Theater zum western Stadthirschen was founded in 1982 by graduates of the Drama course at the Berlin University of the Arts , among them the later playwright Elfriede Müller . The theater has shown over 60 productions in Berlin, initially in its own domicile on Kreuzbergstrasse, and since 2000 at different venues and on guest tours. It was subsidized by the Berlin Senate Culture Administration from 1984 to 2008.
In addition to the development of in-house productions on freely chosen subject complexes (childhood, travel, death, jazz, time), the focus was and still is on the presentation of rarely performed, newly discovered or wrongly forgotten theater authors ( Achternbusch , Stein , Handke , Zschokke , Jelinek , Carrington , Fels , Durringer , Crimp , Lagarce and others). At the same time, there is always access to “timeless” fabrics and pieces of classical modernism ( Arthurian legend, Shakespeare , Gombrowicz , Pirandello , Horváth , Gilgamesh epic ).
Lately the theater has specialized in the staging of prose texts ( Bradbury , Bobrowski , Kristof , Bober , Bove , Josipovici , Wittkop , Poe , Soucy ) and is increasingly pursuing different approaches to documentary theater ("Jonteff", "sexualité .. . ”,“ Big city notes ”,“ Speeches ”,“ Conversations with schizophrenics ”,“ The delicate things are always threatened ”,“ The fliers ”).
Acting inventiveness, scenic reduction and artistic abstraction characterize the stagings characteristic of the Stadthirschen, the development of which continues to attach great importance to the greatest possible transparency between all those involved in the creation process. Over the years, those responsible for the arts have always endeavored not to commit themselves to a certain direction in terms of content, but to preserve an unpredictability that is productive in the best sense of the word.