ViaThea
The ViaThea is an international street theater festival in the East Saxon city of Görlitz and its neighboring Polish city of Zgorzelec . It has been held annually for three days in summer since 1995 on bridges, squares and streets as well as in green areas in neighboring German-Polish cities. The opening events always take place on Thursday evening in the city park . In the years 2007-2010, the events took place on Sunday in Jakob Boehmes' birthplace, about 20 kilometers southeast - in Zawidów (until 1945: Seidenberg).
International artists and theater groups transform the inner and the old town of both cities into an open-air theater stage and offer the audience plays from the fields of performing and visual arts , mask and puppet theater , Cirque Nouveau and physical theater . Also plays with actors on stilts , Walk acts , dance theater , music, artistry , acrobatics and parades are among the annual events as part of ViaThea.
Access to the venues is free. The street theater festival is financed by sponsors, the city of Görlitz and the sale of programs and promotional items. The ViaThea Förderverein is one of the other supporters. The association supports the festival both personally and financially. According to the association, the 2011 festival cost 130,000 euros. The city and the main sponsor Veolia each provided 50,000 euros. The festival is organized by the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau and / or the Musiktheater Oberlausitz / Lower Silesia.
Since the 12th Street Theater Festival in 2006, the event has been held annually with a different theme.
| No. | year | Period | motto |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12. | 2006 | 3rd - 5th August | "Cirque Nouveau" |
| 13. | 2007 | August 2-4 | "Body theater" |
| 14th | 2008 | July 31st - August 2nd | "Water and Borders" |
| 15th | 2009 | August 6-8 | "Reunion with friends" |
| 16. | 2010 | August 5-7 | "Boundless encounters with art" |
| 17th | 2011 | August 4-6 | "Encounters on the via regia with the ViaThea" |
| 18th | 2012 | August 2-4 | "Street music" |
| 19th | 2013 | 13 August | "Limitless to one another" |
| 20th | 2014 | August 7th - 9th | "20 years of ViaThea" |
| 21st | 2015 | 24th July | |
| 22nd | 2016 | July 7th - 9th | |
| 23. | 2017 | July 6-8 |
The street theater festival is a member of the Federal Association of Theater in Public Spaces. V.
Web links
- Homepage of the ViaThea
- Homepage of the ViaThea Association
- Article on ViaThea with pictures , www.stadtwiki-goerlitz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ viathea.de: Welcome! (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 27, 2011 ; Retrieved December 28, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Görlitzer "ViaThea" with artists from nine countries . In: Culture! Summer . July 28, 2007.
- ↑ Ingo Kramer: Computer specialist gives 2200 euros for the theater festival . In: Saxon newspaper . March 15, 2011.
- ↑ a b ViaThea with Cirque Nouveau . In: weeks courier . July 26, 2006.
- ↑ viathea.de: Welcome to the 13th ViaThea! (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 23, 2010 ; Retrieved December 28, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ ViaThea . In: Culture! Summer . July 2008.
- ↑ Reunion with friends . In: weeks courier . July 22, 2009.
- ↑ Preparatory phase for the 16th international street theater festival ViaThea is entering its final spurt . In: Official Journal . August 3, 2010.
- ↑ ViaThea comes along on Via Regia . In: Saxon newspaper . December 28, 2010.
- ↑ goerlitzer-anzeiger.de: ViaThea is looking for street musicians . Retrieved August 2, 2012 .
