Autor:innentheatertage 2022

Three world premieres, nine Berlin premieres, a quarter of a century Neue Dramatik: the program of the Autor:innentheatertage 2022 is complete. From June 8 until June 18, 2022 all stages of the Deutsches Theater Berlin will be bustling. It is the 25th edition of the festival.

This year´s jury of the festival – the playwright Ferdinand Schmalz, the actress Julischka Eichel and the musician and theater-maker Christiane Rösinger – chose three texts out of almost 200 submissions which will have their world premieres as the highlight of the festival on June 18, 2022, during the Long Night of the Authors. The productions are co-productions with the two partner theatres Schauspielhaus Graz and Schauspiel Leipzig:

Paula Thielecke
Judith Shakespeare - Rape and Revenge
Director: Christina Tscharyiski (Coproduction with the Schauspielhaus Graz)
Sat 18 June, Deutsches Theater

Raphaela Bardutzky
Fischer Fritz
Director: Enrico Lübbe (Coproduction with the Schauspiel Leipzig)
Sa 18 June, Kammerspiele

Alexander Stutz
Das Augenlid ist ein Muskel
Director: Jorinde Dröse (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Fr 17 + Sat 18 June, Box

The theatre text Wonderwomb by Amir Gudarzi received special recognition from the jury and will be performed as a reading during the Long Night of the Authors.

In 2020 and 2021, the Autor:innentheatertage held two very special festivals, however without any guest performances due to the corona virus. Therefore the selection for this year's festival deliberately includes second performances: All texts will be shown on Berlin stages for the very first time. The ten day countdown to the Long Night includes:

Rainald Goetz
Empire of Death (Reich des Todes)
Director: Stefan Bachmann (Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and Schauspiel Köln)

Sivan Ben Yishai
Wounds Are Forever (self-portrait as national poet) (Selbstportrait als Nationaldichterin)
Director: Marie Bues (Nationaltheater Mannheim and Theater Rampe Stuttgart)

Milena Michalek & Ensemble
Koralli Korallo
Director: Milena Michalek (Kosmos Theater Wien)

Elfriede Jelinek
Noise. Blind seeing. Blind seeing! (Lärm. Blindes Sehen. Blinde Sehen!)
Director: Frank Castorf (Burgtheater Wien)

Teresa Dopler
Monte Rosa
Director: Matthias Rippert (Staatstheater Hannover)

Bonn Park
The Robbers of Hearts (Die Räuber der Herzen)
Director: Bonn Park (Schauspielhaus Hamburg)

Thomas Köck
Your Palaces Are Standing Empty (All We Ever Wanted) (Eure Paläste sind leer (all we ever wanted))
Director: Jan Christoph Gockel (Münchner Kammerspiele)

Caren Jeß
Eleos. An outrage in 36 miniatures (Eleos. Eine Empörung in 36 Miniaturen)
Director: Daniel Foerster (Schauspielhaus Graz)

Fritz Kater
Milchwald
Director: Armin Petras (Theater Bremen)

The Autor:innentheatertage are a festival of encounters: Newcomers and regular guests, colleagues and Berliners, quiet connoisseurs and party animals - they are all our guests in June. The forecourt, the festival bar, introductions and follow-up talks, readings, concerts and DJs invite you to come and stay. In the author salons, the audience has the opportunity to get to know our festival authors. They will talk about their plays and their writing.

Autor:innensalons with

• Sivan Ben Yishai – Wed 8 June, Saal, after the performance of Wounds Are Forever (self-portrait as national poet) (Selbstportrait als Nationaldichterin)
  
• Rainald Goetz – Thur 9 June, Saal, after the performance of Empire of Death (Reich des Todes)
• Milena Michalek – Fr 10 June, Box, after the performance of Koralli Korallo
• Caren Jeß – Fr 10 June, Saal, after the performance of Eleos. An outrage in 36 miniatures (Eleos. Eine Empörung in 36 Miniaturen)
• Theresa Dopler – Sat 11 June, Saal, after the performance of Monte Rosa
• Bonn Park – Tue 14 June, Saal, after the performance of The Robbers of Hearts (Die Räuber der Herzen)
• Thomas Köck – Wed 15 June, Saal, after the performance of Your Palaces Are Standing Empty (All We Ever Wanted) (Eure Paläste sind leer (all we ever wanted)
  
  Free entry

An old House full of Passion (Ein altes Haus voll Leidenschaft)
An evening of reading with the DT-Atelier Authors Milena Michalek, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Thomas Perle, Nele Stuhler, Maria Ursprung
Fr, 17 June, Bar

Wonderwomb
by Amir Gudarzi
special recognition from the jury
Sat, 18 June, Saal

The Autor:innentheatertage 2022 will take place in its 25th edition. For the festival's anniversary, a book by the authors is being produced in cooperation with Alexander-Verlag: Companions from 25 years of reflection - sometimes seriousl, sometimes cheerfull, sometimes dissolute, sometimes aphoristical- on their own writing. And on theatre itself. The magical place, despite everything. The book will be published at the end of May, just in time for the start of the festival.

With texts by:
Michael Althen, Lukas Bärfuss, Sivan Ben Yishai, Andri Beyeler, Dorian Brunz, Nuran David Calis, Lisa Danulat, Michel Decar, Robin Detje, John von Düffel, Reto Finger, Anne Habermehl, Patty Kim Hamilton, Anja Hilling, Caren Jeß, Steffen Kopetzky, Svealena Kutschke, Amanda Lasker-Berlin, Philipp Löhle, Dea Loher, Milena Michalek, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Laura Naumann, Jakob Nolte, Albert Ostermaier, Thomas Perle, Rosa von Praunheim, Moritz Rinke, Kevin Rittberger, Ferdinand Schmalz, Nele Stuhler, Miroslava Svolikova, Ulrike Syha, Maria Ursprung

The detailed festival program for the Autor:innentheatertage will be published here on May 1. Pre-sales for the guest performances and for the Long Night of Authors begin on May 10.

Festival jury: Ferdinand Schmalz, Julischka Eichel, Christiane Rösinger

Partner theatres: Schauspiel Leipzig, Schauspielhaus Graz