JUNGES DT
Mission Statement
Junges DT is an integral part of the Deutsches Theater and aims to playfully access the world. For this, we use our institution’s various performance spaces and everything that the city offers as a stage. We help young people between the ages of 12 and 25 of all nationalities take their first steps in the Deutsches Theater. Junges DT offers an exchange about art through art and allows young people to encounter major plays, themes and formats. Junges DT also expands beyond the theatre and sets out on public explorations and on-site research with artists. It also initiates international cooperations – with Hosman/Romania, Basel/Switzerland, Zagreb/Croatia, Parma/Italy, Schaan/Lichtenstein, to name a few – to explore questions of intercultural thinking. Our focus is on collaborations between artists and young people where education becomes artistic research. Together with our participants, we use the free space that theatre provides.
We invite to see, discover and play.
We invite to see, discover and play.
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THE SEASON 22/23 AT JUNGES DT
THE SEASON 22/23 AT JUNGES DT
THE PRODUCTIONS
Who or what is beautiful? What should I believe in and what not? Whom or what do I love and desire? Who am I, actually? Who do I want to be? Junges DT is exploring reflections, world religions and outer space in the search for transformations, resistance, a sense of ease and freedoms. In three evenings at the theatre, everything revolves around rules and structures that appear to be fixed. How can we set off together, escape and joyfully take centre stage? We fearlessly face these questions with our youth ensembles.
In her latest graphic novel, IM SPIEGELSAAL (IN THE HALL OF MIRRORS), Liv Strömquist takes us on a journey through the discourse on beauty from the past 1,900 years and explains with great wit, careful research and playful ease why the issue of beauty is both a blessing and a curse. Performer and director Katharina Bill brings Stromquist’s graphic novel to the stage for its world premiere in the Box.
In her latest graphic novel, IM SPIEGELSAAL (IN THE HALL OF MIRRORS), Liv Strömquist takes us on a journey through the discourse on beauty from the past 1,900 years and explains with great wit, careful research and playful ease why the issue of beauty is both a blessing and a curse. Performer and director Katharina Bill brings Stromquist’s graphic novel to the stage for its world premiere in the Box.
240 years after Lessing’s wise NATHAN told the ring parable, director Joanna Praml lets the dramatic poem interact with the biographies of a youth ensemble. The group examines the creed for tolerant coexistence in a diverse city like Berlin, scrutinises the ideals of the Enlightenment and discovers which members of the group still believe in the concept of a world religion.
With the play development SPACE QUEERS (WT), director Paul Spittler goes on a mission with young people to the final frontier – space. In a pop-feminist juxtaposition of starlets and Sci-Fi, young people from the LGBTIQ+ community and their friends and allies join together in the fight against the concept of heteronormativity. May the force be with us!
With the play development SPACE QUEERS (WT), director Paul Spittler goes on a mission with young people to the final frontier – space. In a pop-feminist juxtaposition of starlets and Sci-Fi, young people from the LGBTIQ+ community and their friends and allies join together in the fight against the concept of heteronormativity. May the force be with us!
THE PROJECTS
CAMPS AND CLUBS
Theatre is more than just a seat in the auditorium! We open the stage to everyone between the ages of 12 and 22 to create a space in which young people can confidently and playfully explore the world and current discourses as well as discover new forms of theatre.
We open the season with a staged reading in cooperation with LESART. An adaptation of Alison McGhee’s novel WIE MAN EINE RAUMKAPSEL VERLÄSST (WHAT I LEAVE BEHIND), nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award, premieres on 14 September in the Box.
We open the season with a staged reading in cooperation with LESART. An adaptation of Alison McGhee’s novel WIE MAN EINE RAUMKAPSEL VERLÄSST (WHAT I LEAVE BEHIND), nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award, premieres on 14 September in the Box.
With a great passion for experimentation, the three YOUTH CLUBS meet at weekly rehearsals to develop a production which is then shown in the Box at the end of the season. In our “What do you dare to do?” CAMP, the Easter holidays become a performative mission in which we push ourselves beyond our limits with theatre, dance, literature and music. Our monthly THEATRE GYM provides practical insights into theatre life with our Background Stories in which you can get to know various DT artists and actors and go on short artistic research trips together. No previous experience is required – all you need is the courage to sign up! Information about all our events and activities is available at MEDIATHEK DER FORMATE.
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