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The Berlin Theatertreffen is open. At the beginning, Katie Mitchell’s staging of “Bernarda Alba’s House” was proven within the night. The manufacturing of the German playhouse Hamburg is about patriarchal rule, oppression and resistance.

“The theater assembly exhibits yr after yr how vigorous how politically, how courageous the German -language theater is at present and needs to be at present. And how a lot work, how a lot ardour, how a lot ardour is behind each staging, »stated the managing state minister Claudia Roth (Greens) on the opening.

Roth’s time period in workplace quickly over

For her, the night can also be a second to say goodbye – it is among the final appointments of the Greens politician in her workplace. “And as one of my last appointments, I could really not be more worthy, no more loving, no more true wishes than this: the theater meeting.” The look again at her time as Minister of Culture fulfills her with deep gratitude and likewise a bit of with melancholy. “But I go with the trust that art will continue to grow.”

“Bernarda Albas Haus” is a chunk of the Spaniard Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). The British playwright Alice Birch has created a brand new model of the tragedy, which Mitchell staged in a “prison -like stage house” as a “hermetic nightmare”, because the jury’s assertion says.

One of the most important stage festivals

The theater assembly is among the huge stage festivals. A jury invitations you to 10 most outstanding productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland yearly Berlin a. It runs till May 18.

The 10-man choice additionally contains the provocative and bloody opera efficiency “Sancta” by the Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger. The joint piece “Yes nothing is ok” by Fabian Hinrichs and the Volksbühnen director René Pollesch, who died in 2024, was additionally invited.

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