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DRAMA! 2024
The DRAMA! festival will take place for the 5th time from 24 - 27 October. The teaching and learning format has become deeply engrained in the hearts and minds of students. For some it is the best experience of their studies, for others it is the start of long-term working friendships.
The festival has also become a fixed address for talent scouts such as dramaturges, publishers and drama directors.
This year, we are bringing together students from four universities in three cities. In addition to the actors, directors and dramaturges from the Theaterakademie, the actors from Hanover and the authors from the UdK, a directing student from the Ernst-Busch-Hochschule in Berlin is also taking part.
For three of this year's authors, German is not their native language. They come from China, Italy and Chile. They study in Berlin and write in German. They are joined by actors and directors from Ukraine and Poland. This gives the festival a special aspect of internationality.
Artistic Directors Eva-Maria Voigtländer, Isabel Osthues, Sabina Dhein
Lecturer in Scenic Writing John von Düffel
Lecturer in Directing Isabel Osthues
Lecturer in Dramaturgy Eva-Maria Voigtländer
Production Manager Paul Marwitz-Seyffert
SPIEL_WIESEN - A podcast of the Theaterakademie Hamburg
The dramaturgy students in an interview with the authors of the DRAMA! festival 2024.
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THE PLAYS
If only I understood your heart
By Leah Luna Winzely
It breaks. It cracks. It grows. It doesn't hold back.
It wants everything. And gets nothing.
It beats.
WITH: Nick Holbach, Emma Marie Nielsen, Anfisa Lazebna, Leander Ries
SCENIC DESIGN: Lori Brückner
DRAMATURGY: Lena Plumpe
A fox in the snow under an old tree that falls
By Peppa Camila Briones
A grandmother and her grandson drink tea. An everyday ritual of caring. The
story of a fox looking for rabbits in the snow becomes an attempt to find each other in dependence and powerlessness. How can we talk to a dying person about their death?
WITH: Herma Koehn, Lucas Zach
SCENIC DESIGN: Mira Seesemann
DESIGN: Rike Becker
SOUND: Clara Brezinka
INSPIRE +OUTSIDE EYE: Niyousha Azari
DRAMATURGY: Leonard Kaiser
Bzz bald or bumblebee monologues
by Alice Muitoevoli Rugai
The memories of my grandparents' garden, the leaves and the GREEN have faded and disappeared. Only the bumblebee and its love can save us from nostalgia. What do the bees have to tell us? And how can we learn to deal with the dystopia out there?
WITH: Pierre Ivo Hase, Pablo León Herrera, Mathilde Mayer
SCENIC DESIGN: Maciek Martios
DRAMATURGY: n.n.
All my Girls like to fight
by Lili Roesing
Lya is on a quest. She doesn't know exactly what she's looking for. When she stumbles into a brightly lit self-defense studio late at night, a new world opens up for her.
Three actresses and a drummer box, play and fight for boundaries and spaces. A play about friendship, female rage, self-empowerment and the search for a home.
WITH: Alex Gut, Annabel Himmelspach, Lara Stelling
SCENIC DESIGN: Henrik Rico Hinze
COSTUME: Laura Kahler
DRUM: Sonja Möcklinghoff
DRAMATURGY: Elisabeth Hoppe, Angelika Haußmann
OUTSIDE EYE/ ARTIST COLLABORATION: Niyousha Azari
ich ich BERGE
by Fabian Hartje
ich's thoughts pile up into mountains of overwhelm. At home. On the street. Everywhere. Until I interrupt everything. Until it drips red. Or not. - Voices about the depths of loneliness, depression, suicide and hope.
WITH Gustav Bloéb, Till Gedack, Güney Korkmaz, Leona Trohl
VOICE Elisabeth Hoppe
SCENIC DESIGN + STAGE Georg Dirlack
MUSIC Clara Brezinka
COSTUME Cara Golenhofen
DRAMATURGY Marie M. Fuchs
OUTSIDE EYE Maike Graf
Program booklet for the scenic installation of ich ich BERGE
DISAPPEARED:
Leiben
By Sunan Gu
In a foreign country, in Germany, they have transformed their bodies. When the festival comes to an end, when homesickness takes over, do they remember the stories at night that everyone in China knows? A ghost paints on human skin and puts it on. "Is it the face you once dreamed of?" Leiben - a "Chinese story" without "Chinese".
WITH Isabella Fakhimi Roth, Laura Köppel, Niklas Marx, Paul Euler
SCENIC DESIGN + STAGE: Nathalie Rosenbaum
MUSIC: Deniz Deli
DRAMATURGY: Rongji Liao
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There will be three presentations on Thursday and Friday from 19:00. On Saturday there will be the opportunity to see all the plays in a marathon.
Admission costs €3 per performance.
The festival pass for the marathon on Saturday costs €15
Admission to the Hamburg Poetry Lecture with Samuel Finzi is free
Tickets are available at eventbrite via the following links:
Premiere Part A, Thursday, 24.10.2024
19:00-19:30 If only I understood your heart
19:45-20:15 Bzz bald oder Hummelmonologe
20:30-21:00 A fox in the snow under an old tree that falls
Premiere part B, Friday, 25.10.2024
19:00-19:30 ich ich BERGE
19:45-20:15 All my girls like to fight
ENTFALLT:20:30-21:00 Leiben
Marathon, part A+B, Saturday, 26.10.2024
16:00-16:30 If only I understood your heart
16:45-17:15 Bzz bald oder Hummelmonologe
17:30-18:00 A fox in the snow under an old tree that falls
PAUSE
19:00-19:30 I I MOUNT
19:45-20:15 All my girls like to fight
CANCELLED:20:30-21:00 Leiben
Festival pass for all performances on Saturday
Poetry lecture with Samuel Finzi, Sunday, 27.10.2024
11:00 am: Poetry lecture with Samuel Finzi
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DRAMA! 2024 - a cooperation between the Scenic Writing course at the UdK Berlin, the Directing course at the Ernst-Busch-Hochschule Berlin, the Acting Directing, Dramaturgy and Acting courses at the HfMT Hamburg & the Acting course at the HfMTM Hannover
The DRAMA Festival 2024 is made possible by the RUSCH Foundation and the Mara and Holger Cassens Foundation."