Hosted and organised by the Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin, Germany
13 – 16 May 2013

 

From 13 to 16 May, the Young Europe Festival presents all productions which were developed in the framework of “Young Europe 2: Multilingual Creation and Education”. The THEATER AN DER PARKAUE Berlin will host the festival.


Apart from watching theatre productions from Cyprus, Hungary, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Finland and Germany, the audience can talk to the theatremakers and the young people in order to find out about the working processes. All works dared to try new and wider possibilities with regard to young people‘s participation. Questions and experiences arising from this process will be dealt with in post-show talks, discussions and workshops. Within the Young Europe Talent Campus programme, around 20 young Europeans are invited from each partner theatre to form a European jury entitled to present their impressions about the plays at the end of the festival. In addition, an experimental blog will be initiated in collaboration with Nachtkritik.de and with the participation of 4 young people to follow every step of the festival and to keep the event alive for the online community.

Programme

DAY 1 

18:00

Welcoming reception at the Theater an der Parkaue
in presence of Doris Pack, EU member and Chair of the Culture an Education Committee
Dubravka Vrgoc, President of the European Theatre Convention and Artistic Director of the Zagreb youth Theatre
Kay Wuschek, Artistic Director of the Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin, Germany

19:00 15:15
produced by the Theater an der Parkaue in collaboration with Helsinki City Theatre (in German, with English subtitles)

 

DAY 2 

10:00 15:15
produced by the Theater an der Parkaue in collaboration with Helsinki City Theatre (in German, with English subtitles)

10:00 Palinkantzaroi
produced by Miskolc National Theatre

12:00 Theater an der Parkaue, guided tour

14:00 - 17:00
Theatre workshop by De Toneelmakerij "You+me=we" for Young Talent Campus participants

18:00 Kali-Kantzar and Co (Cypriot version) 
produced by Cyprus Theatre Organisation (in Greek with English and German subtitles)

18:00 Palinkantzaroi
produced by Miskolc National Theatre

19:00 No Risk No Fun – Intercultural Projects under Pressure to Succeed
Under the initiative of the Hertie-Stiftung - The power of diversity in the city

 

DAY 3 

10:00 Kali-Kantzar and Co (Cypriot version) 
produced by Cyprus Theatre Organisation (in Greek with English and German subtitles)

10:00 Fragen Fragen - La Vache et le Commissaire
produced by TJP, CDN d'Alsace, Strasbourg and Staatstheater Karlsruhe (in French and German)

14:00 - 16:00 Talent Campus: Theatre critic workshop animated by Georg Kasch, journalist

18:00 Fragen Fragen - La Vache et le Commissaire
produced by TJP, CDN d'Alsace, Strasbourg and Staatstheater Karlsruhe (in French and German)

 

DAY 4 

10:00 Ik, ich, I 
produced by De Toneelmakerij (Amsterdam) and Det Norske Teatret (Oslo) (in Dutch, Norwegian and English)

10:00 15:15
produced by the Theater an der Parkaue in collaboration with Helsinki City Theatre (in Finnish, with English subtitles)

14:00 - 16:00 Talent Campus: Theatre critic workshop animated by Georg Kasch, journalist

13:00 - 17:00 Intercultural Management workshop animated by Sophia Stepf, for Young Europe 2 project managers

18:00 15:15
produced by the Theater an der Parkaue in collaboration with Helsinki City Theatre (in Finnish, with English subtitles)

19:00 Ik, ich, I 
produced by De Toneelmakerij (Amsterdam) and Det Norske Teatret (Oslo) (in Dutch, Norwegian and English)

20:00 Festival closing, presentation of the Young Talent Campus workshop by the young people, observations and comments on the plays

Festival party 

Workshops

European Theatre Criticism Workshop

18 young people coming from 7 different countries (Hungary, Cyprus, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and France) are invited to the 1st Young Europe Talent Campus as part of the Young Europe 2 Festival to participate in an intensive workshop about theatre criticism. The workshop is a collaboration with the unique online theatre criticism portal www.nachtkritik.de that will host the blog which the Young Europe Talent Campus participants will develop throughout the festival. Animated by the theatre journalist and editor Georg Kasch, they will present their reflections on the various European theatre practices and techniques and debate on them with the festival audience and creative teams as part of the closing evening of the festival.

Workshop: 15 and 16/05/2013, 14.00 – 17.00

Final discussion on Thursday May 16 at 20:00, with the Young Talent Campus participants and the festival audience

 

You + Me = We 

In this 3-hour-workshop, which is set up as a challenging game, youngsters from several European countries will look for themselves and each other. Who are we? Where do we come from? What kind of borders exist between us? What is our connection? The youngsters will playfully investigate the image they have of themselves and of others. During the game, the participants will get small artistic assignments which they will present at the end of the workshop. The aim of the workshop is to get to know each
other, to kick off an unforgettable week.

Workshop: 14/05/2013, 13:30–17:30

Workshop leaders: Karlien Pijnenborg (theatrepedagogue De Toneelmakerij) and Paulien Geerlings (dramaturge De Toneelmakerij)

 

Incultural management workshop with Sophia Stepf

“Culture is the way we do things and view things around us“. When we work with people from other parts of Europe we encounter differences – of how we work, why we work and how we run our organisations and projects. As we mostly feel that our way is the most “normal“ and “possibly best“ way of doing things, we run into problems when our ways differ or even clash. Continuing a conversation on values, expectations and ways of doing things that started in Hungary in 2012, this year we will look at culture dimensions and their impacts on the Young Europe projects.

Workshop: 16/05/2013, 13:30 – 17:30

 

No Risk No Fun – Intercultural Projects under Pressure to Succeed

“be Berlin – be diverse” is a series of events that was initiated by the Berlin Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs in connection with the Hertie-Foundation. This initiative would like to encourage key players and institutions in the cultural sector to make Berlin‘s cultural richness which is contributed to the community by the group of more than 900,000 Berlin citizens from immigrant or “post-immigrant” backgrounds more accessible. The topic of cultural education plays a major role in this context. For this reason, “be Berlin – be diverse” will visit the “Young Europe Festival” at THEATER AN DER PARKAUE. Beyond doubt, it is possible to present the festival and the international productions – dealing with identities, the Other and various forms of community – as best practice examples. However, it is more important to ask on which basis these works have come into being. Which general set-up is indispensable? The willingness to take risk and the uncertainty of outcome – to what extent are they necessary? These questions will be discussed by the theatre makers, the audience and the Berlin State Secretary for Cultural Affairs.

14/05 at 7:30

Workshop leaders

Georg Kasch

Georg Kasch is an editor of the German online theatre magazine nachtkritik.de, writes for several newspapers and journals and sometimes produces for broadcast. He teaches at universities in Berlin and Munich and coaches several projects for young people. For more see www.georgkasch.de.

Sophia Stepf

Since 1992 Sophia writes and stages contemporary plays on the friction between globalisation, cultural identities, and localities with the company Flinntheater. She teaches the course Intercultural Dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. In 2007 Sophia founded Culture for Competence with Anja Schütze and regularly conducts seminars and workshops on theatre, performance and transcultural competence. In her training, she emphasizes on an experiential approach while also developing new training methods based on the concepts of European Theatre Pedagogy. She works with a wide variety of clients, form the educational, public administrative, and the artistic sector.

Young bloggers

An experimental blog has been initiated in collaboration with the online theatre portal Nachtkritik.de. Four young writers followed each step of the festival and kept the event alive for the online community.

 

Hannah Eßler

Born in 1993 in Franconia, Hannah Eßler discovered her affinity to theatre during her schooldays. After her graduation she started working for a youth theatre in Nuremberg. This pivotal time and her love for texts of all kinds brought her to Berlin, where she started to study literature and theatre studies in the fall of 2012.

Thomas Köck

Thomas Köck lives in Berlin since 2011, where he is studying his Masters in General and Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. He used to live in Vienna/Austria before, where he took part in many theatre projects (u.a. theatercombinat wien) and did several play readings and other presentations (u.a. Schauspielhaus Wien, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, HOT Potsdam, Zoom Rijeka).

Alissa Rubinstein

Alissa Rubinstein is a Los Angeles native currently studying Public History at the Freie Universität Berlin. She recently graduated with her BA in Drama and German at the Tufts University in Boston, where she specialized in theater historiography, criticism and production dramaturgy. Particular interests include theater for young people, translation and adaptation and political theater.

Jenny Sréter

Jenny Sréter, born in 1986 in Munich, likes theatre festivals. She studies her Masters in European Literature at the Humboldt Universität Berlin. Besides several internships realized in Hamburg, Munich and Dublin, she has worked the last couple of years at the International Forum of the Berlin Theatertreffen.

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