• Schwankhalle Bremen | Federal Theatre Prize 2024

  Schwankhalle Bremen | Federal Theatre Prize 2024

  
  "The Schwankhalle in Bremen's Neustadt district is one of the central production centres in Germany. Its programme includes the entire diversity of the performing arts with current positions from performance, theatre, dance and music theatre on a national and international level. At the same time, the Schwankhalle is a key booster of the independent scene in Bremen, offering local artists residencies, co-productions, performance and networking opportunities as well as cultural policy strategy advice and combining political theatre with the art of warm hospitality. The team led by artistic directors anna K. Becker and Katrin Hylla has remarkably developed the Schwankhalle's previous work by expanding its local roots through new artistic formats and creating spaces for play and thought for diverse perspectives." – Jury statement

   

• Hessisches Landestheater Marburg | Prize in the category of city theatres and state theatres

  Hessisches Landestheater Marburg | Prize in the category of city theatres and state theatres

  "The Hessisches Landestheater Marburg (HLTM) is setting standards for other theatres across Germany with the ‘Marburg Model’, the first equal (female) dual leadership at a publicly funded theatre. Through an artistic management constellation that consciously engages with discourses critical of power, it promotes a modern and responsible working environment: the artistic directors Eva Lange and Carola Unser-Leichtweiß practice a leadership style that is both exemplary and pioneering, manifesting itself in equal pay, democratic decision-making processes and family-friendly working hours with the long-term goal of establishing a ‘care-centred theatre business’. However, the HLTM not only impresses in terms of its operational structure by trying out new approaches; since its launch, the team has succeeded in mastering all the requirements and challenges of a regional theatre with limited resources and despite the difficult spatial situation, presenting ambitious, contemporary spoken theatre, initiating diversification and opening processes on an artistic level and taking into account the preferences of a wide variety of audiences in the process." – Jury statement

   

• FELD Theater für junges Publikum | Prize in the category independent production houses

  FELD Theater für junges Publikum | Prize in the category independent production houses

  
  "The FELD theatre for young audiences in Berlin-Schöneberg is an innovative, inclusive and intergenerational production venue for artistic encounters and developments that impresses through artistic and structural change in action. Since its opening in December 2018, the FELD has become an outstanding venue for young audiences that is rapidly developing and evolving, proving that even a small theatre with a small team can achieve great things. The exploratory and participatory way of working, which includes close cooperation with daycare centres, schools and social actors, promotes political thinking and self-empowerment for young people as well as age-open approaches. In in-house productions and co-productions with a wide range of aesthetics, renowned artists and groups from the independent theatre scene, many of whom are staging productions for young audiences for the first time, deal intensively with topics relevant to everyday life such as the environment, climate, sustainability and the future. The theatre opens up to its neighbours in the neighbourhood and is also internationally networked through its collaborations. The jury would particularly like to highlight the theatre's focus on inclusion and the deaf* community, both of which are very consistently anchored both in terms of personnel and programming, such as through bilingual productions with integrated German sign language." – Jury statement

   

• Ernst-Barlach-Theater | Category private theatres and touring theatres

  Ernst-Barlach-Theater | Category private theatres and touring theatres

  "The Ernst Barlach Theatre has been in Güstrow for 200 years and is the oldest surviving community theatre in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Today it acts as a guest theatre in a structurally weak region with political challenges through its own alternative cultural offerings and impresses with the balance in its programme between tradition and contemporary orientation. With a remarkable range of classical drama productions (in High and Low German), children's and youth theatre, ballet, cabaret and symphony concerts, the theatre attracts a large number of visitors from all social groups. The jury was particularly impressed by the newly initiated opening of the programme to performative approaches and to the independent scene through cooperation projects in the field of contemporary circus and dance. With extensive participatory encounter and educational offers, such as artist talks to convey different working methods and directorial styles, rehearsal visits, theatre tours, workshops for children and young people and further training for teachers, the theatre creates an exemplary anchoring of the theatre in the entire city and region." – Jury statement

   

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