Jury statement

“The theatre Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg stands for artistic perspectives of colour and offers numerous people an important space for reflection on post-colonial structures in everyday life and art.

A house like a beacon for the diversification of the German theatre business: not only did post-migrant voices become audible here for the first time, but the term post-migrant theatre as such was invented and coined here – the path of a Practice What You Preach in the development of programme, audience and personnel structures, which the current artistic director Wagner Pereira de Carvalho and his team have been consistently developing in the direction of crossectional diversity not only on, but also behind and in front of the stage for 10 years now. Ballhaus Naunynstraße thus creates a unique framework for the self-determined production of black, queer and artists of colour. Ballhaus Naunynstraße has a lasting effect on the development of artistic signatures: Numerous artists have realised their first productions here and over the years have produced a large number of high-quality works at the Ballhaus, often attracting national and international attention with their art.” – Jury statement