Theaterpreis des Bundes 2021
Jury statement
“Lena Kußmann, Jonas Vietzke and Milena Fischer took over the Theater an der Glocksee, which was founded 30 years ago by students on the squatted Glocksee site, from founding member Helga Lauenstein in 2018/19 and completed a convincing generational change. Although, as a small independent venue in Lower Saxony, they are forced to work on a project basis, they also plan for the long term and explore individual topics in depth, such as the 2020 annual project on plants. Great importance is attached to contact with the audience, both in new mediation formats and in the design of the theater space, in which audience seats are integrated into the stage design. During the pandemic, the Theater an der Glocksee impressed with its imaginative outdoor and online formats. The supra-regionality and internationality of the digital format has ‘unleashed many ideas that want to be pursued,’ the leadership team wrote in their application for the Theaterpreis des Bundes. The jury wants to support them in their ‘megalomaniac dream of global theatrical networking.’” – Jury statement