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  • The moderators Selma Buabeng and Daniel Zillmann stand on a slightly raised, round platform and speak to the audience surrounding them. A large chandelier is lowered from the ceiling.
    \\ General, TPB 2024

    Theaterpreis des Bundes 2024

    On October 2, 2024, the award ceremony of the Theaterpreis des Bundes took place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, where the Tabori Prize 2024 was also awarded.

  • Title image of the video presentation of the 2024 award winners: gradient surface with the text fragments “Theaterpreis des Bundes 2024”.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2024

    We would have liked to award many more prizes

    Christine Wahl took a look behind the scenes of the theater prize and spoke to Tessa Hart and Michael Lang about the work of the jury. What are the requirements for the prize? How does the jury process work? And how different are the perspectives?

  • Claudia Roth stands at the lectern.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2024

    "Change the world, it needs it"

    Claudia Roth on the 2024 Theaterpreis des Bundes, its reorientation as an innovation prize and its significance for society.

  • Performers on a stage furnished with a few tree stumps and a red patterned carpet. Some wear hoop skirts and stand-up collars, others festive 19th-century garments. The person in the centre is simply dressed and wears a red jester’s cap.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2024

    A kingdom for a theater seat

    The director of the Ernst Barlach Theatre Güstrow Johanna Sandberg talks to Christine Wahl about the commitment of the citizens of Güstrow to their 200-year-old theatre.

  • A dancer on a dimly lit stage. Behind them, a concert grand piano with a pianist and another person are faintly visible. Behind them stand the large white letters P E A C E.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2024

    Two times 100 percent 

    The directors of the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg Eva Lange and Carola Unser-Leichtweiß in conversation with Christine Wahl about new drama, the Marburg model and the tasks of an ‘ambassador for collaboration and the nonsensical’.

  • A person lies in an inflatable dinghy on a pond and plays the tuba; water lily leaves float on the water.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2024

    The Anti-Bubble Program 

    Christine Wahl in conversation with Anna K. Becker and Katrin Hylla about the involvement of the neighbourhood in the Schwankhalle's programming and the constant task of questioning one's own perspective. The artistic directors of Schwankhalle Bremen Anna K. Becker and Katrin Hylla in conversation with Christine Wahl.

  • Die Fassade der Berliner Festspiele in der Dämmerung: Das Foyer ist beleuchtet, es sind keine Besucher*innen zu sehen.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2023

    "We have tons of great projects" 

    Managing Director Hendrik Frobel, in-house dramaturge Geordie Bookman and artist duo Ana Jordao and Vincent Kollar in conversation with Christine Wahl about the residency program that Chamäleon Berlin is implementing with the prize money from the 2023 Theaterpreis.

  • Dancers in colourful costumes dance in a hall, one of them in a wheelchair; in the background, the audience sits in front of a projection.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2023

    A model project for Saxony 

    Anne-Cathrin Lessel, director of Leipzig-based LOFFT, and FORWARD DANCE COMPANY artistic project manager Gustavo Fijalkow talk to Christine Wahl about three forms of participation that will be implemented with the money from the 2023 Theaterpreis des Bundes.

  • A long red cloth lies across the floor of the circular scaffolding stage in blue evening light; three people stand in the background.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2023

    Thuringia? Your problem!

    Artistic director Lizzy Timmers, actress Pina Bergemann and dramaturge Hannah Baumann talk to Christine Wahl about the impact of the Theaterpreis des Bundes, which they won last year, their meteoric last season at Theaterhaus Jena and how things will now – hopefully – continue.

  • A group of people in light clothing stand close together in a rectangular field of light on a stage lit in violet.
    \\ Interview, TPB 2023

    Spaces to try things out 

    Artistic director Wagner Carvalho, dramaturge Fabian Larsson, set designer Leonie Brüggenwerth and costume designer Mathieu Amadou from Ballhaus Naunynstraße talk to Christine Wahl about a new learning and exchange format that will be launched at the theater in October thanks to the prize money from the Theaterpreis des Bundes.

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