On four week-end dates a large breakfast table will be set in the Festival Centre, with an open invitation to attend the new discussion format of Theaterformen. In place of individual post-show discussions, audience members, artists, grant-holders, staff and guests will encounter one another at the Festival Breakfast. This is where we talk about what was and become curious about what is to come. Each Festival Breakfast is unique, and always delicious.


With Brett Bailey, Béla Pintér, Anna Rispoli, Toshiki Okada, Philippe Quesne, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller and festival grant-holders


With Mokhallad Rasem, Dejan Kaludjerović, Trickster^P, Jetse Batelaan, Omar Ghayatt, Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh and festival grant-holders


With John Collins (Elevator Repair Service), Kari Holtan (De Utvalgte), Mahin Sadri (Mehr Theatre Group), Zachary Oberzan, Aitana Cordero, Christophe Jacquet (Velma) and festival grant-holders


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schneider
Theater und Migration
Book launch and podium discussion in German

Germany is an immigrant nation, even according to the new, official stance taken by politics. In fact, almost a quarter of the population has an immigrant background. However, it is only a marginal phenomenon in German theatre. So how can social self-awareness, in terms of migration, be promoted through the dramatic arts? Which theatre policies can initiate the exchange of cultures? Which artistic programmes deal with cultural change? Which devices of cultural mediation does theatre need? And how would such a reform change the theatre system?

Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schneider, director of the Institut für Kulturpolitik der Universität Hildesheim, has published a book on the topic of theatre and migration. Joining him for a podium discussion are Anja Dirks, Simone Dede Ayivi (free-lance director) and Judith Gerstenberg (head dramaturg of the Schauspiel Hannover).

Theater und Migration. Herausforderung und Auftrag für die Kulturgesellschaft Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2011