Content
Wanderlust – Fund for International Theatre Partnerships
Wanderlust is the urge to travel and broaden one's horizons. The German Federal Cultural Foundation is committed to fulfilling this dream for municipal and state theatres in Germany which would like to establish a partnership with a foreign theatre. "Wanderlust" is an application-based fund that finances theatre partnership and exchange for two to three seasons. In the first year, the theatres could exchange artistic personnel. In the second, they might choose to host a guest production from their partner theatre. And in the third year, the theatres could organize a co-production to be performed at both locations. The partner theatres are free to organize the details of their working arrangement themselves according to their interests and capacities. The goal is to involve as many members of each theatre in the cooperative venture as possible. The fund also provides the option of continuing an existing partnership in the case that both partner theatres begin a new project. Project applications were selected by the Executive Board of the Federal Cultural Foundation based on the recommendations of an independent jury consisting of Michael Börgerding (director of the Theaterakademie Hamburg), Stefan Schmidtke (director of the programme department for the European Capital of Culture - Tallinn 2011) and Eva-Maria Voigtländer (dramaturge for the Ruhr Triennial).
The Federal Cultural Foundation can award a maximum of 150,000 euro per partnership. The applying theatre or third-party sponsors must finance at least 25 % of the entire cost of the project.
The fund runs for five years. The last submission deadline ended 15 October 2009.
Current Events of the Wanderlust Fund
| 24.+25.5.2012 | Chimären. Das Ballett der Versehrten - Chimères. La valse des écorchés Premiere of the German-French co-production at Théâtre de la Tête Noire, Saran |
|
| 1.6.2012 | Landscape with the Fall Premiere of the German-Croatian co-production at Staatstheater Braunschweig |
|
| 1.6.2012 | "... and all the stars above us" Premiere of the German-Russian co-production at Kiselyov Youth Theatre, Saratov |
|
| 8.6.2012 | Welt 3.0 - Maschinerie Hilfe Premiere of the German-Malawian co-production at Theater Konstanz |
|
| 10.6.2012 | Yellow Line Premiere of the German-Croatian co-production at Staatstheater Braunschweig |
|
| 16./17.6.2012 | Tales of a Migrant Guest performance by Nanzikambe Arts at Theater Konstanz |
|
| 8.-28.7.2012 |
Welt 3.0 - Maschinerie Hilfe |
|
| 29./30.4.2012 | "... and all the stars above us" Premiere of the German-Russion co-production at TJG Dresden |
|
| 6.10.2012 | Der imaginäre sibirische Zirkus des Rodion Raskolnikow Premiere of the German-Finnish co-production at the Munich Kammerspiele |
|
| 13.10.2012 | Bromberg's Bloody Sunday Premiere of the German-Polish co-production at Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz |
|
| 19.10.2012 | Das normale Leben oder Körper und Kampfplatz Premiere of the German-Danish co-production at Staatsschauspiel Dresden |
|
| 4.11.2012 | Bromberg's Bloody Sunday Premiere of the co-production at Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord Wilhelmshaven |
Overview of the Theatre Partnerships supported by the Wanderlust Fund
529 km to the Future
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin and Narodowy Stary Teatr, Cracow
Attention Pioneers!
Staatstheater Braunschweig and z/k/m – Zagrebacko kazalište mladih, Zagreb, Croatia
Border Crossers / Outrepasseurs
Thalia Theater Halle and Théâtre de la Tête Noire, Saran
Borderlines
Theater an der Parkaue and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Bromberg's Bloody Sunday
Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord Wilhelmshaven and Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Cabinet
Theater Freiburg and garajistanbul, Istanbul
Crossing Borders – From Lake to Lake
Theater Konstanz and Nanzikambe Arts, Blantyre, Malawi
Dacha Europa
Munich Kammerspiele and Smeds Ensemble, Helsinki, Finland
Do I know U?
Nationaltheater Mannheim / Schnawwl and Ranga Shankara Theatre, Bangalore
Druschba
Landestheater Tübingen and the Karelian National Theatre, Petrozavodsk
Family Ties
Theatre and Philharmonic Orchestra of Heidelberg and Teatron Beit Lessin, Tel Aviv
Fatzer Crosses the Alps
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin and Teatro Stabile Torino, Italy
Frau Luna. The Launch of a Berlin Operetta from the Border
Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt and Opera na Zamku w Szczecinie
Homeland Biladi
Schauspiel Leipzig / Spinnwerk and The Freedom Theatre, Jenin refugee camp
Les funerailles du desert
Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and C.I.T.O. Carrefour International Théâtre Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Looking for Legends
Gerhart Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau and Zdrojowy Teatr Animacji, Jelenia Góra, Poland
My Cold Chamber
Puppentheater Halle, Saale and Compagnie Louis Brouillard, Paris, France
People, Cars and Oil. The Carmakers of Barcelona and Stuttgart
Schauspiel Stuttgart / Staatstheater Stuttgart and Teatre Romea, Barcelona
SumSum²
Theater Erlangen and Teatr Pokoleniy, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Schauspielhaus Bochum and Veenfabriek, Leiden, Netherlands
The Future Strikes Back
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin and Habima National Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Pursuit of Happiness
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater and Kopergietery, Ghent
The Voices of Russe
Theater Osnabrück and Drama Theater, Russe
The White Chamber
Westfälische Kammerspiele, Paderborn and Huajuyuan Theatre, Qingdao, China
Theatre from the Very Beginning
Theater Junge Generation Dresden and Academic Kiselyov Youth Theatre, Saratov, Russia
Two Places - One Piece
Theater Oberhausen and Teatrul National Radu Stanca, Sibiu
View from the Outside / Blikket Udefra
Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Det Kongelige Teater Copenhagen, Denmark
Where the Metaphors Bloom
Junges Ensemble Stuttgart and La Baracca, Bologna, Italy
Artistic Areas:
Contact:
Astrid Schenka
German Federal Cultural Foundation
Franckeplatz 1
06110 Halle (Saale)
Tel.: +49 (0)345 2997 177
Fax: +49 (0)345 2997 333
>E-mail
Further Informations

Blog for International Theatre Partnerships
In our Wanderlust blog the 28 international theatre partnerships write about their joint meetings, workshops, guest performances and co-productions. In addition every season three "Pfadfinder" (scouts) head out to report about the latest developments. Here you can find the last three entries:
11.05.2012, Staatstheater Braunschweig
Auf nach…
…Zagreb, wo derzeit die Proben zu „Yellow Line“ laufen: 07. Mai. Ein kroatisch-deutsches Ensemble
probt unter der Leitung von [...]
08.05.2012, Staatstheater Braunschweig
Ready for take-off
2. Mai, 17h in der Statisterie des Staatstheaters – hier bereiten sich die Jugendlichen des „Klubs
der jungen Pioniere“ auf [...]
25.04.2012, Landesbühne Wilhelmshaven
Nachtrag
Aktion am 10. März 2012 gegen deutsch-polnische Vorurteile und Klischees in der Nordseepassage.
Über eine Woche vom Jugendclub [...]

