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Home Game
The Federal Cultural Foundation recently established the HOME GAME fund to promote theatre projects which address the urban and social reality of cities and try to attract new audiences to (city) theatre. Theatre often plays a key role in the image and identity of a city. It is a public place where people gather together and reflect on themselves and society on the whole. However, all public theatres have to struggle to gain the audience’s acceptance and financial support. What is involved when producing theatre productions for cities nowadays? How can we make theatre a place which tackles urgent contemporary issues? How can theatres attract new audiences while presenting their regular audiences with unusual points of view?
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The Federal Cultural Foundation wishes to encourage general theatre directors, festival organizers, dramaturges, directors, set designers and musicians to incorporate impulses from their home cities into their theatre activities. They are urged to go out into unfamiliar city quarters and acquaint themselves with the residents' life stories and everyday routines. This is the only way to create new forums which would produce a true exchange between theatre and the city's inhabitants - between art and reality.
In recent years, we have seen an increasing number of artistic projects which have tried to address reality in new forms by putting amateurs on stage. But this is not about setting up "warm rooms" in theatres or publicly "exhibiting" certain groups of the population with all their quirks. The goal is rather to have artists and residents collaborate in a creative process in which both can learn from one another. In the end, both groups would benefit in producing an artistically interesting and ambitious result.
Before applying for funding from HOME GAME, applicants should do intensive research about their city. What issues are especially important to the people in the city? Which groups of people experience things which generally go unnoticed on a day-to-day basis? What areas of the city are unfamiliar or overlooked by cultural artists? The project administrators ought to address specific social groups in their research and conception phase - by visiting socially underprivileged city districts, clubs, companies, etc.
Funding will be granted to theatre projects which examine the urban and social reality of their cities in an artistically exceptional way. If possible, the project's results should be presented in the "large auditorium" or "big stage" in the theatre. The goal of HOME GAME is to fund projects which will get new circles of the public interested in theatre and encourage everyone involved to examine the role of (city) theatre in Germany.
Playing on the home turf, the fans are sitting in the audience rooting for their team, and all the players are fighting to win for their hometown - that's what HOME GAME is all about.
The programme runs until 2013. The last submission deadline ended 30 April 2011.
Funded projects in HOME GAME - Fund for Theatre Projects
Projects awarded funding at the 11th jury session on 27 June 2011:
Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt: Die Spur der Steine in Schwedt
Premiere: 17. June 2012
Theater Dortmund: Crashtest Nordstadt
Premiere: 1. March 2012
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe: Der Gastfreund / Die Argonauten
Premiere: 30. June 2012
Theaterhaus Jena: The Voice
Premiere: 29. February 2012
Theater Oberhausen: Schwarzbank: Kohle für alle!
Premiere: March 2012
Landesbühne Sachsen-Anhalt: Vom Rande in die Mitte
Premiere: October 2011
Jury: Olaf Kröck, dramaturge, Schauspiel Essen; Tobias Rausch, writer and director, lunatiks, Berlin; Tobias Wellemeyer (Generalintendant Theater Magdeburg)
Projects awarded funding at the 10th jury session on 20 December 2010:
Theater Rudolstadt: Entfaltungen
Premiere: 30. September 2011
Stadttheater Bremerhaven: Verzögerte Heimkehr
Premiere: 19. March 2011
Theater der Altmark, Stendal: Angst (frei)
3. - 11. September 2011
Puppentheater der Stadt Magdeburg: ... zu neuen Ufern
Premiere: 18. June 2011
Jury: Olaf Kröck, dramaturge, Schauspiel Essen; Tobias Rausch, writer and director, lunatiks, Berlin; Tobias Wellemeyer (Generalintendant Theater Magdeburg)
Projects awarded funding at the 9th jury session on 31 March 2010:
Anhaltisches Theater Dessau: Schwarzweiß
Premiere: 10. June 2011
Schauspiel Hannover: Republik Freies Wendland - reaktiviert
Premiere: 18. September 2010
Theater Heilbronn: Wohnzeit
Premiere: June 2011
Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin: Die Hofmeister
Premiere: 4. June 2011
Jury: Olaf Kröck, dramaturge, Schauspiel Essen; Tobias Rausch, writer and director, lunatiks, Berlin; Tobias Wellemeyer (Generalintendant Theater Magdeburg)
Projects awarded funding at the 8th jury session on 14 December 2009:
Theater Dortmund: Heimat unter Erde. Von der Grube auf die Halde?
Premiere: 14. January 2011
Münchner Kammerspiele: Munich Central
Premiere: 4. June 2010
Theater Vorpommern: Moondog
Premiere: 10. July 2010
Junge Akteure / Theater Bremen: Open Space_Open Heard_Open Mind
Premiere: 28. May 2010
Theater Oberhausen: Abseitsfalle
Premiere: 1. February 2010
Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord: Schlicksoldaten. Theater aus dem Alltag Wilhelmshavener Marinesoldaten
Premiere: June 2010
Jury: Olaf Kröck, dramaturge, Schauspiel Essen; Tobias Rausch, writer and director, lunatiks, Berlin; Tobias Wellemeyer, general manager Theater Magdeburg
Projects awarded funding at the 7th jury session on 29 June 2009:
Theater Freiburg: Der Rap des Nibelungen
Premiere: 8 June 2010
Deutsches Theater Berlin: The Poor Maiden Monsters
Premiere: 30 April 2010
Niedersächsische Staatstheater Hannover GmbH: Trollmanns Kampf
Premiere: 30 April 2010
Anhaltisches Theater Dessau: Funk - Das Stadttheater als Sende- und Empfangsapparat
Premiere: September 2009
Jury: Olaf Kröck, dramaturge, Schauspiel Essen; Tobias Rausch, writer and director, lunatiks, Berlin; Tobias Wellemeyer, general manager, Theater Magdeburg
Projects awarded funding at the 6th jury session on 15 December 2008:
Schauspiel Frankfurt: Remake :: Rosemarie
Premiere: 16 December 2009
Deutsches Theater in Göttingen: Stadt in Zukunft
Premiere: 1 October 2009
Thalia Theater Halle: Ultras
Premiere: 18 September 2009
Theaterhaus Jena: Der Dritte Weg. Eine theatrale Demonstration
Premiere: 28 October 2009
Staatstheater Kassel: Raumbefragung: Posen für die Macht. Ein TanzTheaterProjekt von Sabine Simon
Premiere: 16 May 2009
Puppentheater der Stadt Magdeburg: "…… vor Anker"
Premiere: 19 June 2009
Jury: Nuran Calis, writer and director: urbanstories, Schauspiel Hannover and homestories, Schauspeil Essen; Matthias Lilienthal, artistic and executive director, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin;Tobias Wellemeyer, intendant, Theater Magdeburg.
Projects awarded funding at the 5th jury session on 6 June 2008:
Staatsschauspiel Dresden: Alles Auf Anfang!
Premiere in spring 2010
Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen: Eichbaum-Oper
Premiere: June 2009
Theater Oberhausen: Klima-Talk. Oberhausen
Premiere: 5 June 2009
Jury: Nuran Calis, writer and director: urbanstories, Schauspiel Hannover and homestories, Schauspiel Essen; Matthias Lilienthal, artistic and executive director, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin; Tobias Wellemeyer, intendant, Theater Magdeburg.
Projects awarded funding at the 4th jury session on 17 December 2007:
Theater Magdeburg: projekt mögliche welten
Premiere: 15 February 2008
Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater Bautzen: Antigone in Bautzen
Premiere: 9 May 2009
Staatstheater Nürnberg: ArbeitsEnde: Gestern
Premiere: 24 October 2008
Jury: Thomas Bockelmann, Staatstheaer Kassel; Nuran Calis, director and writer, Munich; Matthias Lilienthal, general director of the Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater Berlin.
Projects awarded funding at the 3rd jury session on 22 May 2007:
Niedersächsisches Staatstheater Hannover: Tacheles / Klartext
Premiere: 10 April 2008
Münchner Kammerspiele: Illegal - Das unsichtbare Leben
Premiere: 20 June 2008
Thüringer Landestheater Rudolstadt: <Lebens>|<Zeichen>
Premiere: 1 May 2008
Theater Vorpommern: SCHICHT C - Eine Stadt und die Energie
Premiere: 2 October 2008
Jury: Thomas Bockelmann, Staatstheaer Kassel; Nuran Calis, director and writer, Munich; Matthias Lilienthal, general director of the Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater Berlin.
Projects awarded funding at the 2nd jury session on 22 January 2007:
Puppentheater Magdeburg: Schöne Aussicht - Geschichte(n) von Tür zu Tür
Premiere: 9 June 2007
Staatstheater Stuttgart / Schauspiel Stuttgart: Irrfelsen Stuttgart
Premiere: 16 June 2007
Nationaltheater Mannheim: Pimp the City
Premiere: 5 June 2007
Theater an der Parkaue: Dynamoland
Premiere: 22 October 2007
Westfälische Kammerspiele Paderborn: Ophelias Schattentheater
Premiere: 6 October 2007
Stadttheater Konstanz: Troya - Ithaka - Konstanz
Premiere: 15 March 2008
Jury: Thomas Bockelmann, Staatstheaer Kassel; Nuran Calis, director and writer, Munich; Matthias Lilienthal, general director of the Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater Berlin.
Projects awarded funding at the 1st jury session on 15 May 2006:
Theater Aachen: Der Mensch sucht's, Gott gibt's
Premiere: 3 May 2007
Theater und Philharmonie Essen: Glaube Liebe Hoffnung
Premiere "Glaube": 27 January 2007,
"Liebe": 16 March 2007, "Hoffnung": 29 April 2007
Schauspiel Frankfurt: "Die Familie Schroffenstein", Projekt nach Heinrich von Kleist
Premiere: 29 March 2007
Mittelsächsisches Theater und Philharmonie Freiberg und Döbeln
Spielplätze - Das Theater in der Stadt: Discotheater
Premiere Döbeln: 23 November 2006, Freiberg: 22 December 2006
Theater Freiburg: Orbit + Freiburg Mitte
since: 15 September 2006
Musiktheater Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien Görlitz: Radio Babylon
Premiere: 3 May 2008
Thalia Theater Halle: Opferpopp
Premiere: 23 March 2007
Thalia Theater Hamburg: Glück in Hamburg - Stadtnotizen
Premiere "Stadtnotizen 1": 14 November 2006,
"Stadtnotizen 3": 20 February 2007
Theater und Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Heidelberg: Das neue Wunderhorn
Premiere: 21 July 2007
Stadttheater Hildesheim: Wunschpavillon
since: 27 September 2006
Theater Lindenhof Melchingen: Leonce und Lena
Premiere: 13 March 2007
Schlosstheater Moers: Mit-Esser
Premiere: 12 May 2007
Neue Bühne Senftenberg: OSL lebt
Premiere: 8 November 2006
Staatsoper Stuttgart: Zeitoper III: Bunker
Premiere: 8 June 2007
Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar: My god rides a skateboard
Premiere: 20 April 2007
Jury: Thomas Bockelmann, Staatstheaer Kassel; Nuran Calis, director and writer, Munich; Matthias Lilienthal, general director of the Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater Berlin.
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HOME GAME 2011
In order to bundle the experience gained from the 50 projects financed through the Home Game fund and to initiate a discussion about the current developments in the German theatre scene, an event titled HOME GAME 2011, organized in cooperation with the Schauspielhaus Cologne, will present various theatre formats which appeal to both professionals and the general public. For more information about the theatre festival, symposium, workshops and much more, visit:














