Theatertreffen 2021

The Berlin Theatertreffen is truly an Olympic event of German-language theatre. The festival invites the ten most remarkable theatre productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to Berlin in May every year.

The members of the Theatertreffen jury, Cornelia Fiedler, Wolfgang Höbel, Georg Kasch, Andreas Klaeui, Sabine Leucht, Petra Paterno and Franz Wille watched and discussed a total of 285 digital and live productions during the past 12 months and made their selection of the ten most remarkable productions:

• Automatenbüfett by Anna Gmeyner
  Director: Barbara Frey | Burgtheater Wien
• Der Zauberberg(The Magic Mountain) after Thomas Mann
  Director: Sebastian Hartmann | Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Einfach das Ende der Welt (It's only the End of the World) after Jean-Luc Lagarce
  Director: Christopher Rüping | Schauspielhaus Zürich
• Graf Öderland (Count Öderland) by Max Frisch
  Director: Stefan Bachmann | A co-production by the Theater Basel (under the artistic direction of Andreas Beck) and the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel/Residenztheater (Munich)
• Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
  Director: Anne Lenk | Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Medea* after Euripides
  Director: Leonie Böhm | Schauspielhaus Zürich
• NAME HER. Eine Suche nach den Frauen+
  Idea, concept, text and direction: Marie Schleef | A production by Marie Schleef in co-operation with the Ballhaus Ost (Berlin), the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Kosmos Theater (Vienna)
• Reich des Todes by Rainald Goetz
  Director: Karin Beier | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
• Scores That Shaped Our Friendship
  A project by and with Lucy Wilke and Paweł Duduś
• Show Me A Good Time
  Concept and direction: Gob Squad | A production by Gob Squad with HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) and La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Series (San Diego) in co-production with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main), Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg)