Congratulations! This award sets an example: Ulrike Schwab receives the MORTIER NEXT GENERATION award. No prize focuses so clearly on the vision of a different, perhaps new music theater as this internationally renowned award in memory of the great music theater mastermind and enabler Gerald Mortier. What a compelling choice!

… and we have ours too!  In Hohenpfaffenberg-Siegertsbrunn, the provincial small town from Eine Stimme für Deutschland, we follow the fierce fight of the Green Party’s Regula Hartmann-Hagenbeck against Alina Deutschmann, the top candidate of the local New Right.

A year (almost) without theater. No acting, no singing, no dancing, no music. Silence in front of, on and behind the stage. Because culture is not a nice accessory in our society, but a staple, the Friends of the Berlin Theaters have started the initiative #kulturhungrig: All friends and the audience of the theaters, opera houses and concert halls to call, write, perform, and beam the expression of their anticipation of an imminent opening to the world …