14.05.2020
WEINGARTEN/BERLIN – Further grandiose success for the UK theatre group of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule: With their piece “Roller in the Roggen”, the ensemble around its makers Alex Niess (Theater Ravensburg) and Thorsten Mühl (KABRos Foundation) has received the German Amateur Theatre Prize in the category "Children's and/or Youth Theatre" in the category in the category in the "Children's and/or youth theatre".
The prize jury honours a total of productions in four categories, which exemplify the quality of the amateur theatre. In addition to the "Children's and/or youth theatre", the categories "Schauspiel", "Senior Theatre" and "Staging in Rural Space" are awarded. In an online festival, the award winners will be held from 10 to 13 February. September 2020 honored. During the festival, the audience awards in the category “Theatre is Life!” the fifth prize.
“Making a selection of 167 applications is not easy – especially not when you look at the considerable quality of many productions,” said Frank Grünert, chairwoman of the at thearena chairman and vice president of the Federal Association of German Amateur Theatre (BDAT). He is therefore also thanking the expert jury, which was chaired by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Veronika Darian (University of Leipzig) had the difficult task of determining the award winners from twelve pre-selected nominations. The selection shows a range of creative potential that will be brought to the stage in German amateur theatre.
The award-winning productions are also exemplary for what is possible in the amateur theatre. The multimedia, political and humorous road movie “Roller in Rye” shows how the strengths of an entire ensemble can be staged artistically convincingly and inclusive. The story: A group of young adults breaks out of a dormitory and to England – but where they never arrive.
“What this group has to offer in terms of playing pleasure and precision, confident handling of various media, stage presence and interaction is great,” writes Dr. Birte Werner, programme director of the Divender Arts at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel, in her laudatory speech. Most players in the UK Theatre depend on a wheelchair, many of them use talkers to make themselves understood. “The work has found artistically convincing ways to offer space for all performing space, in which they can both present their very different strengths and as an ensemble shine together,” Werner emphasized.
Text: Foundation KBZO
Kommentar hinzufügen
Kommentare