Das war das Festival 2023

30.6. – 3.7.2023

With the festival “Neue Zeit, neue Dramatik 2023” the Münchner Kammerspiele presented an international young generation of playwrights to their audience. Four authors and a collective of authors were guests in a residency that culminated in a Long Night of New Drama on July 1, 2023 and the awarding of the Munich Prize for New Drama to Matthias van den Höfel for his play “Drinnen”. We congratulate him very warmly! We would also like to congratulate the author Paula Kläy for the Audience Award for her play “Oberland”.

As part of the festival “Neue Zeit, neue Dramatik” (New Time, New Drama), we also presented texts in readings and installations by authors who have a close connection with the Münchner Kammerspiele through their previous works. At Werkaum we showed “Opera - A Future Game,” a post(operatic)-apocalyptic video game essay by Michael von zur Mühlen with music by Ole Hübner and texts by Thomas Köck. Habibi Kiosk featured the new text by Allex. (Liat) Fassberg (Förderpreis 2021) “My naked existence” could be seen and heard.

With readings, performances, an installation and the award ceremony of the “Münchner Förderpreis für Dramatik” endowed with 10,000 euros, this weekend was all about the Theater der Stadt München as a production site for contemporary literature and its publication.

The Münchner Förderpreis für neue Dramatik, endowed with a total of 10,000 euros, is awarded jointly by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, Drei Masken Verlag and the Münchner Kammerspiele. The prize money is donated by the Edith and Rieder Foundation.