Since 1978, Stückemarkt has been part of the Theatertreffen festival in Berlin, and one of the most renowned initiatives for promoting contemporary playwriting and performance art in German-speaking countries.
In keeping with its 2022 motto ‘What is the future worth (to us)?’, Stückemarkt is looking for theatre texts and performance works that have the courage to create outlines for a possible future and to find aesthetics and artistic approaches that enable us to experience both utopian and dystopian worlds. Who will we be once the present is over?
Stückemarkt’s international jury of artists will select five works from among all applications. These works will be presented in an appropriate artistic form or introduced in an adequate form of presentation in the context of Theatertreffen in May 2022. One of the invited artists or groups will be awarded the Stückemarkt commission of work, funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb). The commission comes with a sum of €10,000 dedicated to the production of a new work with a partner theatre in Germany. The 2022 partner theatre involved in the realisation of the commission is Schauspiel Leipzig.
The five applicants invited to Stückemarkt will participate in a programme of exchange events and talks as well as showing their work. Accommodation and travel costs are covered. The festival itself will run 6-22 May 2022.
Stückemarkt is in search of new forms of authorship and innovative theatre languages. In this open international competition, both authors and theatre collectives can apply. Since many different forms of authorship can result in an artistic work, theatre texts and projects – e.g. site specific projects, theatrical interventions, projects in the digital realm – may be submitted as well as performances based on documentary material and located at the interface of diverse artistic disciplines. The organisers are particularly interested in authors and artists who apply an extended concept of authorship to explore new narratives and perspectives and to develop innovative, world-building languages.
