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The 60th Anniversary of German Centre of ITI

Activities 2014–2016 • www.iti-artistsrights.iti-.de • musictheatrenow2015.iti-germany.de Board members • www.playservice.net President: • www.tanzplattform.de Joachim Lux (Artistic Managing Director Thalia Theater Hamburg) Activities Vice Presidents: Kay Wuschek (Artistic Managing Director Theater an 2014 der Parkaue Berlin) November-December: Europe for Festivals - Festivals Bettina Sluzalek (Member of Artistic Board, for Europe (EFFE, EU-Project). ITI Germany served as Radialsystem Berlin) the German hub and was forming and organizing the national jury to rate the German festivals applying Board Members: for the European Festival Guide and the Festival Matthias Gehrt (Chief Director, Theater Krefeld - competition (www.effe.org) Mönchengladbach) Mascha Pörzgen (Professor at Hochschule für Musik 2015 und Theater Hannover) • Whole year: Music Theatre Now competition Sven Schlötcke (Member of the Artistic/ Managing • March: World Theatre Day Prize was awarded to Board, Theater an der Ruhr, Muelheim) theatre scholar, Joachim Fiebach Sophia Stepf (freelancer, Artistic Director Flinntheater, • May: Translators’ Workshop, Muelheim with 10 Kassel) participants from Argentina, Taiwan, Serbia, Belarus, Jörg Vorhaben (Chief Dramaturge, Staatstheater India, Ukraine, Poland, , Portugal and Mainz) • June: ITI Germany decided on Hamburg as the host Eberhard Wagner (freelancer) city of the Theater der Welt festival in 2017 • July: Members Annual Assembly, 3 – 5 July in Websites, info-platforms and project sites: Hanover, Open Space with ITI members on the • www.iti-germany.de future of the ITI work • www.facebook.com/iti.germany • September: Launched ITI Yearbook “Understanding • www.theaterderwelt.de – Verständigung“ • www.mimecentrum.de • October: ITI/Goethe-Institute Round Table • www.szenenwechsel.org at Kammerspiele Munich with more than 50 • www.touring-artists.info representatives of German theatres, theatre groups, • www.iti-germany.de/theaterarchive funding bodies and city administrations about the Activities German Centre of ITI (Europe) 85

ITI member Christel Gbagoudi at the 60th Anniversary of German Centre of ITI Photo by Anne John

possibilities and capacities of theatres to welcome cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation refugees in Germany. to stimulate and establish lasting international • November: Round table with EU-funded project partnerships between theatres and groups in the representatives on European cultural funding German-speaking region and partners from North programme “Creative Europe”. Structured feedback Africa or Eastern Europe. provided to the German federal government • Mime Centrum Berlin: Studio for production, • December: Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the training, open place of cooperation and German ITI centre, 26.11.2015, Berlin, Academy of international exchange. A public media library Arts offers access to extensive documentation on dance • December: ITI Germany was the organizer of the and theatre. The MCB is a permanent project of the first edition of the Federal German Theatre Prize. German ITI centre. • Membership in European networks: IETM, Culture 2016 Action Europe, ENICPA, On The Move • January-May: Music Theatre Now documentation • Membership in national networks: German of the competition and presentation of the winners, Cultural Council (Deutscher Kulturrat), nationwide while also archiving the entries. Coalition for Cultural Diversity at German UNESCO • March: World Theatre Day Prize awarded to Swiss Commission (Bundesweite Koalition Kulturelle director and author Milo Rau. Vielfalt) • April: Annual Members Meeting and board election • May: 35th World Congress Support for ITI Committees and Forums • Executive Council (Joachim Lux) Ongoing projects 2014-16 • MTC (Roland Quitt, Axel Tangerding, Christian • The Role of the Independent Theatre in Grammel), project Music Theatre Now Contemporary European Theatre: Structural and • CIDC (Matthias Gehrt, Alexander Stillmark) Aesthetic Changes”. Research project funded by • •NPG (Günther Beelitz, Frank Düwel) the International Balzan Foundation. Topic: • •Playwrights Forum (Andrea Zagorski) Forms and structures of contemporary independent • One Man Show Forum (Annette Doffin) theatre developed in Europe since the 1960s. • IFF (Corinna Bethge) • Touring Artists: Online information platform for • ACAR (Thomas Engel) touring artists in and to Germany “Touring-artists. • UNESCO-Cultural Diversity (Dieter Welke) info”, connected with a free consultancy for artists • Akt-Zent Research Centre of the ITI (Christine and groups. Schmalor, Jurij Alschitz) • Szenenwechsel: Funding programme in