NEWSLETTER 01 / 2024

Dear readers, friends and colleagues,

Once more, we would like to wish you all a happy and, above all, peaceful New Year. We hope you were able to use the short winter break to take a deep breath. Unfortunately, the challenges of these days have not diminished in the meantime and for many, even taking a deep breath has become a denied privilege. This makes it all the more important that we continue the work on and for our democratic values.

The ITI is currently looking for theater translators for the International Workshop as part of the Mülheim Theatre Days 2024, applications can be submitted until February 15. The consulting service at touring artists has already resumed, and the upcoming Monthly Meet-Up on January 29 invites actors and interested parties from the games industry in particular to network and exchange ideas. Furthermore there are new dates for the monthly LESERAUM in 2024. And as always we are sharing some updates, events and calls from our network.

Your ITI Team

ITI UPDATES

touring artists Monthly Meet-Up: Games
29 Januar, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Zoom
The independent games industry is a rapidly developing sector, and Berlin is one of its vibrant centers. The field is not only interesting for programmers, but also for artists, especially designers, visual artists, writers, musicians and composers. We have invited guests from the scene who can provide insights into their own work experiences. How do you get in touch with game producers? How can you gain experience? What challenges do the different fields of work entail?

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Open Call Theater Übersetzen: 25th International Workshop Mülheim
From May 17 - 26, 2024, the ITI, together with the Mülheimer Theatertage and with the support of Goethe-Institut, invites translators of German-language drama to the international workshop in Mülheim.
We are looking for professional drama translators and young professionals worldwide who translate from German into their native language and maintain close working relationships with theaters in their respective countries. This year, we would particularly like to invite translators from China to apply. Goethe-Institut is offering to cover the full travel costs for up to three participants from China.

Deadline: 15. Februar 2024

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LESERAUM: Dates for the new year
February 14, 2024, 4:00 - 5:30 with Felicia Zeller & Ulrike Syha
Recent texts from the field of contemporary German-language drama are presented in the LESERAUM. The participants will read excerpts from each text together and then discuss the text itself and the possibilities of translating it into other languages. The event takes place free of charge via Zoom.

The next LESERAUM dates are: March 6, April 3, May 8 and June 5, 2024 with Dirk Laucke, Magdalena Schrefel and Raphaela Bardutzky, among others.

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VERANSTALTUNGEN

January 18, 2024, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, online (German)
Performing Arts Program Berlin: Our Path to the Archive - Information Event on the Digital Archive of the Independent Performing Arts
Anyone who wants to archive their own practice and would like to know how their own holdings should be prepared for this, and whether an application for a pilot project for a digitization project could even be considered, is cordially invited to the information event.

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January 18, 2024, from 3:00 pm, Hebbel am Ufer HAU2
tanz:digital: Watch-Explore-Connect
tanz:digital is the new online platform for dance and digital media in the German-speaking world. For the launch, researchers, mediators and artists will come together at HAU for video and photo art, screenings, public tryouts and performances that convey choreographic robotics and augmented realities, among other things.

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January 25, 2024, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, online
IETM Innovative Culture Policy Event on Climate justice
This year's IETM Policy Event will focus on new research on climate justice and the performing arts: "Climate Justice: Through the Creative Lens of the Performing Arts".

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AUSSCHREIBUNGEN

ITI Cyprus: Open Call International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama 2024
Proposals are welcome from theater groups or individuals, national and international, to participate in the 27th edition of the "International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama". The festival will take place in Cyprus from late June to early August 2024 and will be organized by the Ministry of Culture of Cyprus together with the ITI Cyprus and the Ministry of Tourism.

Application deadline: January 17, 2024
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Dachverband Tanz: Open Call German Dance Award (Deutscher Tanzpreis)
The Deutscher Tanzpreis honors outstanding personalities of dance in Germany and current positions in dance. The jury selects the award winners and honorees on the basis of the proposals submitted. Proposals can be submitted online.

Deadline: January 19, 2024
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Kulturstiftung des Bundes: Call for proposals "Fund Zero"
The program supports institutions from various disciplines in the production of climate-neutral art and cultural projects. It is aimed at institutions and actors who are already familiar with the practice of ecological sustainability and at the same time are willing to take part in research on climate-friendly alternatives for cultural production.

Application deadline: January 24, 2024
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Zimbabwe Theater Academy: Open call for participants
The Zimbabwe Theater Academy invites artists, theater makers and performers to participate in the International Physical Theatre & Dance Immersive from August 18 to 31, 2024 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Further information and application to admissions@zimtheatreacademy.co.zw.

Application deadline: January 31, 2024

Bratislava Theatre Institute: Call for papers for Nová dráma
The Bratislava Theatre Institute (Slovak Center of the ITI) will host the Nová dráma/New Drama Festival 2024 from 13 to 18 May 2024. One of the most important parts of the festival is the international conference on May 15-16, 2024 under the theme "Philanthropy in the Performing Arts". Conference papers (max. 200 words) and CVs (max. 100 words) can be submitted to daria.feherova@theatre.sk.

Application deadline: January 31, 2024
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Theatertreffen der Jugend: Open Call for young dancers and theater makers
The Theatertreffen der Jugend will take place from June 1 to 8, 2024 at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and is looking for theater experiments and plays by young theater makers. Whether classical narrative forms, works from the field of performance or experiments with theater - all formats are welcome. In addition to school groups and theater youth clubs, independent ensembles can also apply.

Deadline: January 31, 2024
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Theatertreffen: Open Call for the Theatertreffen Blog 2024
The Berliner Festspiele's Theatertreffen is now looking for editors for the Theatertreffen-Blog 2024. The Theatertreffen-Blog's Open Call is aimed at aspiring cultural journalists, authors and theater enthusiasts who would like to accompany and critically reflect on the Theatertreffen 2024. Reporting can go beyond traditional text forms and is equally open to audio, text and social media formats.

Application deadline: February 11, 2024
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Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater (BDAT): amarena amateur theater prize competition
For the eighth time, the BDAT is awarding the nationwide amarena prize. Prize money totaling an estimated 10,000 euros will be awarded. All non-professional performing arts ensembles with productions that premiered or will premiere between February 1, 2022 and February 1, 2024 are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: January 31, 2024
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Fonds Darstellende Künste: Applications for Konzeptionsförderung 2024 opened
The Konzeptionsförderung (concept funding) supports independent groups, ensembles and artistic collaborations in the independent performing arts that have been working successfully throughout Germany and internationally for many years in the further development of conceptual strategies over longer periods of time and outside of regular production processes. Co-financing of the requested project is required.

Application deadline: February 5, 2024
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Open Call: Dekoloniale Berlin Residencies 2024
Dekoloniale Erinnerungskultur opens the fourth call for applications for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2024 in collaboration with Contemporary And (C&). Artists, architects, designers, directors, photographers, (fashion) designers or activists are invited to apply for a 6-month residency from May to November 2024, focusing on the colonial past of various monuments and places in Berlin.

Application deadline: Februar 7, 2024
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Project funding 2024 of Allianz Foundation: Fixing what's broken. Together.
The Allianz Foundation is awarding project funds with a funding volume of €80,000 to €225,000. Initial project outlines are being accepted from the fields of art & culture, European civil society and climate and environment. The projects should address social divisions and ecological crises and be realized by at least two equal partners. Transdisciplinary and transnational applications are particularly welcome.

Application deadline: February 7, 2024
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Open Call UNIDRAM 2024: 30th International Theater Festival Potsdam
UNIDRAM will once again present an extensive program of diverse theater forms from Europe from 5 to 9 November 2024. A focus will be on contemporary visual theater witch is conceived across genres. Applications for the 30th edition of the festival can be submitted now.

Application deadline: February 29, 2024
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WEITERES

Berlin Senate introduces anti-discrimination clause
In the first week of January, Berlin's cultural administration announced the introduction of an anti-discrimination clause, the recognition of which will be mandatory for publicly funded actors in the arts and cultural sector in the future.
In its current form, the clause raises many questions, not least with regard to the potential consequences for international cooperation. The Rat der Künste, among others, has published a statement with criticism and concrete suggestions for improvement. We, too, appeal for a far-sighted consideration of means in dialog with all stakeholders, in the urgently needed fight against anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination.

Deconfining / On The Move publication: “An invitation to transform your vision of the cultural mobility ethic from an African perspective”
In this contribution, author Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu places an ethic of care at the center of reflections on cultural mobility and social justice. Moving away from traditional formats, her perspective is a complement to formal advocacy work, broadening understanding and stimulating practical change within the paradigms of cultural mobility. The work was produced as part of the Deconfining project in collaboration with On the Move.

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Vacancy British Council: “Head of Arts”, Germany
The British Council in Berlin is looking for a new Head of Arts.

Application deadline: January 18, 2024
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Obituary Norbert Kentrup
On December 15, our long-time member, the director, actor and theater manager Norbert Kentrup passed away.

Born in Düsseldorf in 1949, he spent his early years with companions such as Klaus Michael Grüber, Rainer Werner Faßbinder, Kurt Hübner and Peter Palitzsch at the municipal theaters in Bremen, Frankfurt, Bochum and Zurich. In 1984 he founded the Bremer Shakespeare Company. He initiated the Globe Theatre in Neuss and the Shakespeare Globe Zentrum Deutschland, played Falstaff in the opening performance of the new London Globe Theatre in 1993 and was the only German actor to be a member of its artistic board for many years. In 2001, together with Dagmar Papula, he founded another company in Berlin: Shakespeare und Partner. He traveled, directed, gave lectures and taught. "Popular theater in the sense of 'theater for all' was a matter close to his heart," writes Renate Heitmann, Managing Director of the Bremen Shakespeare Company, in her obituary.

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