Forum Of Young European Playwrights

The FORUM OF YOUNG EUROPEAN PLAYWRIGHTS offers the opportunity to work in an English and a German speaking workshop during the festival, to attend the invited productions, to exchange ideas and experiences and to participate in discussions with 20 young authors from all over Europe. In the past years the workshops were led by the playwrights Biljana Srbljanovic, Thomas Jonigk, Bernhard Studlar, Mark Ravenhill and Theresia Walser.
The results of the workshops are presented to the public within the festival´s program.

The English workshop 2012 will be conducted by Tena Štivičić. The internationally known playwright and festival´s patron for Croatia was participant of the Drama-Workshop of Biljana Srbljanovic at NEW PLAYS FROM EUROPE 2002 in Bonn. At the Biennale of 2008 her play „Fireflies“ was invited.
Mark Ravenhill, who was announced as the leader of this year´s English workshop until now, unfortunately had to cancel due to his obligations at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Martin Heckmanns will conduct the German speaking workshop for the second time. He has been writing plays for more than 10 years, and his works are frequently performed at the largest theatres in the German-speaking region. His most renowned works include “The Wonderful Neither This Not That”, “Sack”, and “A Man Comes Into the World”. Heckmanns has worked as an instructor and mentor at the Berlin University of Arts, for the Burgtheater´s workshop festival Werkstatttage and for the Swiss workshop program Dramenprozessor. He now serves as dramaturge and author in residence at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, where his most recent play, “Vater Mutter Geisterbahn” premiered last May.

The participants of this year´s German workshop are:

Johannes Becker (D)
Michel Decar (D)
Karl Wolfgang Flender (D)
Valerie Kattenfeld (A)
Clemens Mädge (D)
Anna Papst (CH)
Stefan Reiser (A)
Nora Schüssler (D)
Marianne Strauhs (A)
Claudia Tondl (A)

The participants of this year´s English workshop are:

Jim Ashilevi (EST)
Simona Hamer (SLO)
Anna Wakulik (PL)
Julie Maj Jakobsen (DK)
Darius Lukas Piraitis (LT)
Marta Buchaca (E)
Dino Pešut (HR)
Ailís Ní Ríain (IRL)
Agnese Rutkēviča (LV)
Jibbe Willems (NL)

The FORUM OF YOUNG EUROPEAN PLAYWRIGHTS is supported by the GOETHE-INSTITUTE and the EUROPEAN THEATRE CONVENTION (ETC). It is taking place in the facilities of the Berlitz Language Center Wiesbaden