The highest of German decorations in literature bears his name: On February 19th 2012 we remember the 175th anniversary of the death of the poet, scientist and revolutionary Georg Büchner; on October 17th 2013 we honor his birth.
In celebration of these anniversaries, numerous cultural activities are planned in his homeland in 2012/13. One of those is the one-week Büchner-Festival presenting international guest performances in spring 2013 at the Stadttheater Giessen. Other theatres of Hessen shall be integrated by subsequent showings at their locations.

The Büchner-Festival will accompany the Hessische Theatertage, an annual festival with theatres from all over Hessen showing a selection of their plays which in 2013 will be organized by the Stadttheater Giessen as well. So over the course of one week a wide range of theatre-languages and -forms revolving around Büchner shall be presented and inspire exchange.
On this behalf, we are looking for international theatre-projects to / about / with / inspired by Büchner and his work. More than in "classical" dramatic stagings of his texts, we are interested in approaches with a background of performance, dance, music-theatre, documentary theatre, as well as cross-border ones. Or a foreign-language view of the intercultural. Science, medicine, human rights, history, revolution, fragment, document/fiction, nerves, insanity, subjectivity ... these are just some of the headwords, one can connect with Büchner. Thus lecture performances are just as conceivable as audio-walks – or dramatic pastiches.

Projects have to be shown already or at least be in preparation; date of premiere has to be in the first half of 2012.

Please email applications with CV, photos, videos, critiques, technical rider (as attachment or link) or hints about projects, you have seen.

Or send it to:

Stadttheater Gießen
Büchner-Festival
Postfach 11 11 28
D-35356 Gießen