Dear audiences, dear old and new friends of the German
Theatre, after this tumultuous period we draw the line and we are happy to
announce the end of TGST's 69th season.
The end of the 2021/2022 season culminated with the
participation of the production "Katzelmacher. If it wouldn’t be about
love" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, directed by Eugen Jebeleanu, on July 1st
at the Sibiu International Theatre
Festival FITS with a resounding
national echo.
Despite the pandemic restrictions and the difficult period
we all went through, this closed season counted six premieres and two revivals,
and audiences were able to watch the 56 performances that have been presented
on the German Theatre's stage since October 2021. We also had an online
participation in the National
Theatre Festival FNT in Bucharest
with the performance "Après Ski - Quiet up here!" and "V.I.P. -
Very Isolated Person". Same for the Off Europa Festival in
Leipzig, Germany, where we presented the performance "V.I.P. - Very
Isolated Person" Live on ZOOM. Furthermore, we had a collaboration with TARTproduktion Stuttgart, Germany on the production of "Stage
Identities" which completed the 69th season.
A few weeks ago, the Timișoara City Council approved the
transfer of use of a property in the Fabric district (next to Radio Timișoara
House) to GSTT for the next 49 years. In the coming years, a second hall for
the German Theatre will be set up there, which will mainly provide a
development space for contemporary dramaturgy and new forms of theatre.
The German State Theatre Timișoara was also the partner or
host of the guest performances "The
Mountaineers of Caldeirão",
exercises in fictional anthropology, "On
the steps of the wind" - a
lyrical-musical performance with poems by Rolf Bossert, "The Last Raid of HumanKind", a performance by the contemporary dance troupe "Contemporary Creative Dreamers" and "Synergies.
Stylistic Interactions" (a
performance by the German acting department of the Faculty of Music and Theatre
of UVT). As usual, the German Theatre supported the younger generation by being
involved in the organization of the jubilee edition of the "NiL & friends Theatre Weekend", on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the
founding of the NiL theatre group of the "Nikolaus Lenau" high
school. In collaboration with TGST, NiL theatre groups have participated
several times in festivals in Croatia.
Related events such as Artist Talk with the group Marginals: "30 years later" and "Artist
Talk. Humans for Sale" with
historian Mădălin Hodor and director Carmen Lidia Vidu, together with talks
with the public organized on the occasion of various performances of the German
Theatre, have succeeded in bringing the public back close to the German State
Theatre in Timișoara. Last but not least, GSTT's bimonthly podcast „Ne auzim până ne vedem" has launched another 11 episodes that
everyone can listen to.
Furthermore, last season we were joined by new artistic
colleagues - Aida Olaru and Robert Bogdanov-Schein. Also, Enikő Blénessy
returned at GSTT after a break of several years.
The 2022/2023 season will start on 28 August 2022 in the unconventional spaces of the Fabric district with the
premiere of the performance The
Parallel City, by Ștefan Peca,
directed by Ana Mărgineanu, in collaboration with the Cultural Association
"Diogene" and the Hungarian State Theatre "Csiky Gergely"
Timișoara. After a 5-year break, the EUROTHALIA
European Theatre Festival returns
to the stage of the German State Theatre Timișoara, from 21-29 September 2022, for its eighth edition, which will focus on the
theme "Confrontations". Also, we scheduled in 28 October the premiere of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard", staged by the Austrian guest director Volker
Schmidt.
Many thanks to all the audience for their loyalty, as well
as to our funders, partners, and friends for their support and attention to the
German State Theatre Timișoara this season. We wish you a peaceful summer and
hope to see you back in good health and with newfound strength for the 70th
season of the GSTT!