Sunday, 29 June 2025, 8 pm, Theater unterm Dach
Tomáš Ráliš: Ausgewohnt (working title, orig. Vyhubyt, translated from Czech by Maira Neubert)
– (a grotesque reckoning with the gentrified housing market and the housing shortage for the young generation, the play received the Ewald Schorm Award in 2023)
Hana D. Lehečková: Trollmama (orig. Trollí matka, translated from Czech by Barbora Schnelle)
– (dystopian play by the young, renowned prose writer dealing with the effect of manipulative content on social media on the individual user)
David Košťák: Die vergegossene Milchstraße (working title, orig. Nad rozlitou mléčnou dráhou, translated from Czech by Martina Lisa)
– (a poetic play about the relationship between an immature father and an aging daughter, time having escaped them like stardust running through their fingers)
Staged readings (of abridged versions) followed by a panel discussion with the playwrights and translators
Readings directed by: Eberhard Köhler
Stage and costume design: Danila Korogodsky
Cast: Thea Rasche, Hannah Ley, Niklas Brubach, Henning Bochert
Press release in German as PDF
Press release in Czech as PDF
Tomáš Ráliš (*1997) studied theatre directing at the Theatre Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague. He has received numerous awards in the Czech Republic and internationally for his productions and plays. For example: first place three times in a row (2020-22) in the renowned drama competition ‘Ewald Schorm Prize’; in 2023, he took second place with Vyhubyt, which he staged in the same year at Studio Beseda in Hradec Králové; with the radio play version of his play Sleduj! (Follow!) about YouTubers and influencers won the student prize and third place in the drama category at the Prix Bohemia Radio 2023 radio play festival. Also in 2023, he was named ‘Talent of the Year 2023’ at the Czech Theatre Critics’ Awards. In 2025, the German-speaking commission of Eurodram selected this play for presentation at the playwrights’ festival in Graz and at the festival Stück für Stück in Mannheim. Drama Panorama presented his award-winning play Sorex in the translation by Maira Neubert for the first time at the New Translations of International Drama Festival in 2023.
Foto: Patrik Borecký
Hana D. Lehečková (*1990) is a Czech literary editor, writer and playwright. She studied theory and criticism at the Theatre Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague. She made her debut as a playwright in 2012 when she won the Švandovo divadlo drama competition, which subsequently staged her play V(ý)chod. She has written radio plays such as Johana a továrna na sny (Engl. Johana and the Dream Factory) and Co se stalo se Zuzanou (Engl. What Happened to Susanne), among others. For her psychotic novel Svatá hlava (2019, published in German as Das heilige Haupt, translation Hana Hadas, Homunculus Verlag, 2022), she received the Jiří Orten Prize in 2020, a prestigious Czech prize for young authors under 30. She also became known for her autobiographical novel Poupátka (Engl. Buddings, 2021), which deals with child abuse in a theatre group. Lehečková also writes children’s books and works as a playwright with many independent theatres in the Czech Republic. Her play Trollí matka (Engl. Troll Mama) was created for Prague’s Divadlo Letí (première 2018).
Foto: Ondřej Dolejší
David Košťák (*1991) studied theory and criticism at the Theatre Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in Prague. He is artistic director of the Malé divadlo (Little Theatre) in South Bohemia and dramaturge of the independent Divadlo Letí (Letí Theatre) in Prague. As a dramaturge, he has also worked with the Švandovo divadlo (Švanda Theatre), the Divadlo Petra Bezruče (Petr Bezruče Theatre) and the drama and opera department of the Jihočeské divadlo (South Bohemian Theatre). His plays include post-dramatic texts such as Taxistyx, Srdce patří za mříže (Engl. The Heart Belongs Behind Bars), chamber music relationship dramas such as Nad rozlitou mléčnou dráhou (Engl. The Spilled Milky Way), Lajka vzhůru letí (Engl. Lajka Flies High), the radio western for teenagers Tahle země není pro mladý (Engl. No Country for Young People) and many more.
Foto: Hector Rodriguez
Part of the Ein Stück: Tschechien 2025 Festival
The festival Ein Stück: Tschechien 2025 is an event by Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung und Theater e. V. in cooperation with the Czech Center Berlin and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin. Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery, the German-Czech Future Fund and Dilia z. s. Supported by Theater unterm Dach.
