Hosts: Katharina Rösch and Henning Bochert
Guests: Anne Bérélowitch, Dora Cheng, Mîrza Metîn
23 October 2023, 10am-6pm
Venue: Refugio, Berlin, Lenaustraße 3-4, 12047 Berlin
In 2021, Drama Panorama first organised a workshop (followed by a public reading and talk) to explore multilingualism on stage as part of the panorama #1: übertheaterübersetzen series.
This time around, we will continue to investigate this extensive subject area by exploring texts in a global context, focussing on the political aspects of multilingualism. Workshop leaders, guests, and participants will propose texts which we will discuss together. The workshop will be held in German and English (other languages may appear subject to the topic).
Furthermore, we will, as we did in 2021, compile an accompanying brochure introducing more examples of texts and playwrights.
Open Call for the Workshop
The workshop will cater to around 15 participants. Participation is free of charge. We look forward to meeting interested theatre makers, translators, playwrights and other interested individuals. Please send your registration to henning.bochert@drama-panorama.com by 9 October 2023, including:
- a short introduction, a short explanation of why you are interested in the topic
- the languages you speak
- optional: your project (a short description) is very welcome, but no prerequisite, and
- optional: If you would like to discuss a multilingual theatre text as part of the workshop, please send it to us in advance
Open Call for Texts
In this context, we are looking for theatre texts and playwrights from around the world outside of Europe (or outside of the European theatre context) who work with multiple languages. We are particularly interested in multilingualism in African and Afro-diasporic theater texts, and in people from the WANA region (West Asia/North Africa) who also work with non-European languages.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and messages at: henning.bochert@drama-panorama.com
Katharina Rösch is a dramaturg and has worked for Schauspiel Essen since the 2023/24 season. She previously worked internationally as a freelance dramaturg in Istanbul and Cape Town. She is a member of Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung und Theater e. V.
Photo: Thomas Köster
Henning Bochert is an author and dramaturg, and has been translating between English and German for over 25 years, including works by Susan Glaspell, Dawn King, Carlos Murillo and George Brant. He runs a translation agency and is involved with several organisations, including Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung und Theater e. V., raum4-netzwerk für künstlerische alltagsbewältigung e. v., Weltlesebühne e. V..
Photo: Elmar Engels
Anne Berelowitch is the artistic director of Cie l’instant même (France) and Instant MIX Theater Lab (Europe and beyond). She has been directing and / or writing for the theater for more than twenty years. She is mostly a practitioner, but is interested in verbalizing and conceptualizing, which is why she works in close collaboration with researchers (especially in translation studies). She is also a teacher and has created specific methods to train actors and directors in bi-multilingual performance, and teach languages through theatre practice.
Photo: private
Mîrza Metîn studied dramaturgy, theatre criticism and dramatic writing at Istanbul University. His writing adventure started in Turkish (the language of his education), to which he later added Kurdish (his mother tongue) which he started to learn in 2001. He wrote in both languages for a long time. Now he prefers to write only in Kurdish. Of the eighteen texts he has written to date, sixteen have been staged. Some of his texts have been translated into Zaza, Turkish, German, English, French and Hungarian and some of them published in Turkey, France, Germany, Finland, and the United States. He has been invited to many festivals such as the PEN World Voices International Playwrights Festival in New York and the Welt/Bühne Festival in Munich.
Image: Biba Kayewich
Dora Yuemin Cheng, a trilingual playwright, works and lives in Berlin, Beijing and Shanghai.
Born and raised in Nanjing, China, she holds a B.A. in Dramatic Writing from Shanghai Theatre Academy and an M. A. in the Visual Language of Performance from Wimbledon College of Art. Her Chinese plays have been read or performed in several cities in China.
In 2021, the Junges Nationaltheater Mannheim’s production of Qingdao: a messy archive, on which she worked as a dramaturg, was nominated for Best Play by nachtkritik.de. Her multilingual play Epiphanie 顿悟 was shortlisted for the Stückemarkt at Theatertreffen 2022.
Photo: Annika Nagel
Supported by the Deutscher Übersetzerfonds.
